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and received a black eye

On one occasion he provoked Nicodromus, the harp-player, and received a black eye from him; so he put a plaster on his forehead and wrote upon it, “Nicodromus did this.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

any rich and balanced experience

The variety of interests which should mark any rich and balanced experience have been torn asunder and deposited in separate institutions with diverse and independent purposes and methods.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

and reaches a better expression

Thus a succession of generations or languages or religions constitutes no progress unless some ideal present at the beginning is transmitted to the end and reaches a better expression there; without this stability at the core no common standard exists and all comparison of value with value must be external and arbitrary.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

a richness and beauty effect

A dark silhouetted mass is seen against a light sky, the perfect balance of the shapes and the infinite play of lost-and-foundness in the edges giving to this simple structure a richness and beauty effect that is very satisfying.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

a reaction and besides each

That would have been too great an outrage upon popular beliefs, and might have caused a reaction; and, besides, each new religion had an interest of its own in preserving the basis of belief in these invisible [ 24 ] beings.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

and roots and berries eat

Here let the river keepers meet, Who flesh and roots and berries eat; A hundred fishers man each boat Of the five hundred here afloat, And let the youthful and the strong Assemble in defensive throng.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

and relax and be easily

Men will freely expose themselves at the beginning of an action, and relax and be easily discouraged if it should last.
— from Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld

antient rule and best example

The circumscription of time wherein the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and best example, within the space of 24 hours.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

are represented as being engaged

These love-gods, who afforded to artists inexhaustible subjects for the exercise of their imagination, are represented as being engaged in various occupations, such as hunting, fishing, rowing, driving chariots, and even busying themselves in mechanical labour.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

a right angle by extending

Next on Hurlburt's right came McClernand's division, also extending westward; then Sherman's, making almost a right angle by extending its right northward towards Snake Creek, to the overflowed lands and swamp just below the mouth of Owl Creek.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

animal resembling a bull except

During our stay on the other side of the Bahar el Abiud, it was reported in the camp that some of the Mogrebin soldiers, gone out to shoot gazelles, had killed in the desert which lies off from the river, an animal, resembling a bull, except that its feet were like those of a camel.
— from A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar Under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt, By An American In The Service Of The Viceroy by George Bethune English

and Romans and by elegant

In treating upon Wit, the Author seems constantly to carry in his View a Distinction between This and Vivacity : there is a Lustre or Brilliancy which often results from wild unprovok'd Sallies of Fancy; but such unexpected Objects, which serve not to elucidate each other, discover only a Flow of Spirits, or rambling Vivacity; whereas, says he, Wit is the Lustre which results from the quick Elucidation of one Subject, by the just and unexpected Arrangement of it with another Subject.--To constitute Wit , there must not only arise a Lustre from the quick Arrangement together of two Subjects, but the new Subject must be naturally introduced, and also serve to elucidate the original one: the Word Elucidation , though it be not new, is elegant, and very happily applied in this Definition; yet I have seen some old Gentlemen here stumble at it, and have found it difficult to persuade them to advance farther:--I have also heard Objections made to the Words Lustre and Brilliancy of Ideas, though they are Terms which have been used by the Greeks and Romans , and by elegant Writers of all Ages and Nations; and the Effect which they express, is perfectly conceiv'd and felt by every Person of true Genius and Imagination.
— from An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) by Corbyn Morris

and reading and by eleven

The evening is devoted to writing and reading, and by eleven or half-past darkness closes over this weird and truculent existence.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

and ran at both ends

Mrs. MacCall said the seamstress' tongue was "hung in the middle and ran at both ends."
— from The Corner House Girls at School by Grace Brooks Hill

are regarded as being easy

When the existence of these oppositions is denied, or they are regarded as being easy to overcome, 354 there grows up an optimistic, contemplative form of Idealism, which to the holders of other forms inevitably seems abstract and shallow.
— from Life's Basis and Life's Ideal: The Fundamentals of a New Philosophy of Life by Rudolf Eucken

air recreation and bodily exercise

By the doctor's order he was treated as a patient and, after some time, the result of the application of the tests, then only recently discovered, showed that he was much affected with brain animalcula, which had been generated by the exhaustion of one part of the brain, in consequence of the incessant occupations of another portion, by one all-engrossing subject, without the relief of sufficient air, recreation, and bodily exercise.
— from Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

and round as Brownies eyes

The Hoosier Folk-Child's eyes are wise And wide and round as Brownies' eyes: The smile they wear is ever blent With all-expectant wonderment,— On homeliest things they bend a look As rapt as o'er a picture-book, And seem to ask, whate'er befall, The happy reason of it all:— Why grass is all so glad a green, And leaves—and what their lispings mean;— Why buds grow on the boughs, and why They burst in blossom by and by— As though the orchard in the breeze Had shook and popped its popcorn-trees , To lure and whet, as well they might, Some seven-league giant's appetite!
— from Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems by James Whitcomb Riley

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