After having told me the usual things about piskies, fairies, spirits, ghosts, and the devil, Uncle Billy Pender was very soon talking about the dead:— Cornish Legend of the Dead.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
("En ce temps-là du ciel les portes.")
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
2 [A; a] make the delicacy called lidgid .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
The army was made up of white slanting lines that filled the air like the cobwebs that float about in autumn and which Dessalles called les fils de la Vièrge .
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Bemerkungen über die Quellen des Dio Cassius LXVI-LXIX.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus
The note explains that Toronto and Niagara, are "postes considérables de l'Ontario: le premier, situé à l'ouest de ce lac, est formé par une baie profonde et commode, où le Gouvernement Anglais a fait construire un chantier, et une ville à laquelle on a donné le nom d'York; le second, situé au sud-ouest, est formé par l'embouchure de la rivière Niagara, à l'est de laquelle est la forteresse du même nom, et à l'ouest la pointe des Missisagués, sur laquelle on construit une nouvelle ville, destinée à être la capitale du Haut Canada."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
Ayant aussi parlé et vu que le grand saint avait mis fin suivant les rites à son pieux sacrifice, les Dieux, Indra à leur tête, s'évanouissent dans le vide des airs et se rendent vers l' architecte des mondes, le souverain des créatures, le donateur des biens, vers Brahma enfin, auquel tous, les mains jointes, ils adressent les paroles suivantes: “O Brahma, un rakshasa, nommé Râvana, tourne su [pg 513] mal les grâces, qu'il a reçues de toi.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
Bulger had warned me that this gateway was guarded, and therefore I entered it cautiously, taking care to peer into the dark corners lest I might be a target for some invisible enemy to hurl a weapon at.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood
Dora’s nose was straight, Davy’s a positive snub; Dora had a “prunes and prisms” mouth, Davy’s was all smiles; and besides, he had a dimple in one cheek and none in the other, which gave him a dear, comical, lopsided look when he laughed.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
A fine day Capt. Lewis left me at 8 oClock just below the place I entered a verrey high mountain which jutted its tremedious Clifts on either Side for 9 Miles, the rocks ragide Some verry dark & other part verry light rock the light rocks is Sand Stone.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
L. 1043 is from the same, ll. 15102-4 :— 'La destre manche de son braz Bone et fresche de ciclaton Li done en leu de gonfanon.' Ll.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer
At their approach they glared with redoubled light; and, being suspended, let the vessel pass to Cologne, whose cathedral burst forth a building of light, every detail of the architecture being made out in delicately coloured lamps—pinkish, with an underglow of orange.
— from The Public Life of Queen Victoria by John McGilchrist
Anon she came to pause in a grove of beeches, gazing up in awe at the giant branches above her, curving in graceful arches far above her head; or she stooped in delight over some gnarled old tree-stump, alive with feathery ferns and delicately coloured lichens;
— from Barbara Winslow, Rebel by Beth Ellis
And even then, even if we do call life a journey, and death the inn
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare
The new baby was well into her second month before they took Myra home,--a dark, crumpled little thing Susan thought the newcomer, and she thought that she had never seen Georgie looking so pale and thin.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris
In writing, a few years ago, the volume entitled The Conjure Woman , I suspect that I was more influenced by the literary value of the material than by its sociological bearing, and therefore took, or thought I did, considerable liberty with my subject.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
[For evidence of date compare ll. 255-8 with Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal for March 20, 24, and April 6, 8.]
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Such deposition to be effective would apparently [405] involve such constitutional changes that it is difficult to see how either the Hapsburg or Hohenzollern dynasty could logically survive the revolution.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various
The dawn came late in those winter mornings but the house was very silent as the heavy black behind the window lifted to a lighter gray.
— from The Gods and Mr. Perrin: A Tragi-Comedy by Hugh Walpole
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