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all dark about me in the

After this my sight began to fail, and it was all dark about me in the chamber, as if it had been night, save in [Pg 7] the Image of the Cross whereon I beheld a common light; and I wist not how.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

a demonstration and must imply the

For if such an inference may be drawn merely from the ideas of body, of motion, and of impulse, it must amount to a demonstration, and must imply the absolute impossibility of any contrary supposition.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

and dipping a mop in the

After several other dispositions, the builder delivers over the galley to the contractor as complete: but he, among other faults and objections, observes the lion is not gilt, on which the builder or one of his assistants, runs to the head, and dipping a mop in the excrement, thrusts it into the face of the lion.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

and disgraces a man it tears

Lust is attended with heat, exulting joy with levity, fear with meanness, but grief with something greater than these; it consumes, torments, afflicts, and disgraces a man; it tears him, preys upon his mind, and utterly destroys him: if we do not so divest ourselves of it as to throw it completely off, we cannot be free from misery.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

and distributing a melody in thirds

Only the best methods of using the wood-wind in unison or octaves, and distributing a melody in thirds, sixths and mixed intervals, from the standpoint of resonance and tone quality will be indicated in this section of the work.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

as death and more infectious than

Such is hope, Heaven’s own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

as determined a man in the

As self-willed and as determined a man, in the wrong way, as ever put a human creature under heaven out of patience!
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

a drachma at most in the

And the young, moreover, learn these things from me, which they might purchase for a drachma, at most, in the orchestra, and so ridicule Socrates, if he pretended they were his own, especially since they are so absurd?
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

are dignified and maidenly in the

The heroes are simple, frank, and soldierly; the heroines are dignified and maidenly in the most unconventional situations.—
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

a détour and marched in the

If he had, instead of retreating, made a détour, and marched in the rear of Prince Charles, he would have destroyed or taken the Austrian army.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

and distinguish any movement in the

With his eyes obstinately fixed on the spot whence the sound that had aroused him came, he tried to pierce the darkness, and distinguish any movement in the chaparral which would permit him to form probable conjectures as to the visitors who were arriving.
— from The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

afterwards did as may in time

It is true we acted wisely in it not to let them know whither we went, seeing we had resolved to separate; but we took our old doctor's directions how to write to him in Holland, and in England, that we might have intelligence from him on occasion, and promised to give him an account how to write to us, which we afterwards did, as may in time be made out.
— from The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton by Daniel Defoe

also displace and magnify individuals to

We also displace and magnify individuals to form the image of the species, but we do this in a fragmentary way, not by altered combinations, so that it is necessary to gather up from different individuals the elements that form the species in its totality.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

all darned and mended in the

Madame André, who comes to see her boy every day, remarked my looking at her dress which was all darned and mended in the most unaccountable places, "O, Mademoiselle," she said.
— from Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium by Glenna Lindsley Bigelow

and demanded a meeting in the

Full of self-importance at this first and safe opportunity to stand upon what is known as "the field of honor," Tiltock kept the lieutenant in his eye, and took him finally aside and demanded a meeting in the name of Utie.
— from Tales of the Chesapeake by George Alfred Townsend

a dwarf and make it tremble

Then the boy said to me, “Did not Vishṇu, as soon as he was born, stride across the earth, in the form of a dwarf, and make it tremble?
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

a daisy and made it the

Burns took a daisy and made it the symbol of the racked poet, and could write about a mouse or a louse and deduce some universal idea.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

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