Dismiss Your flatterers—let no harpings, no gay songs Prevent your calm dictation of good laws To guard, to fortify, and keep enlinked England and Freedom!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
That here, above All dukes, aye, kings, eke emperors—in the eyes Of Germany to their fierce strife a prey, He rears upon his tower, in stern defiance, A signal of appeal to the crushed people, A banner vast, of Sorrow's sable hue, Snapped by the tempest in its whirlwind wrath, So that kings quiver as the jades at whips?
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
When a man carries on the congress by exciting himself by means of the sixty-four ways, such as kissing, etc., etc., or when a man and a woman come together, though in reality they are both attached to different persons, their congress is then called "congress of artificial love."
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana
of the Nawab Amir Khan, etc., etc., etc.!
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
There were disturbances also up in Gautland as long as King Eirik Eymundson lived; but he died when King Harald Harfager had been ten years king of all Norway.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
‘Why don’t you go down and knock ‘em every one downstairs?
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
In this long spell, the magician follows the course of a Kula expedition, enumerating its most [ 202 ] conspicuous landmarks.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski
And if thou wouldst not hang in a pig's skin, be wise and wary, and keep eyes, ears, and mouth closed.'
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren
Principal authorities are K. E. Emory and M. K. Pukui.
— from Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii by George Cornelius Ruhle
A kiss ensues, even though it should be obtained after a struggle; then the boy marches away round and round followed by the girl, while all again sing the song.
— from Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Robert Ford
If such a kingdom ever existed it was long before the mediæval era, and a spired church belongs to the Gothic period.
— from The Cornish Riviera by Sidney Heath
Why, of course she saw everything and knew everything, even what was going on in my soul at that moment.
— from In the World by Maksim Gorky
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