It appeared to read as follows, though I was not certain of some of the words: “Polygamy dissembles majesty; extracts redeem polarity; causes hitherto exist. — from Roughing It by Mark Twain
dulness may easily render
Extravagant error is unstable, unless it be harmless and confined to a limbo remote from all applications; if it touches experience it is stimulating and brief, while the equipoise of dulness may easily render dulness eternal. — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
A month after Muishkin’s departure, Mrs. Epanchin received a letter from her old friend Princess Bielokonski (who had lately left for Moscow), which letter put her into the greatest good humour. — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
division my eyes raised
One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose en masse , it was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance they thus greeted. — from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
de Marsyas Ernest Raynaud
Edouard Dubus entitles his poem, Quand les Violons sont partis ; Louis Dumur, Lassitudes ; Gustave Khan, Les Palais nomades ; Maurice du Plessis, La Peau de Marsyas ; Ernest Raynaud, Chairs profanes and Le Signe ; Henri de Régnier, Sites et — from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau
donc mon enfant racontez
"And now, racontez donc, mon enfant, racontez," said the old lady, "where have you been all these months, and how did you escape?" Embarrassing questions these, but to hesitate was out of the question. — from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth
Donald McKay East River
From Loch Broom : John Ross, Agent, history unknown; Alexander Cameron, wife and two children, settled at Loch Broom; Alex. Ross and wife, advanced in life; Alex Ross and Family, on Middle River; Colin McKenzie and Family, on East River; John Munroe and family; Kenneth McRitchie and family; William McKenzie, at Loch Broom; John McGregor; John McLellan, on McLellans Brook; William McLellan, on West River; Alexander McLean, East River; Alexander Falconer, Hopewell; Donald McKay, East River; Archibald Chisholm, East River; Charles Matheson; Robert Sim, removed to New Brunswick; Alexander McKenzie and Thomas Fraser, From Sutherlandshire; Kenneth Fraser and family, Middle River; William Fraser and family; James Murray and family, Londonderry; David Urquhart and family, Londonderry; Walter Murray and family, Merigomish; James McLeod and wife, Middle River; Hugh McLeod, wife, and three daughters, the wife died as the vessel arrived, West River; Alexander McLeod, wife, and three sons, one of the last died in the harbor, and the father drowned in the Shubenacadie; John McKay and family, Shubenacadie; Philip McLeod and family; Donald McKenzie and family, Shubenacadie(?); Alexander McKenzie and family; John Sutherland and family; William Matheson, wife and son, first settled at Londonderry, then at Rogers Hill; Donald Grant; Donald Graham; John McKay, piper; William McKay, worked for an old settler named McCabe, and took his name; John Sutherland, first at Windsor, and then on Sutherland river; Angus McKenzie, first at Windsor, and finally on Green Hill. — from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean
Did meäke em run
The while my eärms did swing Wi' work I had on hand, The quick-wing'd lark did zing Above the green-tree'd land, An' bwoys below me chafed The dog vor fun, An' he, vor all they laef'd, Did meäke em run. — from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
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