She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, She'll gallop far enough to her destruction.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Now Robertson^9 harangue nae mair, But steek your gab for ever;
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
See map of Italy Eurōpa, -ae , f. Europe Eurystheus, -ī , m. Eurys´theus , a king of Tiryns, a city in southern Greece ē-vādō, -ere, -vāsī, -vāsus [ ē , out , + vādō , go ], go forth, escape ex , see ē exanimātus, -a, -um
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
Nor I, although the game fue el empeño entre los dos, was only between this pair, no ha de decirse por Dios by God, don’t imagine I care que me avergonzó jamás. or consider it any shame.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
For the next six or seven weeks we were very busy arranging with the Japanese the details of a scheme for organizing their navy, with the assistance of a body of English officers who were to be sent out from England, as a counterpoise to the French Military Mission, which had been at work since the beginning of the year, and for the establishment of a college to be superintended by a body of graduates from English Universities.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow
It is sacred ground for Englishmen—more sacred than all but one or two fields where their bones lie whitening.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
And for my conscience, a man that has slain three hundred Saracens, need not reckon up every little failing, like a village girl at her first confession upon Good Friday eve.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
“ But he is gone for ever from us!—be it so.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Inside the gates the city seemed to have burst into springtime bloom, and the populace looked like a walking garden, for every Jew carried an armful of green boughs, and in his hand a sprig of willow to be placed on the great altar.
— from The Coming of the King by Bernie Babcock
The circuit is increasing in strength; its finances, notwithstanding bad times, are in a very fair state; a good feeling exists between the members of both circuits; they have become peaceable and pachydermatous, thin-skinnedness being considered an evil; and altogether affairs are satisfactory.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus
In 1815, in the Waterloo campaign, we find a similar organization, but the Brigades were of 3 Regiments, and dearth of Cavalry and Artillery only allowed 2 Squadrons, and 1 Battery of 8 guns, for each Brigade.
— from Organization: How Armies are Formed for War by Hubert Foster
Warmth and hope and spring seemed gone for ever.
— from Heather and Snow by George MacDonald
The only objection urged against it by the Opposition was that it did not go far enough.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of
The more true meaning in my apprehension is, that the presence and worth of the human nature, being with the divine, yea, taken into union with God for ever, for the service that was done by God for it, in the world, in reconciling his elect unto him, is still, and ever will be, so deserving in his sight as to prevail—I know not how else to express it—with the divine nature, in whom alone is a power to subdue all impossibilities to itself, to preserve those so reconciled to eternal life.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan
Bradford, the historian of their colony and its Governor for eleven years, gives the chief reasons for their dispute in Holland and of their desire to remove to America.
— from The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
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