One day Visvakarma observed the ground to crack near him, and a kiritam or royal diadem appeared issuing out of the bowels of the earth, which Visvakarma mistook for the head of his adversary, and made a cut at it with his sword, but only struck off the kiritam.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
He himself on that night had kept on rushing down and climbing up like a squirrel, directing, encouraging, watching all along the line.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
“Keep on reminding Desdemona, and you'll soon be restored,” said Iago, adding, in a tone too low for Othello to hear, “If Bianca could set the matter right, how quickly it would mend!”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Radium compounds send forth three kinds of rays, distinguished as alpha , beta , and gamma rays.
— from The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
He was generally looked on as one who made his bed aggressively among heretics, as a kind of Rabelaisian dissenter, as a settled interrupter, half-rude and half-jesting.
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
227 THE movement of life has its rest in its own music. 228 KICKS only raise dust and not crops from the earth. 229 OUR names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature. 230 LET him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose. 231 SET bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
— from Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore
Also a kinde of round dance as our hay.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio
Though great progress has been made during the last five-and-twenty years in the pursuit of apiculture, much remains to be done, particularly in spreading far and wide a knowledge of recent discoveries, and attempting to induce a more general adoption of this most profitable and interesting occupation.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 698 May 12, 1877 by Various
Then if he had two watches, he might keep one regulated daily, and leave the other unaltered; the former would indicate the hour of the place in which he was situated, and the latter the hour at London; and by comparing them together, he would be able to calculate his longitude.
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet
This person, who is a kind of respectable doorkeeper, addressed me in broken English, without waiting for the evidence of my tongue, that I was a foreigner, and, after inquiring at what price I would have a room, introduced me to the landlady, who took me across a large court (the houses are built round the yard always in France), to the corresponding story of the house.
— from Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Nathaniel Parker Willis
The heart was oppressed with this constant reminder that safety could only be secured by great care and trouble— safety for the little personal self; protection from all kinds of robbery, depredation, and attack; beware of pickpockets, the proprietor is not responsible for overcoats and umbrellas even!
— from A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote) by Algernon Blackwood
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