I would find Lutuf Ullah, my partner.' 'The deuce you did?
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
But some few less unscientific minds pretended to find little difficulty in otherwise accounting for it.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
He came and stood by the side of my hammock, looking down upon me with a whimsical expression as he took my wrist in his hand and pressed his fingers lightly upon my pulse.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood
But, waving the flags, let us more particularly denounce the prohibition of music.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Scholastic history ends at 1700 or 1800, always long before it throws the faintest light upon modern political or social conditions.
— from Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Under our present system, the burial of the dead is a source of profit; it yields an annual surplus towards defraying the other expenses of the church; and it 101 thus conspires with other circumstances to make the church-rate fall light upon my parishioners.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick
One day while taking my French lesson under Mademoiselle Pauline, and we were chatting away merrily enough without taking any notice of Jacques, who was arranging pots of bears' grease on the shelves in the background, our heads drew very close together, and we were looking very fondly into each other's eyes and whispering rather low.
— from Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by M. Y. Halidom
If I hae sinned, hae I not suffered?—Hae I had a day’s peace or an hour’s rest since these lang wet locks of hair first lay upon my pillow at Craigburnfoot?—Has
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott
What if God, willing to make known his power, and justice, and wrath, have fitted and prepared some vessels for destruction, with which in time he bears much, and forbears long, using much patience towards them, ver.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
If I hae sinned, hae I not suffered?—Hae I had a day's peace or an hour's rest since these lang wet locks of hair first lay upon my pillow at Craigburnfoot?—Has
— from The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Walter Scott
Replied the Rabbi, "Let these living eyes First look upon my place in Paradise."
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
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