It is all false, all a lie, all hatched up by enemies of the Jews in order to stir up hatred and murder.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous
Hace usted bien en traducírmelo—dijo Pepe,—porque entiendo muy poco el latín.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
— N. philanthropy, humanity, humanitarianism universal benevolence; endaemonism[obs3], deliciae humani generis[Lat]; cosmopolitanism, utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
Then breaking his command of silence given, She told him all that Earl Limours had said, Except the passage that he loved her not; Nor left untold the craft herself had used; But ended with apology so sweet, Low-spoken, and of so few words, and seemed So justified by that necessity, That though he thought 'was it for him she wept In Devon?'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
When therefore it is said that the prominence given to the proclamation of the Messiah’s kingdom is a main link which connects Essenism and Christianity, we may dismiss the statement as a mere hypothesis, unsupported by evidence and improbable in itself.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
Although there is no direct mention of the C. as an article of diet it has undoubtedly been eaten same as crane, egrets, flamingo and similar birds CINARA, CYNARA, artichoke CINNAMONUM, cinnamon CIRCELLOS ISICATOS, a sausage, ℞ 65 CITREA MALA, citron; see CITRUM CITREUS, citron tree CITRUM, CITRIUM, the fruit of the CITREUS, citron, citrus, ℞ 23 , 81 , 168 .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
Mr. Fink-Nottle had undoubtedly become embarrassingly personal."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
And when another gentleman thought he was giving additional force to what he uttered, by expressive movements of his hands, Johnson fairly seized them, and held them down.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell
The thing was hushed up, but, egad, Kelso ate his chop alone at the club for some time afterwards.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
She concluded that Madam Lard would make a point of not leaving me as great a fool as she found me, and, some way or other, contrive to make herself understood; but exclusive of the consideration that it was not just, that another should undertake the instruction of her pupil, she had motives more worthy of her, wishing to guard me against the snares to which my youth and inexperience exposed me.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It was a very history of the heart!—of a heart untainted by error—unsophisticated by fashion—unfettered by the world's ways: a little catalogue of woman's best, and tenderest, and holiest feelings, warm from the spirit's core, and welling out like the pure waters of a ground spring.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 265, July 21, 1827 by Various
The Boy bent low over the squirming pair and his voice was in perfect tune with his dog's low growl: "Eat him up, Bone! Eat him alive!"
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
This wonderful charm not only brought him good luck in everything he undertook, but enabled him to give a wide berth to those who sought to do him harm, and to turn the tables upon them whenever he saw fit to do so.
— from Marcy the Blockade Runner by Harry Castlemon
Would 'a hurt him pow'ful to see you in this bunch; hurts us 'bout enough, I reckon."
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson
But he’s cursed with an idea that he is a diplomatist, in which he has unfortunately been encouraged by our foolish Government, who have joined him in a commission with his brother, the Minister at Constantinople, because he knows a little of the Turk and his lingo.”
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen
Do not think of me; nor am I quite inexperienced in these matters, in too many of which I have unfortunately been engaged in Germany.’
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
Youth that with joys had unacquainted been, Envied gray hairs that once good days had seen: We thought our sires, not with their own content, Had, ere we came to age, our portion spent.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
I said that I was, but wouldn't harrow him up by explaining that I was ravenous.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
Always after his impulsive outbreaks he became so contrite that the early displeasure was abated by his unspoken but evident desire for forgiveness.
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt
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