Plate 54 shows the position and surroundings of the village of Salube (community of Auga), and is a good representative example, except that the plate does not show any open grassland.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson
No doctrine is enforced in the poem with more sincerity of conviction than that of the happiness and dignity of plain and natural living, the vanity of all the appliances of wealth, and their inability to give real enjoyment either to body or mind.
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar
the anecdote of the Sire de Boissy related by P. Sala in his collection, Les hardiesses des grands rois et empereurs ( Trial , vol.
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France
Are you not, by virtue of their aristocratic institutions, nearer having your poems published, your genius recognized, etc. etc., than ever you were before?" "Aristocrats?
— from Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography by Charles Kingsley
The grapple resisted every effort to dislodge it, and finally I started up, insisting on my turn as leader.
— from The Moon Metal by Garrett Putman Serviss
In this manner the worst problems on which general peace depends would be solved, and with these problems that of armaments, which it would no longer be dangerous nor humiliating to reduce if the general reduction, extending even to Japan and seconded by all the republics of the New World, were agreed to by all.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various
Throughout South America it is one of the most abundant species, its geographical range extending even to Cape Horn.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway
Gabriel returned every evening to the upper cloister, wearied out with walking the length and breadth of the Cathedral.
— from The Shadow of the Cathedral by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
"He's gone right enough," exclaimed Terence, as they "drew blank.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
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