Cheama is Kima; Carachita is Karakitang; Para still retains that name, or is called Pala; Zanghalura is Sangalong or Sangaluan; Ciau is Siao or Sian; Paghinzara (so called by Albo, ut supra ) figures on Valentyn’s map ( ut supra , note 457) as Pangasare, though the same island seems also to be called Tagulanda, so that Guillemard is right in his identification of this island; it is identified with the island of Roang by the British Admiralty map of 1890, while Mosto conjectures that it may be the island of Biaro.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
Abad′don (Heb. destruction), the name given in Rev. ix.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various
" "You have no reason to remind me of that, Mr. Talboys," answered Robert, gravely; "I remember it only too well.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
“Creation being granted,” I replied, in spite of the mercury, “such a question is childish, for the seasons are relative, and differ in the different quarters of the globe.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
For this is the one principal consolation of a faithful soul, so long as it is absent from Thee in mortal body, that being continually mindful of its God, it receiveth its Beloved with devout spirit.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
"For the sake of the House of Commons at large," said Mr. Gladstone, "I rejoiced in his advent and deplored his disappearance.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
I spared no pains, indeed, in this piece of fruitless toil, and spent, I think, three or four weeks about it; at last finding it impossible to heave it up with my little strength, I fell to digging away the sand, to undermine it, and so to make it fall down, setting pieces of wood to thrust and guide it right in the fall.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
You have possibly had other guns in reserve in case there should be several tigers, or in the unlikely supposition of your own aim failing you.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
[496] "I directed the attention of the Government to this dead skeleton, shewing that I could not receive this book as my guide in religious instruction.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
The gentle air, which brightens each green hill, Wakening the flowers that paint this bowery glade, I recognise it by its soft breath still, My sorrow and renown which long has made: Again where erst my sick heart shelter sought, From my dear native Tuscan air I flee: That light may cheer my dark and troubled thought, I seek my sun, and hope to-day to see.
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca
The chief colors are pink, lilac, green, iron red, Indian ink, gold and black.
— from The Ceramic Art A Compendium of The History and Manufacture of Pottery and Porcelain by Jennie J. Young
“He has gone into retreat, in the cloisters attached to the cathedral, and it is the imperial will that none disturb him on worldly affairs.
— from The Strong Arm by Robert Barr
Games involving rivalry increased rapidly among boys from eleven to sixteen and still more rapidly among girls, their percentage of preference even exceeding that of boys at eighteen, when it reached nearly seventy per cent.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall
Management und Gewerkschaft industrial revolution industrielle Revolution industrial training gewerbliche
— from Mr. Honey's Small Business Dictionary (English-German) by Winfried Honig
Matter is not the reflection of Spirit, yet God is reflected in all His 524:24 creation.
— from Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy
Till the time of Philip, the father of Alexander, Macedonia does not appear to have had any connexion with the rest of this celebrated portion of the ancient world; the Greeks, indeed, regarded its inhabitants as savages; but from that period, Macedonia became the most important and influential state in Greece.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
Gradually its rootlets intertwined themselves with the fibres of my very being, and finally they took deep root in my soul.
— from A Baptist Abroad: Travels and Adventures of Europe and all Bible Lands by Walter Andrew Whittle
1), to make you say, “The Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice,
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
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