It implies that the tragic world, if taken as it is presented, with all its error, guilt, failure, woe and waste, is no final reality, but only a part of reality taken for the whole, and, when so taken, illusive; and that if we could see the whole, and the tragic facts in their true place in it, we should find them, not abolished, of course, but so transmuted that they had ceased to be strictly tragic,—find, perhaps, the suffering and death counting for little or nothing, the greatness of the soul for much or all, and the heroic spirit, in spite of failure, nearer to the heart of things [325] than the smaller, more circumspect, and perhaps even 'better' beings who survived the catastrophe. — from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
(d) Compensation for loot of food, raw materials, live-stock, machinery, household effects, timber, and the like by the enemy Governments or their nationals in territory occupied by them. — from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
Does care for looke
IV Soone after comes the cruell Sarazin, In woven maile ° all armed warily, 30 And sternly lookes at him, who not a pin Does care for looke of living creatures eye. — from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
de carne fresca los
Antes de inventarse los procedimientos de congelación que permiten el embarque de carne fresca, los países de la zona templada—que es donde prosperan los ganados—enviaban a los distritos tropicales la carne seca en forma de tasajo. — from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
[1003] Johann Cochlæus, who had met him at Augsburg, calls him the “fox,” and once warns a friend: “Take care lest he cheat you with his deceitful cunning, for, like the Sirens, he gains a hearing by sweet and honeyed words; he makes a hypocritical use of lying; he is ever planning how he may win men’s hearts by all manner of wiles, and seduces them with dishonest words.” — from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
doctor came from London
I used to wear an iron thing to keep my back straight, but a grand doctor came from London to see me and said it was stupid. — from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Dropping cautiously from ledge
Dropping cautiously from ledge to ledge he crept upon the other with the swiftness of a leopard creeping upon its prey. — from The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer
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