"Of course, you know, it hasn't come to the employment agencies and the painted blotting-pads yet; but I'm rather hard-up just for the moment, and if I could find something to do—notes to write and visiting-lists to make up, or that kind of thing—it would tide me over till the legacy is paid.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Danish commissioners fairly stated their fears of Russia; and Nelson, with that frankness which sound policy and the sense of power seem often to require as well as justify in diplomacy, told them his reason for demanding a long term was, that he might have time to act against the Russian fleet, and then return to Copenhagen.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
v [B2; c16] for standing things to be implanted close to each other.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
But dare thou not, I charge, in any case, To enter into that same baleful bower, For fear the cruel fiendes should thee unwares devour!
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
She brought the infant Lubotchka with her as usual, and talked cheerfully for some time.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Now Acme had written to Antipater himself, and informed him, that, in compliance with his command, she had both herself written to Herod, as if Salome had laid a sudden plot entirely against him, and had herself sent a copy of an epistle, as coming from Salome to her lady.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
The Psylli were a people of Africa, celebrated for sucking the poison from wounds inflicted by serpents, with which that country anciently abounded.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
Finally, M. Opiz, tired of the polemics, announced that he was leaving on a six-weeks tour of inspection and that he would not be able to occupy himself with the duplication of the cube for some time to come.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
horrid-yet my duty, As doth a rock against the chiding flood, Should the approach of this wild river break, And stand unshaken yours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
THE ROYAL COMMISSION For some time past it had been made clear that no Select Committee of the Houses of Parliament, however efficient, could be expected to cope with the problem of metropolitan combined tubes, tramways and vehicular street traffic; and in view of the probability of other Tube Bills being promoted during the session of 1903, it was strongly urged upon the Government to consent to a Royal Commission on the matter.
— from Tube, Train, Tram, and Car; or, Up-to-date locomotion by Arthur H. (Arthur Henry) Beavan
The Allegheny or Mackinaw skiff was a covered boat carrying from six to ten tons.
— from The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830 by Hazel Yearsley Shaw
The vexation I had constantly felt since the discovery made me banish every weakness.
— from Home Life of Great Authors by Hattie Tyng Griswold
The infant schools of the empire are for the children of all the poor—Catholic, Lutheran, evangelical, &c.; and the two belonging to Presburg, to which we here particularly allude, contain from sixty to seventy of the latter in every two hundred.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 426 Volume 17, New Series, February 28, 1852 by Various
Brother Corrill's conduct for some time had been very unbecoming, especially in a man in whom so much confidence had been placed.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.
The seven women at that tea party spent 84 cents for stamps to get a sample of those crackers.
— from Postal Riders and Raiders by W. H. Gantz
Why not take that jaded band of youths out across yon fields, take them to the village church, and show them grinning gargoyle and curling finial, show them the deep-cut blocks of stone, show them, on your return, a picture of the Rue de la Grosse Horloge at Rouen?
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
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