Akuy mulikub ug batu áning agianána, bir ug kinsay muyawyaw, I will [ 609 ] put a rock in the middle of this pathway.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Young men there are who behind our backs calumniate us and before us kiss our hands, with a base smile begging kind looks from us!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal
Tom, delighted at an audience, would ramble through the “Poems and Ballades” until Kerry and Amory knew them almost as well as he.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Ang bugnà usa ka basahun sa Bag-ung Túgun nga nagsaysay sa umalábut, The Book of Revelations is a book in the New Testament that reveals s.t. about things to come.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Kings of Arms have been likewise assigned other provinces over different kingdoms and dominions, and besides Ulster King of Arms for Ireland, and Lyon King of Arms for Scotland, others were nominated for particular provinces abroad, when united to the Crown of England, such as Aquitaine ,
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies
As soon as they had greeted each other - K. had invited him to sit in the armchair but Uncle Karl had no time for that - he said he wanted to speak briefly with K. in private.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka
But he—that is, my informant—spoke as if the masters would like their hands to be merely tall, large children—living in the present moment—with a blind unreasoning kind of obedience.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
“Then it will be necessary to waken him and take him with us,” said the renegade, “and everything of value in this fair mansion.” “Nay,” said she, “my father must not on any account be touched, and there is nothing in the house except what I shall take, and that will be quite enough to enrich and satisfy all of you; wait a little and you shall see,” and so saying she went in, telling us she would return immediately and bidding us keep quiet without making any noise.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Is this too a blot upon King Lear as a stage-play?
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
Thus taught the French Academy of that time (apud Braun , Ueber Kosmogonie, 3d ed., 1905, 378 seq. ).
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat
There was a moon, an awful bitin', ugly kind of a moon grinnin' at me.
— from 'Tilda Jane: An Orphan in Search of a Home. A Story for Boys and Girls by Marshall Saunders
ESTIMATES OF THE COMPARATIVE INTELLIGENCE AND ABILITY OF CERTAIN CONSPICUOUS WILD ANIMALS, BASED UPON KNOWN PERFORMANCES, OR THE ABSENCE OF THEM.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday
Here we find four pyramids, one built by Sahurâ, and another by Userenrâ, kings of the vth dynasty.
— from The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks by Charles E. Moldenke
Besides which, the choice minerals are buried under kilometers of rock.
— from Industrial Revolution by Poul Anderson
Here he was given a small task, and was lodged and boarded until Keimer sent for him to strike off his poem.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce
Free men will not work, and 'bush,' unless kept down, will grow with terrible ferocity.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. II by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
After they grew up, they engaged from time to time in various wars, and met with various wonderful adventures, until at length Jupiter, the oldest of them, succeeded, by means of [Pg 27] thunderbolts which he caused to be forged for his use, in vast subterranean caverns beneath Mount Etna and Mount Vesuvius, conquered all his enemies, and became universal king.
— from Romulus Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
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