They still preserved their ample buckskin seat intact; and so his short pea jacket and his long, thin legs assisted to make him a picturesque object whenever he stood on the forecastle looking abroad upon the ocean over the bows. — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
for Luther are usually thinking of
Those who to-day claim unqualified “greatness” for Luther are usually thinking of the astonishing success of his undertaking, and of his influence and that of his labours on posterity. — from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
for life An unrelenting thirst of
Thus, when unto Giovanni came a dawn That kindled to a conscious glow of health His own quick pulse, yet, warming, failed to melt The frozen current in pale Hubert's veins, Because those veins had felt the frigid touch Of steel in duelling combat, there arose Within his anguished heart a stern demand Against the murderer of life for life— An unrelenting thirst of blood, to quell The ghostly phantoms of his fevered brain, And satisfy with feast of sweet revenge His brother's manes. — from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various
foreign lands and upon the only
All this she said, and she continued: 'The birds sing up yonder, and tell of foreign lands, and upon the only decayed branch the stork has built a nest; and [117] it is a pleasure to hear of the country where the pyramids stand. — from The Sand-Hills of Jutland by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
for long after upon terms of
It is true that the Duke was, at that period and for long after, upon terms of the most "fraternal friendship" with the Prince, and was in the habit of signing himself "his very affectionate brother and cordial friend to serve him," yet this did not prevent him from accomplishing what he deemed his duty, in secretly denouncing his plans, It is also true that he, at the same time, gave the Prince private information concerning the government, and sent him intercepted letters from his enemies, thus easing his conscience on both sides, and trimming his sails to every wind which might blow. — from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley
The long stretch of white sand was almost deserted; one or two people loitered on it, and down by the water’s edge, watching the incoming tide, the solitary figure of a girl in a blue linen frock lent an unexpected touch of harmonious colour against the silvery background of sand. — from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young
frontier life and upon the other
Earlier generations—sprung, upon the one hand, from the merry gallants of a French colonial military service which had grown gross by affiliation with Spanish-American frontier life, and, upon the other hand from comely Ethiopians culled out of the less negroidal types of African live goods, and bought at the ship's side with vestiges of quills and cowries and copper wire still in their head-dresses,—these earlier generations, with scars of battle or private rencontre still on the fathers, and of servitude on the manumitted mothers, afforded a mere hint of the splendor that was to result from a survival of the fairest through seventy-five years devoted to the elimination of the black pigment and the cultivation of hyperian excellence and nymphean grace and beauty. — from Old Creole Days: A Story of Creole Life by George Washington Cable
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