I have been trying to realize from memory the particular instincts of those antediluvian animals of the secondary period, which succeeding to the mollusca, to the crustacea, and to the fish, preceded the appearance of the race of mammifers. — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
foreign policy the attention
But besides considerations of foreign policy, the attention of Russian society was at that time keenly directed on the internal changes that were being undertaken in all the departments of government. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
[ 6 ] “The vulgar tongue consists of two parts; the first is the Cant language; the second, those burlesque phrases, quaint allusions, and nicknames for persons, things, and places, which, from long uninterrupted usage, are made classical by prescription. — from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten
from passions to actions
These doubts, anxieties, suspicions, are the least part of their torments; they break many times from passions to actions, speak fair, and flatter, now most obsequious and willing, by and by they are averse, wrangle, fight, swear, quarrel, laugh, weep: and — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Filipino pueblo transformed as
Any American who has seen a Filipino pueblo transformed, as if by magic, from listless apathy to a state of buzzing and busy enthusiasm suggestive of a bee-hive, by preparations for some church fiesta , or for the coming of some dignitary from Manila, has seen something analogous to what would happen if the Filipino body politic should suddenly be electrified by a promise of independence under some such programme as the above. — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
from Pennsylvania Tennessee and
For many months he sat at his desk in Manila cheerily waging war with an inadequate force, and retaining in the service and on the firing line after their terms of enlistment expired, under pretence that they consented to it willingly, a lot of fellows from Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and the Western States, who had volunteered for the war with Spain, with intent to kill Spaniards in order to free Cubans, and not with intent to kill Filipinos for also wanting to be free. — from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
Then is there a singular kind of parallel between her and the little glass chandeliers of another age embellishing that assembly-room, which, with their meagre stems, their spare little drops, their disappointing knobs where no drops are, their bare little stalks from which knobs and drops have both departed, and their little feeble prismatic twinkling, all seem Volumnias. — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
first place that Armadale
It was quite enough for me to have made sure, in the first place, that Armadale will not return to Thorpe Ambrose; and to have decided him, in the second place, on going abroad. — from Armadale by Wilkie Collins
first place they are
Belden, turning the pages of the Murger, said, deprecatingly, "Don't get Stanley started on moral reflections: in the first place, they are not moral; in the second place they reflect nothing but his own perverted soul. — from Cape of Storms: A Novel by Percival Pollard
Oliver was ordered into instant confinement; and a bill was next morning pasted on the outside of the gate, offering a reward of five pounds to anybody who would take Oliver Twist off the hands of the parish; in other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling. — from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden
At the period when the claystone and greenstone porphyries nearly or quite ceased being erupted, that great pile of strata which, from often abounding with gypsum, I have generally called the gypseous formation was deposited, and feldspathic lavas, together with other singular volcanic rocks, were occasionally poured forth: I am far from pretending that any distinct line of demarcation can be drawn between this formation and the underlying porphyries and porphyritic conglomerate, but in a mass of such great thickness, and between beds of such widely different mineralogical nature, some division was necessary. — from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin
Pope, Major-General John, in command of Army of Virginia, 153 ; displays bold front as a diversion, 154 ; injudicious orders of, 154 ; “General Orders No. 11,” 155 ; his attitude towards non-combatants contrasted with Scott’s in Mexico, 155 , 156 ; engages with Jackson at Slaughter Mountain, 157 ; increases strength of his army, 159 ; captures one of Lee’s orders and officers, 160 ; puts army in retreat across the Rappahannock, 160 ; head-quarters of, raided by Stuart, 165 ; forms plan to attack Lee, 166 ; concentrates Army of Virginia at Warrenton, 168 ; orders for advance and concentration at Manassas, 171 ; reaches Manassas Junction, 172 ; orders to Porter, 178 , 179 ; orders for attack at Manassas, 180 ; orders Porter to attack Longstreet’s right, 184 ; his report upon, 185 ; mistakenly supposes Confederates retreating, 185 , 186 ; letter to, from General Lee, on death of Kearny, 194 ; criticism of, in Manassas campaign, 197 . — from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet
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