This brother had a high forehead, and the freshest colour of any of the Forsytes; his light grey eyes measured the street frontage of the houses by the way, and now and then he would level his, umbrella and take a 'lunar,' as he expressed it, of the varying heights.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy
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— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner
When a Royal Palace is burnt to the Ground, every Man is at Liberty to present his Plan for a new one; and tho' it be but indifferently put together, it may furnish several Hints that may be of Use to a good Architect.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
‘I reserved in my own hands, some acres of ground adjacent to the house, for making experiments in agriculture, according to the directions of Lyle, Tull, Hart, Duhamel, and others who have written on this subject; and qualified their theory with the practical observations of farmer Bland, who was my great master in the art of husbandry.—In short, I became enamoured of a country life; and my success greatly exceeded my expectation—I drained bogs, burned heath, grubbed up furze and fern; I planted copse and willows where nothing else would grow; I gradually inclosed all my farms, and made such improvements that my estate now yields me clear twelve hundred pounds a year—All this time my wife and I have enjoyed uninterrupted health, and a regular flow of spirits, except on a very few occasions, when our cheerfulness was invaded by such accidents as are inseparable from the condition of life.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett
Holy Living, Holy Dying, in Temple Classics, and in Bohn's Standard Library; Selections, edited by Wentworth; Life, by Heber, and by Gosse (English Men of Letters); Dowden's Essay, supra .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
The quantity stolen is generally exaggerated, moreover, in order to excite universal sympathy and perhaps to invoke help.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
It was by a well-considered coup d'état that, with her brave coadjutors, she 485 appeared on the floor of the House and gave each member a petition from his own State.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
" With this he led them forward, and bade them sit on seats covered with purple rugs; then he said to Patroclus who was close by him, "Son of Menoetius, set a larger bowl upon the table, mix less water with the wine, and give every man his cup, for these are very dear friends, who are now under my roof.
— from The Iliad by Homer
"SEQUEL to a Breach of Promise Case" is the heading to a paragraph in the Daily Telegraph , recording how Turner v. Avant was heard before Mr. Commissioner KERR, who adjourned the case for three weeks, because, as Mr. AGABEG, the Counsel for the Plaintiff, observed, without agabegging the question, they couldn't get any information essential to the proceedings as to the whereabouts of the Miss HAIRS, who, after failing in her action against Sir GEORGE ELLIOTT, M.P., gave up minding her own business, which she sold, and retired to the Continent; and Plaintiffs also wanted to know the present address of a certain, or uncertain, Mr. HOLLAND, somewhile Secretary to the Avant Company.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 4, 1890 by Various
President Hsu had gotten a report from Dr. George E. Morrison, who had returned from investigations in south [Pg 320] China.
— from An American Diplomat in China by Paul S. (Paul Samuel) Reinsch
His intercession had secured Mesu's pardon; but when the latter returned to Egypt and the change had occurred which other priests termed his "apostasy," the old man had grieved even more keenly than over his flight.
— from Joshua — Volume 2 by Georg Ebers
1 125 Gravis ea mīlitia, procul domō, terrā marīque multōs labōrēs, māgna perīcula adlātūra vidēbātur; neque ipsōs modo, sed parentēs cōgnātōsque eōrum ea cūra angēbat.
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond
[ Gertrude enters .] Mrs. Brauer.
— from Fires of St. John: A Drama in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann
Juan de la Cruz, la noticia que se tiene es, que despues de haber trabajado en la instruccion de los indios en Tigües y en Coquite, murió flechado de indios, porque no todos abrazaron su doctrina y consejos, con los que trataba detestasen sus bárbaras costumbres, aunque por lo general era muy estimado de los caciques y demas naturales, que habian visto la veneracion con que el general, capitanes y soldados lo trataban.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship
Glandis enim mollities frictione induratur, dehinc coitus tristis, tardus parumque vehemens.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
First, greater energy may be thrown into the task one is trying to perform.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth
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