But there are no end of people here that I don't know, for they're grown up and altered so since I used to go about.” — from Adam Bede by George Eliot
and sulphur soap I used to
I dont know how the first night ever we met when I was living in Rehoboth terrace we stood staring at one another for about 10 minutes as if we met somewhere I suppose on account of my being jewess looking after my mother he used to amuse me the things he said with the half sloothering smile on him and all the Doyles said he was going to stand for a member of Parliament O wasnt I the born fool to believe all his blather about home rule and the land league sending me that long strool of a song out of the Huguenots to sing in French to be more classy O beau pays de la Touraine that I never even sang once explaining and rigmaroling about religion and persecution he wont let you enjoy anything naturally then might he as a great favour the very 1st opportunity he got a chance in Brighton square running into my bedroom pretending the ink got on his hands to wash it off with the Albion milk and sulphur soap I used to use and the gelatine still round it — from Ulysses by James Joyce
and swiftly spread itself up to
I stood at the door, peeping through the small crevice, my sword laid on the table beside me, as my directions prescribed, until, a little after one, I saw a large black object, very ill-defined, crawl, as it seemed to me, over the foot of the bed, and swiftly spread itself up to the poor girl's throat, where it swelled, in a moment, into a great, palpitating mass. — from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
all she says it unfits them
To take First Class License in one year and win the Avery scholarship—well, well, Mrs. Lynde says pride goes before a fall and she doesn’t believe in the higher education of women at all; she says it unfits them for woman’s true sphere. — from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
and sometimes splash it upon those
And here let me remark the convenience of having but one gutter in such a narrow street, running down its middle, instead of two, one on each side, near the footway; for where all the rain that falls on a street runs from the sides and meets in the middle, it forms there a current strong enough to wash away all the mud it meets with; but when divided into two channels, it is often too weak to cleanse either, and only makes the mud it finds more fluid, so that the wheels of carriages and feet of horses throw and dash it upon the foot-pavement, which is thereby rendered foul and slippery, and sometimes splash it upon those who are walking. — from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
and She sank inanimate upon the
Think upon Agnes, and despair of pardon!' As She uttered these last words, her strength was exhausted, and She sank inanimate upon the bosom of a Nun who stood near her. — from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
a small State is unable to
To this it may be added that most important discoveries demand a display of national power which the Government of a small State is unable to make; in great nations the Government entertains a greater number of general notions, and is more completely disengaged from the routine of precedent and the egotism of local prejudice; its designs are conceived with more talent, and executed with more boldness. — from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville
at sudden starts immediately under their
This threat was so palpably disregarded, that though within five minutes afterwards the three boys all burst into the room together and sat down, Fanny could not consider it as a proof of anything more than their being for the time thoroughly fagged, which their hot faces and panting breaths seemed to prove, especially as they were still kicking each other's shins, and hallooing out at sudden starts immediately under their father's eye. — from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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all six shoes impartially until the
After that, Carlie poured mucilage into all six shoes impartially until the bottle was empty, then took them back to their former positions in the dressing-room. — from Penrod and Sam by Booth Tarkington
"No," said the girl—and many a spark Flashed from her eyelid as she said it— "Under the rose, or in the dark, One might, perhaps, have cause to dread it; But when its wicked eyes appear, And when we know for what they wink so, One must be very simple, dear, To let it sting one—don't you think so?" Thomas Moore [1779-1852] H2 anchor "WHEN I LOVED YOU" When I loved you, I can't but allow I had many an exquisite minute; — from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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