The sacrificial altar then Was raised by skilful twice-born men, In shape and figure to behold An eagle with his wings of gold, With twice nine pits and formed three-fold Each for some special God, beside — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
faces some staring gloomily
Penned in the dock, as I again stood outside it at the corner with his hand in mine, were the two-and-thirty men and women; some defiant, some stricken with terror, some sobbing and weeping, some covering their faces, some staring gloomily about. — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
fleet shall safely gain
My will’s the same: fair goddess, fear no more, Your fleet shall safely gain the Latian shore; Their lives are giv’n; one destin’d head alone Shall perish, and for multitudes atone.” — from The Aeneid by Virgil
finished she sank gently
When her toilet for the night was finished she sank gently onto the sheet spread over the hay on the side nearest the door. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
For silent shady groves
Thou wanderer where the wild wood ceaseless breathes The sweetly-murmuring strain, from falling rills Or soft autumnal gales; O! seek thou there Some fountain gurgling from the rifted rock, Of pure translucent wave, whose margent green Is loved by gentlest nymphs, and all the train Of that chaste goddess of the silver bow; For silent, shady groves, by purling springs, Delight the train, and through the gliding hours Their nimble feet in mazy trances wind; And oft at eve, the wondering swain hath heard The Arcadian pipe and breathing minstrelsy, From joyous troops of those rude deities Whose homes are on the steep and rocky mount, Or by the silver wave in woody dell, And know the shrine, with flowery myrtles veiled, All lonely placed by that wild mountain stream, That from the sacred hills, like Hippocrene, With warbling numbers, softly glides along. — from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844
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first sign she gave
He went up to her, resolved to make fun of himself at the first sign she gave of being privy to his disgrace. — from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells
for sheer satisfaction go
Good 209 weather still waited upon their wayfaring, and they loitered onward gayly, till, arriving at the myriad-islanded bay of the Tuskets, near the westernmost tip of the peninsula, they could not, for sheer satisfaction, go farther. — from Kings in Exile by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
free state shall give
It is not we who shall proclaim the republic; it will be our king, the noblest of sovereigns; he shall say:— “I declare Saxony to be a free state, and the first of this free state shall give to every one the fullest security of his station, and we further proclaim that the highest power in the land of Saxony is invested in the royal house of Wettin to descend from branch to branch by the right of the firstborn. — from Wagner as I Knew Him by Ferdinand Praeger
As she finished speaking, she glanced toward the curtain, which separated them from the room where Paralus reposed, watched by the faithful Geta. — from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child
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