"amit" hidden in books

and matchless in the

A Dardan youth there was, well known to fame, From Panthus sprung, Euphorbus was his name; Famed for the manage of the foaming horse, Skill'd in the dart, and matchless in the course: Full twenty knights he tumbled from the car, While yet he learn'd his rudiments of war.
— from The Iliad by Homer

And methinks if the

And methinks, if the visage of this portrait be so dreadful, it is not without a cause that it has hung so long in a chamber of the province-house.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

all men in this

Now when King Edward had read this letter, he replied thus: "It is known to all men in this country that King Ethelred, my father, was udal-born to this kingdom, both after the old and new law of inheritance.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

and manners in the

Of all his essays the best known and loved are those which introduce us to Sir Roger de Coverley, the genial dictator of life and manners in the quiet English country.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

a Miniature in the

"--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the Manuscript of "Livre du Roy Modus" (Fourteenth Century).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

are made in the

The next stitches are made in the same way; whether they are to serve for casting on or for a netted foundation.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

are more interesting than

The histories of kingdoms are more interesting than domestic stories: The histories of great empires more than those of small cities and principalities: And the histories of wars and revolutions more than those of peace and order.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

assistance may imagine that

Either may be in the right; and each of those who grant their assistance may imagine that he is giving his support to the better cause.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

and melting into tears

When she heard my order to go away, she threw herself on her knees, and melting into tears, she begged, she entreated my pity!
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

are made in the

“Sir,” said one of the gamesters, “this book treats of a lottery in which all the calculations are made in the fairest manner possible.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

almost metallic in their

The center is in soft tints of undyed wool, while the peacock blues of the field above the niche are almost metallic in their brilliancy and lustre.
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

a man in the

He was the son of the Duke of Gordon, belonging to one of the most ancient of the Scottish nobility, but a man in the highest degree wild and fanatical.
— from A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges by John Lord

and mysterious in that

"Surely," answered Isla, lifted clean out of herself by something tragic and mysterious in that other woman's face.
— from The Last of Their Race by Annie S. Swan

a meeting in the

After the fight the party of the city retreated, and next day they held a meeting in the marketplace and deposed the Thirty, and elected ten citizens with full powers to bring the war to a termination.
— from The Athenian Constitution by Aristotle

any mistake in this

Why, that note come inside of the parcel, which was directed very thoughtful to save all trouble, ready to be sent back with the book inside; and if I have made any mistake in this 'ole transaction, it lays just in the one point that I neglected to enter the address in my little book here what I keep.
— from Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James

at Matanzas Inlet that

It would seem, from the accounts of this blockade and the fact that supplies were brought in at Matanzas Inlet, that the old fort at Matanzas was not then standing.
— from The History of Saint Augustine, Florida by William W. (William Whitwell) Dewhurst

a mausoleum in the

They had already built for themselves a mausoleum in the garden where their bodies were to repose, and they were accustomed to show it as other people show a summer-house.
— from Fair Haven and Foul Strand by August Strindberg

a monk in Thrace

A Protus of the race Is rumored to have died a monk in Thrace,—
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

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