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Poor Meg had a restless night, and got up heavy-eyed, unhappy, half resentful toward her friends, and half ashamed of herself for not speaking out frankly, and setting everything right.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott
After getting through Peary Sarkar's first and second English readers we entered upon McCulloch's Course of Reading.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore
Poor Meg had a restless night, and got up heavy-eyed, unhappy, half resentful toward her friends, and half ashamed of herself for not speaking out frankly and setting everything right.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
As soon as the aide-de-camp had said this, the old mustached officer, with happy face and sparkling eyes, raised his saber, shouted “Vivat!”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
"I'm glad we're heading for a spring," exclaimed Roger.
— from The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow
who on the other likes to fight, and squarely establishes right by might.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion
But Cariharta had no mind to enjoy her recovered happiness in silence and fingering another clog, she also entered the dance, joining her voice to those of her friends, in the following words— "Pause, angry lad! and do not beat me more, For 'tis thine own dear flesh that thou dost baste, If thou but well consider, and—" "Fair and soft," exclaimed Repolido, at that moment, "give us no old stories, there's no good in that.
— from The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Title: Citadel of Faith Author: Shoghi Effendi Release Date: September 2006
— from Citadel of Faith by Effendi Shoghi
In short they carried them to their tents, where they found a sumptuous entertainment ready.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Mrs. Cameron's first emotion, on beholding Fanny and the flattering attentions she everywhere received, was one of intense mortification, to think she had not been first to notice and chaperone her.
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes
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