Then when I look on Yama, I To great Vivasvat's son will cry: “Hear, King of justice, and restore Our child to feed us, I implore.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
In these cases the junction and rows of cartilage cells are often completely disorganized, causing a marked macroscopic deformity of the bone.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess
And our parents indeed have, with the assistance of the gods, given us our life; but to live well comes to us from reason, which we have learned from the philosophers, which favors law and justice, and restrains our concupiscence.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Gregory XIII granting plenary absolution from all their sins to English Papists, as they were unable to attend the Pope's jubilee at Rome, on condition that they should recite the Rosary fifteen times.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
The greater part of the inhabitants of the district through which we were journeying, are rearers of cattle ( criadores de gado ), but none of them possess such immense herds as I afterwards found to exist in the provinces of Piauhy and Goyaz.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner
Four million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the judgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways of the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts!
— from The American Missionary — Volume 38, No. 01, January, 1884 by Various
When we thought we had just about reached our camping ground for the night, we came to a guide post which showed it still to be seven kilometres on.
— from The Pipes of War A Record of Achievements of Pipers of Scottish and Overseas Regiments during the War, 1914-18 by John (Pipe-Major) Grant
One of the gamest buyers I know of was the late John A. Rice of Chicago.
— from The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac by Eugene Field
Consequently, that extent of legal knowledge, correctness of judgment, and respectability of character, which should designate the persons qualified for this important trust were seldom to be found, but in men far advanced in years.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 2 (of 16) by United States. Congress
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