H2 anchor Christian Kings Have Power To Execute All Manner Of Pastoral Function
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
After dinner to the office, and anon with my wife and sister abroad, left them in Paternoster Row, while Creed, who was with me at the office, and I to Westminster; and leaving him in the Strand, I to my Lord Chancellor’s, and did very little business, and so away home by water, with more and more pleasure, I every time reading over my Lord Bacon’s “Faber Fortunae.” So home, and there did little business, and then walked an hour talking of sundry things in the garden, and find him a cunning knave, as I always observed him to be, and so home to supper, and to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
And begob there he was passing the door with his books under his oxter and the wife beside him and Corny Kelleher with his wall eye looking in as they went past, talking to him like a father, trying to sell him a secondhand coffin.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
I have never in my earlier days had a close knowledge of class antagonism, but now I am tormented by something of that sort.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Bloom with his hand assuralooms Corny Kelleher that he is reassuraloomtay.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
I had another calf killed; this one was led away.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
The God who gave it into our hands, He alone can know.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
On several evenings after that, I visited Sripati's house, and, calling Kusum to me, discussed with her matters relating to you, and so I succeeded in gradually overcoming her shyness.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY KREHBIEL'S CHAPTERS OF OPERA
— from Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W. J. (William James) Henderson
But when you look at him more closely, you see that he has a clear, kind blue eye and a most honest, friendly face under his slouch hat.
— from Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness by Henry Van Dyke
I would fain trifle, Darsie; for, in debating with you, jests will sometimes go farther than arguments; but I am sick at heart and cannot keep the ball up.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott
In general the wild cat did not need to use his ball, for the lion was fond of hunting, and could kill all the food that they needed; but now and then his life would have been in danger had it not been for the golden ball.
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
For, neither had he a complete knowledge of the ancient Scottish language, nor was his literary conscience sufficiently tender and scrupulous to that fidelity, which is required by the office of editor.
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay
and that is: to have a certain kind of capacity and to use it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
John seized his hat and called Kitty, Kitty, Kitty!
— from Celibates by George Moore
Governor Ludwell, who was a man of great humanity, and considerable knowledge and experience in provincial affairs, by those large estates which were allowed the leading men, and the many indulgences he was authorized to grant to others, had the good fortune to allay the ferment among the people, and reconcile them to the proprietors.
— from An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 by Alexander Hewatt
The history of Zara now consists of conquests and reconquests between the Republic of Saint Mark and the Hungarian and Croatian kings.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman
His utterance, which had a certain kind of cultivation, here grew thick and harsh again, and he looked eagerly at the bottle which stood on the counter.
— from A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte
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