But Clara was jealous of their services; she would be sole handmaid of Idris, sole minister to the wants of her little cousins; nothing gave her so much pleasure as our employing her in this way; she went beyond our desires, earnest, diligent, and unwearied,— Abra was ready ere we called her name, And though we called another, Abra came.[2] — from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Bac ou des examens d
Il est vrai que, les échéances s'approchant, il est bien normal que le nombre des visites s'accroisse à deux mois du Bac ou des examens d'une manière générale; cela relève du bouche à oreilles - bien sûr avec un travail de marketing derrière - mais au bout du compte cela paye. — from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
Bishop of Durham Edward Duke
On the 23rd of May, 1412, he was removed from his mother’s keeping, and his custody and marriage were granted, “at the request of Edward Duke of York,” to ten trustees: Archbishop Arundel, Thomas Bishop of Durham, Edward Duke of York, Sir John Pelham, Robert Tirwhit, Robert W yntryngham, clerk, John Bokeland, clerk, Thomas Walwayn, Henry Bracy, and John Adam. — from The White Rose of Langley
A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
brother of Donna Elvira Don
There is also a brother of Donna Elvira, Don Ruis de Moncade, who is a rival of Don Diego, whilst in le Dépit-amoureux . — from The Love-Tiff by Molière
For instance, I am always being asked to lecture; sometimes it is at a People’s Palace, sometimes before a learned society, or on behalf of various charities, or to address the blind, or deliver educational discourses; and even the famous Major Pond of America once tried to persuade me to go on a lecturing tour in the States. — from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
With the same also we begin our dinners ech daie after other: and because it is somewhat hard of digestion, a draught of malueseie, bastard, or muscadell, is vsuallie droonke after it, where either of them are conuenientlie to be had: otherwise the meaner sort content themselues with their owne drinke, which at that season is generallie verie strong, and stronger indéed than in all the yeare Brawne of the bore. beside. — from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison
book of descriptive essays De
Possibly no works have been more abused for ugliness than Huysman's novel En Ménage and his book of descriptive essays De Tout . — from The Author's Craft by Arnold Bennett
Buffon of Dr Erasmus Darwin
When I thought of Buffon, of Dr. Erasmus Darwin, of Lamarck and even of the author of the “Vestiges of Creation,” to all of whom Mr. Darwin had dealt the same measure which he was now dealing to myself; when I thought of these great men, now dumb, who had borne the burden and heat of the day, and whose laurels had been filched from them; of the manner, too, in which Mr. Darwin had been abetted by those who should have been the first to detect the fallacy which had misled him; of the hotbed of intrigue which science has now become; of the disrepute into which we English must fall as a nation if such practices as Mr. Darwin had attempted in this case were to be tolerated;—when I thought of all this, I felt that though prayers for the repose of dead men’s souls might be unavailing, yet a defence of their work and memory, no matter against what odds, might avail the living, and resolved that I would do my utmost to make my countrymen aware of the spirit now ruling among those whom they delight to honour. — from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
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