Albert J. Beveridge, the junior United States Senator from Indiana, entered college with no other capital than fifty dollars loaned to him by a friend.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
Ben Jonson und seine Schule. Leipzig, 1836.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
There are public petitions or remonstrances, private emissaries and associations; there is discontent, jealousy, uncertainty, sullen suspicious humour.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
The connection with Machiavelli’s novella of Belfagor was pointed out by Count Baudissin, [14] Ben Jonson und seine Schule , Leipzig 1836, and has been worked out exhaustively by Dr. E. Hollstein in a Halle dissertation, 1901.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
A man of a prodigious fortune coming to give his judgment upon some slight dispute that was foolishly set on foot at his table, began in these words: “It can be no other but a liar or a fool that will say otherwise than so and so.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
JOHNSON Upper Seymour Street.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen
Baudissin, Count von, Ben Jonson und seine Schule , xxii .
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
] W OLF Why are you crying, my dear Mrs.—— [ He looks questioningly at M ARIE over J ULIE ’ S shoulder.
— from Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue by Ferenc Molnár
Consulting the skies again, he decided to leave one of the jibs up, so set it once more and took another reef in the mainsail, thus shortening the latter considerably.
— from The Meadow-Brook Girls by the Sea; Or, The Loss of The Lonesome Bar by Janet Aldridge
"Cleveland will certainly join us?" said Shelby, as, in the vacancy of the hour, he had fallen into company with his brother officers, who were now assembled on the margin of the brook.
— from Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
Cora jumped up so suddenly that she disturbed Bess who was leaning against her.
— from The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise; Or, The Cave in the Mountains by Margaret Penrose
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