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Whether or no the recollections of those who saw her that evening were influenced by the strange events with which she was subsequently connected, so it was that her figure ever after recurred to them as marked by something wild and unnatural, although at the time the general whisper was of her exceeding beauty and of the indescribable charm which her mantle threw around her.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ion Egluradwy, a. demonstrable Egluraint, n. splendour Eglurâu, v. to explain Eglurdeb, n. clearness Egluredig, a. exemplified Egluriad, n. explanation Egluriadol, a. explanatory Egluro, v. to manifest Eglurwr, n. an explainer Egluryn, n. an exampler Eglwg, a. manifest, lucid Eglwys, n. a church Eglwysiad, n. a churching Eglwysig, a. of the church Eglwyso, v. to church Eglyd, a. hovering; weavering Eglyn, n. the saxifrage Egni, n. effort, endeavour Egniad, n. a making effort Egnio, v. to endeavour Egniol, a. vigorous, forcible Egnius, a. impeteous, forcible Egored, a. open, expanded Egoredigaeth, n. an opening Egori, v. to open, to disclose Egoriad, n. that opens; the key Egoriadol, a. opening Egredd, n. staleness, acidity Egriad, n. a growing stale Egrifft, n. spawn of frogs Egroes, n. eglantine berries Egroesen, n. eglantine berry Egru, v. to grow stale, or acid Egryd, Egryn, n. a tremble Egrygi, n. hoarseness Egrynedig, a. trembling Egwal, n. a cot, a hut Egwan, a. feeble, dropping Egwanaeth, n. imbecility Egwander, n. feebleness Egweddi, n. dowery Egwy, n. a plague, a pest Egwya, v. to break in blotches Egwyd, n. the fetlock Egwydled, n. a small of the leg Egwyddor, n. rudiment Egwyddori, v. to initiate Egwyddoriad, n. initiation Eywyddorol, a. rudimental Egwl, n. opportunity Egyr, a. sharp, tart, eager Ehagru, v. to make ugly Ehed, n. a flight: a. flying Ehedeg, v. to fly, to skim Ehedfaen, n. a loadstone Ehedfan, v. to hover Ehediad, n. a flight Ehedion, n. refuse of corn Ehedog, a. having flight Ehedol, a. relating to flight Ehedydd, n. a flyer; a lark Ehedyn, n. a winged creature Ehegr, n. the stagger of a horse Ehegru, v. to move rapidly Ehegyr, a. abrupt: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
So I lay on all this shore Of Corinth a high feast for evermore And rite, to purge them yearly of the stain Of this poor blood.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides
I can only give a few examples and refer the reader once again to the passages in the full scores.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
The Essenians, of whom Pliny speaks, kept up their country for several ages without either nurse or baby-clouts, by the arrival of strangers who, following this pretty humour, came continually to them: a whole nation being resolute, rather to hazard a total extermination, than to engage themselves in female embraces, and rather to lose the succession of men, than to beget one.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
How this account of Mr. Swills is entirely corroborated by two intelligent married females residing in the same court and known respectively by the names of Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Perkins, both of whom observed the foetid effluvia and regarded them as being emitted from the premises in the occupation of Krook, the unfortunate deceased.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
But since she has breathed into you a soul, and implanted in you intelligence by means of which you now behold in memory many past events, though they are no longer before you: and further since your reasoning power discovers many future events and reveals them as it were to the eyes of your mind; and again your imagination sketches for you not only those present events which are going on under your eyes and allows you to judge and survey them, but also reveals to you things at a distance and many thousand stades 329 removed more clearly than what is going on at your feet and before your eyes, what need is there for such grief and resentment?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian
They may be conjured to appear, by certain enchantments, and to give their visitors glimpses of the future, especially as regards the subject of marrying.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
As soon as Hector's horse had passed the Arc de Triomphe he became suddenly imbued with fresh energy, and, realizing that his stable was not far off, began to trot rapidly through the maze of wheels, despite all his rider's efforts to restrain him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
At the same time the bishops and clergy, who had been banished by the Arian monarch, were recalled from exile, and restored to their respective churches; the Donatists, the Novatians, the Macedonians, the Eunomians, and those who, with a more prosperous fortune, adhered to the doctrine of the Council of Nice.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
To this I had received an ill-scribbled few lines in French, expressing a regret that Mademoiselle had vacated the place some weeks previously and that her present address was unknown.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux
Of the present status of superstition, the most that can be truthfully said is that some of its worst forms are nearly or quite extinct, some are apparently on the wane, while those representing, perhaps, the widest extremes (the most puerile and the most vital), such, for example, as relate to vapid tea-table gossip on the one 12 hand, and to fatal presentiments on the other, continue quite as active as ever.
— from The Myths and Fables of To-Day by Samuel Adams Drake
Occasionally the waves would catch the frail craft amidships, and make it lurch in an uncomfortable fashion, especially as regarded the ladies, which obliged Willis to keep closer in shore than was quite to his taste.
— from Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson Or, Adventures of an Emigrant Family Wrecked on an Unknown Coast of the Pacific Ocean by Adrien Paul
As if one were detached from everything, and ready to take flight."
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore
This park, from its contiguity to the metropolis, is much resorted to by all ranks of the inhabitants, for air and exercise; it possesses some pleasing scenery, and is occasionally used for exercising and reviewing the troops.
— from Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First. Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc. by Edward S. Mogg
Must it rest in the recognition of order, for example, and reject the thought of an intelligence in which that order has its source?
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint
But beyond the fact that her father was dead and her mother in California, she could learn nothing from Eloise, and returned to the point from which they had drifted to the Episcopal Church in Rome.
— from The Cromptons by Mary Jane Holmes
Station all the other men in the shelters of the support trench, or along the communication trench, if there are no shelters, but fully equipped and ready to jump to their places in the fire trench as soon as the enemy's artillery fire will stop or lengthen to allow his infantry to advance.
— from Handy War Guide for My Company: Handy Company Commander's Guide by André Godefroy Lionel Hanguillart
His liking for Pindar used to surprise us, because Pindar is peculiarly the favourite poet of poetical minds; and I suspect it was not so much the splendour of Pindar’s style and the wealth of his imagination that Freeman enjoyed, as rather the profusion of historical and mythological references.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount
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