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day long through

Let any man attempt to cry through the streets of a town: "Whoever is willing to stand all day long through a winter's terrible cold, through a summer's tormenting heat, in an iron hall exposed on all sides, there to address every passer-by, and to offer him fancy wares, or fish, or fruit, will receive two florins, or four francs or something similar."
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl

discourse like that

Who is not earnestly affected with a passionate speech, well penned, an elegant poem, or some pleasant bewitching discourse, like that of [3318] Heliodorus, ubi oblectatio quaedam placide fuit, cum hilaritate conjuncta ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

days later to

I concluded, then, a few days later, to do something in the way of offensive movement myself, having in view something of the same object that Lee had had.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

dread lest they

"I don't care about owning it," Waterloo Sedley would say to his friends, "I am a dressy man"; and though rather uneasy if the ladies looked at him at the Government House balls, and though he blushed and turned away alarmed under their glances, it was chiefly from a dread lest they should make love to him that he avoided them, being averse to marriage altogether.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

dozen logs together

The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts—sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood-yards and the sawmill.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Danton like the

Legendre cowers low; Danton, like the others, must take his doom.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Doctor Looby to

of a sudden broke forth into a violent peal of laughter, which was succeeded by the most doleful cries, and other expressions of grief; then she relapsed into a fit, attended with strong convulsions, to the unspeakable terror of the old gentlewoman, who entreated Doctor Looby to be expeditious in his prescription.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

debarking land the

While in debate they waste the hours away, The associates of the prince repass'd the bay: With speed they guide the vessel to the shores; With speed debarking land the naval stores: Then, faithful to their charge, to Clytius bear, And trust the presents to his friendly care.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

demonstrations like that

The women who took part in Reform demonstrations like that of Peterloo belonged to an impotent class, and did little active work.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

distance led them

It is that they cannot make realities correspond with their conceptions, that enjoyment steals away from among their hands, that the wished-for comes too late, and nothing reached and acquired produces on the heart the effect which their longing for it at a distance led them to anticipate.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

de Lamballe the

Thus, among the dregs of society, foul and horrible romances are forged, in connection the famine and the Bastille, in which Louis XVI., the queen Marie Antoinette, the Comte d'Artois, Madame de Lamballe, the Polignacs, the revenue farmers, the seigniors and ladies of high rank are portrayed as vampires and ghouls.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

demoniac laugh that

Conrad laughed wildly, a sort of [112] demoniac laugh, that made her shudder in spite of herself.
— from Monica: A Novel, Volume 2 (of 3) by Evelyn Everett-Green

days later the

Two days later the world's visible supply of Pterodactyls passed into the realms of the annihilated.
— from The Autobiography of Methuselah by John Kendrick Bangs

Delaroche loved to

“The Young Princes in the Tower,” “The Execution of Marie Antoinette,” “The Death of Queen Elizabeth,” “Cromwell viewing the Body of Charles I.”—these were the kind of pictures on which Delaroche loved to employ himself.
— from Biographies of Working Men by Grant Allen

dim like the

And having stopped again and again, the visage of the monarch lamenting on beholding the track of the car, appeared dim like the Moon invaded by Rāhu.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume One. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam by Valmiki

desert likewise those

It is also necessary to them to know the places occupied by the simoom, and the seasons of their blowing in those parts of the desert, likewise those occupied by moving sands.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce

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