Allá imagino un perfumado gabinete, una chispeante chimenea, 10 alfombras, butacas, pieles, café, ron, tabaco...; una plática tierna, descanso del placer, incentivo de más placeres...; una alcoba tibiamente alumbrada, un lecho mullido y el sueño de la felicidad....—¡Ay, mi Alejandra! — from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
attended by peculiar circumstances
The Reform Act has not placed the administration of our affairs in abler hands than conducted them previously to the passing of the measure, for the most efficient members of the present cabinet with some very few exceptions, and those attended by peculiar circumstances, were ministers before the Reform Act was contemplated. — from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
a baser principle chained
Whatever its name it abhors holiness and purity, and though the regenerate man loves Christ and His words, he does so over the vehement protest of a baser principle chained and manacled in the basement dungeon of his heart. — from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees
A shadowy conception of power that by much persuasion can be induced to refrain from inflicting harm, is the shape most easily taken by the sense of the Invisible in the minds of men who have always been pressed close by primitive wants, and to whom a life of hard toil has never been illuminated by any enthusiastic religious faith. — from Silas Marner by George Eliot
And because Pierre continued
“And because,” Pierre continued, “only one who believes that there is a God ruling us can bear a loss such as hers and... yours.” — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
[Pg vi] As to lobing or division 56 Compound , Perfoliate , and Equitant Leaves 57 With no distinction of Petiole and Blade , Phyllodia , &c. 61 § 2. Leaves of Special Conformation and Use 62 Leaves for storage 62 Leaves as bud-scales 63 Spines 64 and for Climbing 64 Pitchers 64 and Fly-traps 65 § 3. Stipules 66 § 4. — from The Elements of Botany, For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
along being pretty certain
Nevertheless, despite the good opinion in which I hold many instructors of the art, I am a very strong believer in the efficacy of self-help, and just as a novice at skating will, in spite of many sore falls and painful bruises, acquire skill if left to himself, long in advance of his brother-learner who is trusting to somebody to bring him along (being pretty certain to come down with a run whenever that “somebody” considers it expedient to let go), so, in like manner, I shall be ready to back my pupil, although I may never have seen her, to hold her position across country, in the park, by lane, street, or roadway, against the city demoiselle, who in a fashionable school has been taught to ride upon a carpet of tan, and who would be as much at sea in a crowded thoroughfare, or endeavouring to cross an intricate hunting-country, as an inexperienced vocalist would be if called upon to interpret the difficulties of Wagner or Bach. — from Riding for Ladies: With Hints on the Stable by O'Donoghue, Power, Mrs.
“I felt some strange, disklike protuberances in my dress suit the other day, but belike they are but poker chips,” said Stacy thoughtfully. — from Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte
abolished by professional councils
147 f statistics of Jewish emigration to, III 148 Hebrew writers in, III 163 University , Polish Jews study at U. of Padua, I 132 "Statute of 1804" admits Jews to Russian U's., I 345 Jewish U. graduates admitted into Russian Interior and to civil service (1861), II 166; required to possess learned degree, II 165, 167; requirement dropped (1879), II 167 Jewish U. graduates permitted to keep two Jewish servants in Russian Interior, II 166; fictitious servants of, II 344 ff Jews with U. education permitted to live in villages and own property (1904), III 98 ; [Pg 389] privilege extended to wives and children, III 99 Jewish U. students suspected of revolutionary leanings, II 348, III 28 admission of Jews to, restricted (1887), II 350; placed on Statute books (1908), III 157 f restricted admission drives Jews into foreign U's, II 351, III 31 , 158; and makes them antagonistic to Government, III 31 restricted admission to, abolished by professional councils (1905), III 124 ; restored (1907), III 152 ; placed on Statute books (1908), III 157 f See Education and School Ural , territory of, semi-civilized tribes of placed on level with Jews, II 367 Urussov , governor of Bessarabia, and later Assistant-Minister of Interior, favors mitigation of Jewish disabilities, III 93 discloses personal animosity of Nicholas II. against Jews, III 93 issues warning against pogroms, III 97 reveals in Memoirs Plehve's share in pogroms, III 97 discloses in Duma share of Russian Government in October pogroms, III 126 , 138 Ushitza , see Novaya Ushitza Ussishkin , Russian Zionist leader, III 47 Ustrugov , deputy-governor of Bessarabia, persecutes Jews, III 70 assists in arranging Kishinev massacre, VIII 71 sued by Jews, III 92 Uvarov, Sergius , Minister of Public Instruction, endeavors to spread enlightenment among Russian Jews, II 46 ff lays plans before "Jewish Committee," II 50 ff visits Lilienthal's school in Riga, II 52 negotiates with Lilienthal, II 53 instructs Lilienthal to enter into correspondence with Jewish leaders in Western Europe, II 67 petitioned by Moses Montefiore on behalf of Russian Jews, II 68 plans of, received favorably by Jews of Vilna, II 136 f See Lilienthal Valnyev , Minister of Interior, favors admission of Jewish artisans and mechanics into Russian Interior, II — from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 3 [of 3]
From the Accession of Nicholas II until the Present Day by Simon Dubnow
H2 anchor CHAPTER XLIV Experienced women are not frightened when a woman faints, or do they hastily attribute it to anything but physical causes, which they have often seen produce it. — from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
as beans pease c
Purées are merely thick soups strained carefully before serving, and made usually of some vegetable which thickens in boiling, as beans, pease, &c, though there are several forms of fish purées in which the foundation is thickened milk, to which the fish is added, and the whole then rubbed through a common sieve, if a regular purée-sieve is not to be had. — from The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking
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