Adam, Heaven's high behest no preface needs: Sufficient that thy prayers are heard; and Death, Then due by sentence when thou didst transgress, Defeated of his seisure many days Given thee of grace; wherein thou mayest repent, And one bad act with many deeds well done Mayest cover:
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton
Poco más de media cuarta tendrá el nido, cuya entrada, más alta que ancha, se halla en un costado.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
“I mean that M. de Monte Cristo, digging underneath these trees, found neither skeleton nor chest, because neither of them was there!”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
At work hard all the day writing letters to the Council, &c. This day Mr. Creed came on: board and dined very boldly with my Lord, but he could not get a bed there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
I drank my coffee to-day and got no pleasure out of it.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
And after fifteen days Merlin came suddenly into their camp and asked them what this treason meant.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir
Il est trop difficile, madame, comme je pense.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
—Restad las arrugas y las barbas, y sumad los treinta años que manifiesta la pintura, y resultará que el maestro tenía (p32) razón cuando decía que ese religioso muerto era a un mismo tiempo retrato y obra de un religioso vivo.—Ahora bien: ¡Dios me confunda
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
These subjects of music and opera still engaged my attention during my convalescence, but my ideas were less energetic.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Four days being too short a holiday to permit the majority of the Wellington girls going home, they remained at college and did much celebrating.
— from Jane Allen, Right Guard by Edith Bancroft
SENECA APOCOLOCYNTOSIS, OR LUDUS DE MORTE CLAUDII : THE PUMPKINIFICATION OF CLAUDIUS.
— from Apocolocyntosis by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Ah, well, my dear, after a few seasons you get to know all about your good looks; and then, my dear, after a few seasons more you get to know what is of a great deal more consequence, all your defects, or at least
— from The Weird Sisters: A Romance. Volume 1 (of 3) by Richard Dowling
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— from Hellenism in Asia Minor by Karl Dieterich
Or, how does money cease to have the same value in all countries?
— from A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Procter, fearing that the news of defeat might cause the chief and his warriors to desert, craftily explained that his vessels had beaten the Americans, but had gone to refit and would return in a few days.
— from Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada by Ethel T. Raymond
6 d . mowing clover, 1 s .
— from Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850 by Various
AT A SCHOOL A procession of schoolboys having to meet a procession of schoolgirls on the Sunday's dead march, called a walk, round the park, could hardly go by without dropping to a hum in its chatter, and the shot of incurious half-eyes the petticoated creatures—all so much of a swarm unless you stare at them like lanterns.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith
The following spring he again went to the mines, this time his objective point being Yreka, which was then a newly developed mining camp.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman
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