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exit Lalage bursts into tears

(exit.) (Lalage bursts into tears and leans her head upon the table—after a short pause raises it.)
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

eighteen lines but in transcription

The title in the MS. runs "The Choise of Valentines," and Dr. Grosart purports to give the first eighteen lines, but in transcription he has omitted line 4.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

every living being indeed that

Here every other man is, to the individual, hostile, inconsiderate, greedy, inhuman, avaricious, be he noble or servile; bad is the characteristic term for man, for every living being, indeed, that is recognized at all, even for a god: human, divine, these notions are tantamount to devilish, bad.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Everlasting Life but in Torments

To salve this, it is said, that by Second, and Everlasting Death, is meant a Second, and Everlasting Life, but in Torments; a Figure never used, but in this very Case.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

eternity later blinking in the

We popped free like Champagne corks an eternity later, blinking in the grey smoky light.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

eternal life but in the

But since those Romans were in an earthly city, and had before them, as the end of all the offices undertaken in its behalf, its safety, and a kingdom, not in heaven, but in earth,—not in the sphere of eternal life, but in the sphere of demise and succession, where the dead are succeeded by the dying,—what else but glory should they love, by which they wished even after death to live in the mouths of their admirers? 15.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

explode like bombshells in the

Thus, in the eighteenth century, when nearly all the instructed, and all those of the uninstructed who were led by them, were lost in admiration of what is called civilisation, and of the marvels of modern science, literature, and philosophy, and while greatly overrating the amount of unlikeness [Pg 87] between the men of modern and those of ancient times, indulged the belief that the whole of the difference was in their own favour; with what a salutary shock did the paradoxes of Rousseau explode like bombshells in the midst, dislocating the compact mass of one-sided opinion, and forcing its elements to recombine in a better form and with additional ingredients.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Everything looked beautiful in the

Everything looked beautiful in the uncertain glory of the April day.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

eminent lawyer born in the

Waightstìll Avery was an eminent lawyer, born in the town of Groton, Connecticut, in 1747, and graduated at Princeton College in 1766.
— from Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Illustrating Principally the Revolutionary Period of Mecklenburg, Rowan, Lincoln and Adjoining Counties, Accompanied with Miscellaneous Information, Much of It Never before Published by C. L. Hunter

ever lost but its tenor

This suppressed communication is probably for ever lost, but its tenor may perhaps be gathered from instructions which were actually sent to the Ambassador about this time.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

existence like beasts in the

But we endeavor to raise his ideals and to inculcate the view we ourselves hold: that man should not be satisfied with mere existence, like beasts in the field, but should adopt civilisation and everything that, in the main, we consider to be essential to civilised life.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

easily love but in those

He did not easily trust or easily love, but in those whose worth he had thoroughly proved he had a confidence as complete as that of a child.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

equally lovely but inclined to

First was Sunlight, radiantly beautiful and very fair; the second was Moonlight, a soft, dreamy damsel with nut-brown hair; next came Starlight, equally lovely but inclined to be retiring and shy.
— from Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

exactly legal but I thought

Note 2426 ( return ) [ Ibid., Dispatch of the commandant of the Marseilles detachment to the Directory of the department, Sept. 22, 1791: "I feel that our proceedings are not exactly legal, but I thought it prudent to acquiesce in the general desire of the battalion.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

English long bow into the

At this present writing Stewart Edward White, Arthur Young, and I, are on our way to Tanganyika Colony, Africa, to carry the legends of the English long bow into the tropics.
— from Hunting with the Bow & Arrow by Saxton T. (Saxton Temple) Pope

every living being in the

Eighteen hundred and eighty feet long, four hundred and sixty-four wide, forty-eight to the cornice and seventy to the roof-tree, are figures as familiar by this time to every living being in the United States as pictures of the Main Building.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 by Various

every last bird in these

"And I will smash every last bird in these rooms," said Green.
— from The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer

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