That is true love which is always the same, whether you give everything or deny everything to it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
To “goose” a performance is to hiss it; and continued “goosing” generally ends, or did end before managers refused to accept the verdict of audiences, in the play or the players being “damned.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten
At the end they gave each one dollar extra for ’ricksha hire the next day, so there would be no excuse for not going to the meeting at the University.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey
It will be entirely out of the question to send you ten thousand men, not because they cannot be spared, but how would they be fed after they got even one day east from here?" Longstreet, for some reason or other, stopped at Loudon until the 13th.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
It proves how fallacious is their reckoning of the union that is to prevail among them, and how much greater elements of disunion exist among the Whigs than among the Tories, though they have not yet of course begun to exhibit the symptoms of it.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville
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— from Doomsday Eve by Robert Moore Williams
O'Daly-Meehan, /The Rise, Increase, and Exile of the Geraldines, Earls of Desmond/, etc., 1878.
— from History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 2 by James MacCaffrey
Mr. Moffat, generous enough or discreet enough to take no note of his opponent's discomfiture, lifted a paper from the table and held it towards the witness.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green
It was at this stage of our story that a grave element of danger entered Elizabeth Linley's life, with the arrival at Bath of a Major Matthews, a handsome roué , with a large rent-roll from Welsh acres, and a dangerous reputation won in the lists of love.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall
o'er the willow boughs shall lie; And when our chamber we shall gain Eastward our drowsy eyes shall strain If yet perchance the dawn may show.
— from Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by William Morris
The colour of the distant hills tones off from indigo to mauve; but for all the general effect of darkness, every stone and crag shows up distinctly.
— from Foxhunting on the Lakeland Fells by Richard Clapham
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