On the 21st, at a dinner given by Mr I. L. Goldsmid, he met Lord Holland, Sir Robert Wilson, A. J. Robarts, —— Tooke, John Abel Smith, Macaulay, Easthope, Robinson (the member for Worcester), Dr Lushington, and Lord Nugent, all of them most friendly to the cause.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady
So you pays down so much for to join and so much every month in dues and soon then—to hear him tell it—you will be happy on your way across the ocean to find your haven in the Promised Land.
— from J. Poindexter, Colored by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
I let fall my under jaw, and sot my eyes as wild as a madman, and twisted my whole face out of joint—and began to clap my hands, and hurra for the red coats, like a natural fool.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
The second is a harmonized inversion of the same short figure, preceded by a jubilantly ascending scale:— [Musical excerpt]
— from A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel
And Channing Warrick, Junior, aged seven, made effort to remove Dorothea Warrick, aged ten, from her point of vantage next her uncle's right hand.
— from The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher
Would you die of joy at seeing me, eh, little black neb?' CHAPTER XII
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
The Uhlans, at sound of Winterfeld, jingled away at once: but, in a day or two, there came upon him, on the sudden, Pandour outburst in quite other force;—and in the very hours while Ziethen was struggling into Jagerndorf, and still more emphatically next day, while Margraf Karl was handling his Pandours,—Colonel Winterfeld, a hundred miles to westward lapped among the Mountains, chanced to be dealing again with the same article.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
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