“Why, their attention and kindness even redoubled,” replied her son; “and as for Miss Goodwin herself, she's as elegant, as sweet, and as lovely a girl as I ever looked on.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
Knots, ties, and splices; a handbook for seafarers, travelers, and all who use cordage, with practical notes on wire & wire splicing, anglers' knots, etc. Rev. & rewritten by J. Irving.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1962 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
I declare that it means nothing, and that the stanza means what instinctively (I feel and know) each reader, reading it—not "studying" it—accepts as its best meaning: the human one, the true following of the so subtly-induced mood.
— from Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne
Some Palli Poligars have very high-sounding names, such as Agni Kudirai Eriya Rāya Rāvutha Minda Nainar, i.e. , Nainar who conquered Rāya Rāvutha and mounted a fire horse.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 6 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
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