With its Phantom chased forever more, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the soul of the plot.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
With its Phantom chased for evermore, By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe
“Hm... yes, that’s true,” he continued, pursuing the whirling ideas that chased each other in his brain, “it is true that ‘it needs time and care to get to know a man,’ but there is no mistake about Mr. Luzhin.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
So too those who have covered and saved any citizens or allies are distinguished by the Consul with certain presents; Civic crown. and those whom they have preserved present them voluntarily with a crown, or if not, they are compelled to do so by the Tribunes.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius
It needs thought and care to keep the parish and the sermon thus en rapport .
— from To My Younger Brethren: Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule
" What is not true, Alan Carmichael?" "That that was he who died in the wood yonder."
— from Green Fire: A Romance by William Sharp
The agent then consults the other partners: if a majority of them approve the proceedings of the agent, the discontented partner is bound to submit: if not, the agent ceases to exercise the disputed power.
— from Strictures on Nullification by Alexander Hill Everett
His Royal Highness, resolute for getting in, manoeuvres and investigates, all Monday 10th; his cannon is not to arrive completely till night; otherwise he would be for breaking in at once: a fearless young man, fearless as ever his poor Father was; certainly a man SANS PEUY, this one too; whether of much AVIS, we shall see anon.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
Is not that a curious thing?
— from Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton
And that wych is beyond the chappell, is not there a chambre, the wyche ye shall see when ye have digged full deepe.
— from The Gate of Remembrance The Story of the Psychological Experiment which Resulted in the Discovery of the Edgar Chapel at Glastonbury by Frederick Bligh Bond
From a personal feeling of safety and security in intuition and of dissatisfaction with intellectual efforts, the transition is natural to a conviction that the trouble is in the essential nature of intellect.
— from Humanistic Studies of the University of Kansas, Vol. 1 by Pearl Hogrefe
With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot; And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.
— from Poets of the South A Series of Biographical and Critical Studies with Typical Poems, Annotated by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter
The exercise of this supervision could scarce fail to lead, if not to abuses, certainly to collisions perilous to the peaceful relations of the two States.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant
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