So I triumph'd, ere my passion sweeping thro' me left me dry, Left me with the palsied heart, and left me with the jaundiced eye; Eye, to which all order festers, all things here are out of joint, Science moves, but slowly slowly, creeping on from point to point: Slowly comes a hungry people, as a lion, creeping nigher, 11 Glares at one that nods and winks behind a slowly-dying fire.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
Jones, E. E. The Influence of Bodily Posture on Mental Activities.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
[“You may discern the torments of mind lurking in a sick body; you may discern its joys: either expression the face assumes from the mind.”—Juvenal, ix.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
Far and wide, road upon road coiled and wound; while the green pines swept the eaves, the jady epidendrum encompassed the steps, the animals' faces glistened like gold, and the dragons' heads shone resplendent in their variegated hues.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao
but you should regard me rather as 123 a follower who has just eyes enough to see what you show him—that is about as much as I am good for.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion|, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation[obs3], march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation[obs3], noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
In a country where Phrygia, Persia, Syria, all in turn had moulded religious thought, it would be strange indeed if Judaism entirely escaped these influences.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
“Have you any one to go on your bond?” demanded the judge, and then a clerk who stood at Jurgis' elbow explained to him what this meant.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Ibi T. R. E. jacebat Englefield, et tota erat wasta.
— from The Early Norman Castles of the British Isles. by Ella S. Armitage
And the same may also seem a preposterous expression unto all who do not consider the various Agriculture, and different Husbandry of Nations, and such as was practised in Ægypt , and fairly proved to have been also used in Judæa , wherein their Barley Harvest was before that of Wheat; as is confirmable from that expression in Ruth , that she came into Bethlehem at the [255] beginning of Barley Harvest , and staid unto the end of Wheat Harvest; from the death of Manasses the Father of Judith , Emphatically expressed to have happened in the Wheat Harvest, and more advanced heat of the Sun; and from the custom of the Jews, to offer the Barley Sheaf of the first fruits in March , and a Cake of Wheat Flower but at the end of Pentecost .
— from The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, Volume 3 by Browne, Thomas, Sir
Besides everybody calls them Reggie, and Stuyve, and Jack——" "Everybody except their mothers, probably.
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
It was not strange that they should not invite her into their confidence if they had some dark work ahead of them; but it was exceedingly suspicious that Joe Rix attempted to pass off their whispers by immediately breaking off the soft talk and springing into the midst of a full-fledged jest; also, it was strangest of all that when the jest ended even the Pedlar, who rarely smiled, now laughed uproariously and smote Joe soundingly upon the back.
— from Gunman's Reckoning by Max Brand
After having been a student in the law office of George Wythe, and being a friend of Patrick Henry, Jefferson early espoused the cause of the Revolution, and it was his hand that drafted the Declaration of Independence.
— from The Fathers of the Constitution: A Chronicle of the Establishment of the Union by Max Farrand
but you should regard me rather as a follower who has just eyes enough to, see what you show him—that is about as much as I am good for.
— from The Republic by Plato
Even if she possess as much knowledge, she may have to labour as well as her husband, and if their joint earnings enable them to have “the added pudding,” there is still the trouble of making it; and, after a weary week’s work, rest is often a greater enjoyment than a gratification of the palate.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew
As the festivities proceed, and Zerlina, watched by Masetto's jealous eyes, endeavours to elude Don Giovanni's pursuit of her until he leads her to the dance and then carries her off, 163 the complicated situation is characterised, as a whole, with firm and distinct touches, and the individual points are allowed to fall into the background.
— from Life of Mozart, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Otto Jahn
In the North it was impossible for the Democrats to succeed with the Southern platform, but in the South it was, in their judgment, entirely easy to carry the Douglas platform.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine
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