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between him and Lord Lowborough and

I see she is playing double between him and Lord Lowborough, and while she amuses herself with the lively Huntingdon, she tries her utmost to enslave his moody friend; and should she succeed in bringing both to her feet, the fascinating commoner will have but little chance against the lordly peer.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

behind her as looking like a

" "I dare say, my dear," said Lord Henry, shutting the door behind her as, looking like a bird of paradise that had been out all night in the rain, she flitted out of the room, leaving a faint odour of frangipanni.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

by him at Lucas Lodge and

The chief of every day was spent by him at Lucas Lodge, and he sometimes returned to Longbourn only in time to make an apology for his absence before the family went to bed.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

back home And lived like an

He vexed my life till I went back home And lived like an old maid till I died, Keeping house for father.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

between Hull and London laying a

II., A.D. 1661) was case against a "water carrier," between Hull and London, laying a delivery to him at York.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

battle however a little later and

61 He learned the real facts about the battle, however, a little later, and from the lips of Dan Cushing.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

between Harry and little Lucy a

The rest of Mr. Goldsmith's family consisted of the boy who drove them, then about fourteen; Mary, the eldest girl, two years younger; and Jane, who was between Harry and little Lucy; a boy still younger, in petticoats; and [Pg 17] the little one in arms: seven in the whole; and three of these, my young readers, would have been incapable of getting their bread, had it not been for the Asylum I have spoken of: their parents being poor , and having no means of procuring for them such instruction as would make them useful, and which is provided for them there.
— from Deaf and Dumb! Third Edition by Elizabeth Sandham

built him a little lodge apart

Wunph's father built him a little lodge apart, so that the boy might rest there undisturbed during his days of fasting.
— from Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

before her and looked like a

She seized Otto’s hand; he sank upon his knee before her, and looked like a marble image which expressed manly beauty and sorrow.
— from O. T., A Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

by high and low learned and

The following admirable notice from Ersch and Grüber (Encyclopädie) sums up so skilfully the history, nature, and qualities of the book that we quote at length:—"The Ship of Fools was received with almost unexampled applause by high and low, learned and unlearned, in Germany, Switzerland, and France, and was made the common property of the greatest part of literary Europe, through Latin, French, English, and Dutch translations.
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

big hump a lame leg and

The old custom of playing Richard was to take the exaggerated statements of the [Pg 302] opening soliloquy in a literal sense, to provide him with a big hump, a lame leg, and a fell of straight black hair, and to make him walk in, scowling, with his lower lip protruded, and declare with snarling vehemence and guttural vociferation his amiable purpose of specious duplicity and miscellaneous slaughter.
— from Shadows of the Stage by William Winter

behind him and lay limp and

[Pg 250] clap, and before those present had time to turn, there came the sound of a pistol-shot, and Governor Abbott, wheeling slowly on his heels, crashed headforemost through the plate-glass window behind him, and lay, limp and motionless, across the sill.
— from The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

better health and live longer and

This we may suppose might happen where a number of Europeans, composed Page 35 half of blondes and half of brunettes, come to live in a tropical country, if it be proved that the comparative darkness of the brunettes afford them better protection against inimical light and heat than the fair skin of the blondes, so that the former would on the average, enjoy better health and live longer, and therefore have more children than the latter, whereby, in course of time, the appearance of these people would be modified in respect of the general complexion of their skin.
— from The Black Man's Place in South Africa by Nielsen, Peter, active 1922-1937

betrothed husband and liege lord and

"My friends," said the lady, urging her palfrey till she reached Gaston's side, and could feel his hand upon hers, "I have come hither with this noble knight, Sir Gaston de Brocas, because he is my betrothed husband and liege lord, and I have the right to be at his side even in the hour of peril, but also because you all know me; and when I tell you that every word he has spoken is true, I trow ye will believe it.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

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