There is then no just ground for surprise if a man, who in an age of aristocracy chooses to consult nothing but his own opinion and his own taste in the choice of a wife, soon finds that infractions of morality and domestic wretchedness invade his household: but when this same line of action is in the natural and ordinary course of things, when it is sanctioned by parental authority and backed by public opinion, it cannot be doubted that the internal peace of families will be increased by it, and conjugal fidelity more rigidly observed.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville
As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be composed of the most enlightened and respectable citizens, there is reason to presume that their attention and their votes will be directed to those men only who have become the most distinguished by their abilities and virtue, and in whom the people perceive just grounds for confidence.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton
“She has spoken, Muck-a-Muck,” said the Judge, gazing fondly on his daughter.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte
Besides, I would not let you break your neck, it would be a pity!" said our host, at that moment of inward gratification affecting, as his habit was, a studied brusqueness and even coarseness of speech which he thought in keeping with a jolly good fellow and an old soldier, and which he imagined to be particularly attractive to the ladies.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Besides, the reason that Josephus gives for this adoration, that these two kings had been great benefactors to the inhabitants of Damascus, and had built them temples, is too remote from the political suspicions of Le Clerc; nor ought such weak suspicions to be deemed of any force against authentic testimonies of antiquity.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Compare J. G. Frazer, &147;The Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa,”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
GEIRVIMUL, a river rushing or vibrating like a spear or javelin. GELGJA, from galgi, a gallows.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson
gearwungdæg (eo 1 ) m. parasceve , JnR. + gearwungnes f. preparation . gearwutol austere , LkL 19 21,22 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
what a good joke goes forward.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
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— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes
It might—it may be even now just gradually fading away.
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare
"It's no canny to see you standing just glowering frae ye, as we say in the country.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
The judge got first a reprieve and then a pardon.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir
How long is this job good for?” “All summer and more.
— from Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams
1. With a holy and just God; for he is the judge of all, and his eyes are purer than to behold iniquity; yea, his very essence and presence is a consuming fire; yet, before and with this God, and
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan
[365] J. G. Frazer in Encyclop.
— from The Sacred Tree; or, the tree in religion and myth by Philpot, J. H., Mrs.
It was a jolly good fight, wasn’t it?”
— from The Red Symbol by John Ironside
That chap who has just gone for the sheep is the only great man we have about this farm."
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper
Capt. Henry D. Landis; 20th Inf., Col. William B. Thomas; 26th Inf., Col. William W. Jennings; 27th Inf., Col. Jacob G. Frick; 28th Inf., Col. James Chamberlin; 29th Inf., Col. Joseph W. Hawley; 30th Inf., Col. William N. Monies; 31st Inf., Col. John Newkumet; 33d Inf.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet
For he’s a jolly good fellow .
— from Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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