"abiola" hidden in books

articulation by its own laws and

This Revolution Prodigy, unfolding itself into terrific stature and articulation, by its own laws and Nature's, not by the laws of Formula, has become unintelligible, incredible as an impossibility, the waste chaos of a Dream.'
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

a break in our life and

The determination of our captain had at least this good effect; it gave every one something to think and talk about, made a break in our life, and diverted our minds from the monotonous dreariness of the prospect before us.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

and bringeth it on life and

It quickeneth our soul and bringeth it on life, and maketh it for to waxen in grace and virtue.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

a better instance of love at

Seldom, it seemed, was there a better instance of love at first sight, or of the true affinity of which Baron Korff had spoken.
— from Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion. Vol 1-4, Complete by Lyndon Orr

attracted by its odoriferous leaves and

I was much attracted by its odoriferous leaves and small gray berries which are clustered about the short twigs, just below the last year's growth.
— from Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

are built in one line and

The huts are built in one line and do not touch each other, at least a cubit’s distance being left between each.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

a brief instant of lucidity as

There was a brief instant of lucidity as he approached the Furnay gates through the cabbage palms and was forced to choose a course of action.
— from Clean Break by Roger D. Aycock

and believe in our long and

Remember me to Mrs. and Miss Senior, and believe in our long and very sincere affection, A. DE TOCQUEVILLE.
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

and besides it offered little additional

Lieutenant Davis, disgusted with the perpetual attempts to escape, moved the Dead Line out forty feet from the Stockade; but this restricted our room greatly, since the number of prisoners in the pen had now risen to about six thousand, and, besides, it offered little additional protection against tunneling.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

are bound in other lands and

But Ruskin liked so little in the world, except—"that Scottish sheaves are more golden than are bound in other lands, and that no harvests elsewhere visible to human eye are so like the 'corn of heaven,' as those of Strath Tay and Strath Earn."
— from The Spell of Scotland by Keith Clark

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