There are many such still in the tombs at the place where She is, for those who set them there had a way I know naught of, whereby to keep their beloved out of the crumbling hand of Decay, even when Death had slain them.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
Mirliflor, as you very well know, came here on darling Edna's account, and you deliberately threw that Miss Heritage in his way—I haven't the least doubt you told her who he really was!"
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey
For debates on, see Commons, House of Dorsetshire election, 1831, ii. 203, 207; crime in, iii. 77 Dover, Lord, resigns the Woods and Forests, ii. 109; created a Peer, 150; death of, iii. 4; character of, 4; Life of Frederick II., 6; book on the Man in the Iron Mask, 6 Down, deanery of, iii. 70 Drax v .
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville
How can habits of decency, energy, order, thrift, virtue, grow up—nay, how can they continue, if in the beginning they existed, with such management?
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff
He caught himself, one day, even, with his eyes glued fast to the professor's deft manipulations, while he himself was saying, half aloud,— "The Lord is in His holy temple."
— from The Brentons by Anna Chapin Ray
The intrinsic possibility of essences is not dependent on the Free Will of God; the actualization of possible essences is; but God can will to actualize only such essences as He sees, from comprehending His own Divine Essence, to be intrinsically possible.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey
Every one called him Ogmund Dint, even [Pg 31] the boys who played about on the quayside.
— from Frey and His Wife by Maurice Hewlett
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