Democracy also binds brothers to each other, but by very different means.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

[98] In his introduction to the Barzaz Breiz , Villemarqué describes les korrigan , whom he equates with les fées , as very similar to ordinary fairies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

A big, sullen boy, not bad but very difficult, slouched out to the front.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But being very desirous to get out of this World of Magick, which had almost turned my Brain, I left the Temple, and crossed over the Fields that lay about it with all the Speed I could make.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

v [BN] become very dried out because of heat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This whirl of opinions, which neither revolved on any central pivot nor according to any appreciable laws, could not but be very distasteful to people's minds.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

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[201] " May it please your Royal Highness , As no person in these Kingdoms ventured more frankly in the cause than myself, and as I had more at stake than almost all the others put together, I cannot but be very deeply affected with our late loss, and present situation; and I declare, that were your Royal Highness's person in safety, the loss of the cause, and the unfortunate and unhappy state of my countrymen is the only thing that grieves me; for I thank God I have resolution to bear my own family's ruin without a grudge."
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

They were received very firmly, but civilly and patiently, by the men, and were requested to sit down at a distance, my man Brown, being very desirous that I should return before they departed; thinking the old man might have given me some information about the river, which he called "Belyando."
— from Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by T. L. (Thomas Livingstone) Mitchell

Margaret V. D. Bevans, Barbara V. D. Klaw & Anne V. D. Ross (PPW); 7Nov77; R682974. R682975.
— from Copyright Renewals 1978 by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

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There are some kinds of poverty which may be nobly accepted and gaily borne; but Vinet, devoured by ambition, and feeling himself guilty towards his wife, was full of darkling rage; his conscience grew elastic; and he finally came to think any means of success permissible.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac

The only advice the Viceroy listened to, came from those of Chile [65] , opponents of Gonzalo Pizarro, men he brought from Panama, whither they had been banished by Vaca de Castro.
— from The War of Quito by Pedro de Cieza de León

The Governor-General in Belgium , Baron von der Goltz , Field-Marshal .
— from Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart

We made them fast round the waggon, and close in front collected wood for fires, which we kept up all night; and all of us on the watch with rifles, for they never ceased their roar, sometimes very near, but being very dark and cloudy I could not see them.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson

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