Behrens , Rev. A. D., son of the former, esteemed of the L.J.S., whom the writer learned to know and love in 1873 at Breslau, was appointed to the charge of the Mission at Vienna in 1875.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
So far, data transporters have been receiving a disproportionate share of the total costs.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno
And Natásha began rapidly and deftly sorting out the things.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Indeed I am not sure that it was fear I felt, but rather a deep sense of the vanity of all things.
— from The Ancient Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
It is an admitted fact, that the catholics generally attended the church, till it came to be reckoned a distinctive sign of their having renounced their own religion.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam
The royalists did not wait for his approach, but retreated and disposed some of their forces for the defence of Hornby and Thurland Castles, the remainder marching to join the Queen.
— from The Great Civil War in Lancashire (1642-1651) by Ernest Broxap
In his odes we do not trace that mixture of Æolian passion and that concentration upon personal emotions which are noticeable in those of Ibycus, but rather a Dorian solemnity of thought and feeling, qualifying Simonides for the arduous functions to which he was called, of commemorating in elegy and epigram and funeral ode the achievements of Hellas against Persia.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Colonel Basil Jackson, in his "Waterloo and St. Helena" (printed for private circulation), p. 64, states that he had been employed in examining and reporting on the Belgian roads, and did so on the road leading south from Wavre.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Berlin accepted this note as "new evidence of the friendly feelings of the American Government," but reserved a "definite statement" of the position of the Imperial Government until it learned "what obligations the British Government are on their part willing to assume."
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
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