For immediately he was surrounded by a crowd of girls who drew the knitting-needles from their hair and began Jabbing them at the Guardian with the sharp points dangerously near his fat cheeks and blinking eyes. — from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum
but just to
But one may justly ascribe this act to Cherea; for although many concurred in the act itself, yet was he the first contriver of it, and began long before all the rest to prepare for it, and was the first man that boldly spake of it to the rest; and upon their admission of what he said about it, he got the dispersed conspirators together; he prepared every thing after a prudent manner, and by suggesting good advice, showed himself far superior to the rest, and made obliging speeches to them, insomuch that he even compelled them all to go on, who otherwise had not courage enough for that purpose; and when opportunity served to use his sword in hand, he appeared first of all ready so to do, and gave the first blow in this virtuous slaughter; he also brought Caius easily into the power of the rest, and almost killed him himself, insomuch that it is but just to ascribe all that the rest did to the advice, and bravery, and labors of the hands of Cherea. — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
best juice The
From thence to Holland's Hague and Helvoetsluys, That water-land of Dutchmen and of ditches, Where juniper expresses its best juice, The poor man's sparkling substitute for riches. — from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
been justified The
The preparations have every one been justified, The orchestra have sufficiently tuned their instruments, the baton has given the signal. — from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
be just the
To be just, the men were not greatly to blame for this painful and demoralizing termination to the evening's entertainment. — from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Beor, Richard White, solicitor, 2, Longland place, office, St. Mary street Berry, Benjamin, grocer and tea dealer, 2, Union street Betts, John, Mason’s Arms , 34, High street Bevan, George Ace, ship broker, 5, Pier street, office, Broad Quay Bevan, Mrs. Grace, 14, Gower street Bevan, John, ironmonger and seedsman, 16, Caer street Bevan, John, Smiths’ Arms , 124, High street Bevan, Mrs. W., lodging house keeper, 30, Bellevue street Bevan, Mansel, master mariner, 3, Dillwyn street Bevan, Miss Matilda, 11, Clarence terrace Bevan, Philip, mason, grocer and tea dealer, James street Beynon, John, merchant, 9, Brunswick place Beynon, Owen, mariner, 9, Dillwyn street Biddle, William, baker, pastry cook and confectioner, 43, Wind street Biddulph, John, merchant, office, Bath lane Biggs, Elizabeth, pawnbroker, 226, High street Biggs, Frederick, chemist and druggist, 225, High street Bindon, Frederick, flour and potatoe merchant, 9, Madoc street Bindon, Henry, grocer, 7, Union street Birchall, Henry Bath, grocer and tea dealer, 15, Castle square Birch Grove Coal Company, Ferryside Bird, George Gwyn, M.D., 2, Burrows place Birmingham Fire Assurance Society, agent, George Allen, Glamorgan Bank Birt, Thomas, baker, 9, St. David’s place Blackmore, Herbert, pilot and lodging house keeper, 1, Island street Blake, J. W., cattle dealer and lodging house keeper, 8 Heathfield street Bland, John, South Wales Railway Parcel office, Wind street Blewett, George, second-hand bookseller and bookbinder, 25, Goat street Blisset, Mrs., Clarence terrace Bolton, Robert, Three Mariners , 19, Strand Bonnett, Frederick, plumber, glazier and painter, 7, Quay parade Bonnett, John, tobacconist, engraver and copper plate printer, 41, Wind street Booth, Henry Compton, merchant, 3, Calvert terrace Borland, John, travelling draper, 32, Oxford street Boundy, Aaron, agent, 11, Northampton place Boundy, Thomas, merchant, 10, Northampton place Bowden, Henry, ore sampler, 5, Cradock street Bowden, John, tobacconist and provision dealer, 7 and 8, Wind street Bowen, Daniel, Mansel’s Arms , Wellington street Bowen, David, grocer, 6, Garden street Bowen, Evan, mason, 12, Goat street Bowen, George, hot and cold baths, 2, Adelaide street Bowen, George, clerk, York street p. 12 — from Pearse's Commercial Directory to Swansea and the Neighbourhood, for 1854 by Ebenezer Pearse
If language meant anything, those Offices meant the sacramental system of the Catholic Church; and the impression derived from the Prayer Book was confirmed by Jeremy Taylor and The Christian Year . — from Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
but just thrusting
The sun was but just thrusting a crimson arc into view in the transfigured east when he left the house—on a hard run; for part at least of the way must be covered afoot, and the journey was long—but by four o’clock it was almost as bright as midday, and the possibility of securing a conveyance for the rest of the distance was considerably increased by that fact; by five, he had secured one, and by seven he was in the Portsmouth Road at Guildford munching the sandwiches Dollops had thoughtfully slipped into his pocket and keeping a sharp lookout for the coming of the red limousine. — from Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories by Thomas W. Hanshew
be joyntly throwne
His alone selfe and unpropt name, As Rivers Rivers entertaine, But still fall single into th'maine, So doth the Moone in Consort shine Yet flowes alone into its mine, And though her light be joyntly throwne, When she makes silver tis her owne: Perhaps his quill flew stronger, when Twas weaved with his Beaumont's pen; And might with deeper wonder hit, It could not shew more his, more wit; — from The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes
Volume I. by John Fletcher
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