What's this but libelling against the Senate, And blazoning our unjustice every where?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
2.19; a band of union, Eph.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield
But undoubtedly there are people who because they have let their dislikes deepen into prejudice, and perhaps also because of unpleasant experiences with members of the Jewish race (probably a million Americans have been brought to the verge of becoming Jew-haters this winter because of contact with Jewish merchants and landlords) may be classified as, at least, incipient anti-Semites.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous
Rapidly the pieces of armour were strapped and buckled on until Edgar stood complete, a wall of shining steel.
— from Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign by W. P. Shervill
I cheerfully volunteered to assist him, and by our united efforts, the debt was discharged instead of the rifle!
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook
But the full ecstasy of a visit to this place was only attained when I was lifted upon the vast table by the warm and rosy Amelia, and allowed to leap therefrom into her extended arms; she rushing toward me, and both of us emitting either shrill or growling noises as the psychological moment of my leap was reached.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson
Why, He hath destroyed sin and brought righteousness to light, abolished death and restored life, conquered hell and bestowed on us everlasting glory.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther
At your feet across the brown roofs of the Città Inferiore you will see the mighty walls and bastions of Urbino encircling Federigo's palace, with the dome-crowned bulk of the Cathedral on the one hand and a gracious ilex-wood upon the other; and in the midst, enshrined as it were in the panoply of war, a pleasure-house for princes, white and gold, with airy loggias opening out towards the mountains, and hanging gardens and slim tourelles, like a mediaeval castle of the Troubadour land.
— from A Little Pilgrimage in Italy by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter
And to deal with Greek religion honestly, you must at once understand that this literal belief was, in the mind of the general people, as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book; and that a basis of unmiraculous event was as little suspected, and an explanatory symbolism as rarely traced, by them, as by us.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin
Such, continued the governor, is the state of mankind; such are the unlucky accidents to which they are exposed; however, my child, added he, since we are both of us equally unfortunate, let us unite our sorrow, and not abandon one another.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous
Before we had gone very far, however, she was conscious enough to help me in some sort, and by our united efforts we at length got so far on our right way as to come in sight of the light of day, and thereafter our journey was easy.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton
First there was the old blind grey-bearded abbot, leaning on his staff, surrounded with three or four dark robed Coptic monks, holding in their hands the lighted candles with which we had explored the secret recesses of the oil-cellar; there was I dressed in the long robes of a merchant of the East, with a small book in the breast of my gown and a big one under each arm; and there were my servants armed to the teeth and laden with old books; and one and all
— from Visits to Monasteries in the Levant by Robert Curzon
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