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— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The same yesterday was told me by Captain Ferrers; and this morning afterwards by Dr. Clerke, who saw it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
Though cunning devices did not avail him against Bernardo del Carpio, who knew all about them, and strangled him in his arms at Roncesvalles.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
MEDLARS was a bibliographic database containing references to medical literature.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
And still as they went down they heard the little sweet voice, more and more faintly, half calling and half singing, 'Come back and be dead, Come back and be dead!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
It is easily explained how men, being perplexed by the marvellous forces upon which they feel that they depend, have been led to reflect upon them, and how they have asked themselves what these forces are and have made an effort to substitute for the obscure sensation which they primitively had of them, a clearer idea and a better defined concept.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
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— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
] Note 422 ( return ) [ See the account of the habits of this animal by Dr. Cooper, as quoted in 'Nature,' April 27, 1871, p. 512.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
On the next night, about the same hour as before, Dorothee came to Emily's chamber, with the keys of that suite of rooms, which had been particularly appropriated to the late Marchioness.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
Then everything was a blinding, deafening crash of ice and snow, wood, canvas and white bear.
— from Lost in the Air by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
Climbing Cramoisie Supérieure and Field Marshal are both deep crimson climbers, but the last does best under a glass or in a warm position out of doors.
— from Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley
Who can doubt that my resolve has been ever kept fresh in mind, by eager research for verification and by diligent communication with older survivors, and rescuers sent to our relief, who answered my many questions and cleared my obscure points?
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton
“That’ll all be drained, covered with sile and seeded down in lawns,” replied the Major quickly.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart
There's surely a better day coming.
— from Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love —William Drummond. Seek, and ye shall find.
— from Leaves of Life, for Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
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