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Another late epic narrating the

Another late epic, narrating the fortunes of the same hero as the Naishadhīya , is the Nalodaya , or “Rise of Nala,” which describes the restoration to power of King Nala after he had lost his all.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Alpine Ligurians Et nunc tonse

Lucan, B. i. l. 442, 3, refers to this characteristic of the Alpine Ligurians: Et nunc tonse Ligur, quondam per colla decora Crinibus effusis toti prælate Comatæ.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

and lenger every night Than

The day is more, and lenger every night, Than they be wont to be, him thoughte tho; 660 And that the sonne wente his course unright By lenger wey than it was wont to go; And seyde, `Y-wis, me dredeth ever-mo, The sonnes sone, Pheton, be on-lyve, And that his fadres cart amis he dryve.'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Albanenses Labicenses et nuper Tiburtini

[ Ne a feritate Romanorum, sicut fuerant Hostienses, Portuenses, Tusculanenses, Albanenses, Labicenses, et nuper Tiburtini destruerentur, (Matthew Paris, p. 757.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

a little earlier now that

I had gone back to my glade again, and to the thin sunshine, which came a little earlier, now that we were deep in July; and one afternoon I sat in the mouth of the path, just where I had played the bounding harlequin for the benefit of the lovely visitor at Quesnay.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

and lapstone Enough not to

—And how much do you versifiers know of all those arts and sciences you refer to as if you were as familiar with them as a cobbler is with his wax and lapstone? —Enough not to make too many mistakes.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

and losing enough nails to

They are breaking a lot of slate and losing enough nails to shingle a barn."
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

and least exciting nature there

For even if meetings or expeditions of some kind were not planned for every day, and even if these same little plans were of the simplest and least exciting nature, there was always the consciousness of outside interest and sociability at hand, hitherto so peculiarly absent from the young lives at Fir Cottage.
— from The Laurel Walk by Mrs. Molesworth

at last expired notwithstanding the

Lady Dun is at last expired, notwithstanding the prayers of the faithful.
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady

and less experience never thinking

About two years ago I began writing a series of short articles in the pages of the ‘Lady’s Pictorial’ on the absorbing subject of housekeeping, meaning to confine myself strictly to the house and home of the British matron who begins life with little money and less experience, never thinking anything more would come of them than a mere temporary access of work for a few weeks; but I had not begun them for more than a month when, through the office of the paper, a regular and increasing mass of correspondence began to reach me, asking questions on every subject under the sun, from the proper management of a house and the feeding of a baby to the fearful inquiry whether I thought a wife should leave her husband or not when she discovered all too late she liked somebody else better than she did her lord and master.
— from From Kitchen to Garret: Hints for young householders by J. E. (Jane Ellen) Panton

at least evince not the

The distinguished and noble names we find in the programmes of our Congresses and Meetings, and in the 1884 British Chess Association are there as form only, and it seems surprising that so many well known and highly esteemed public men should allow their names to continue to be published year after year as Patrons, Presidents, or Vice-Presidents of concerns in which apparently they take not; or at least evince not, the slightest interest.
— from Chess History and Reminiscences by H. E. (Henry Edward) Bird

and lateral edges near the

Basal Grinding (L)—the grinding away of the sharp basal edges and lateral edges near the base of a projectile point to prevent cutting of the lashings.
— from Handbook of Alabama Archaeology: Part I, Point Types by James W. Cambron

a lord Eat not the

He may not know Matthew Arnold's "Sick King in Bokhara," but he would endorse Arnold's lines:— "And these all, for a lord Eat not the fruit of their own hands; Which is the heaviest of all plagues To that man's mind, who understands."
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

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