The king remained in his palace while the whole court went after the human god.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
But in silence, in dreams' projections, While the world of gain and appearance and mirth goes on, So soon what is over forgotten, and waves wash the imprints off the sand, With hinged knees returning I enter the doors, (while for you up there, Whoever you are, follow without noise and be of strong heart.)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
“Well, then, this man Kasabwaybwayreta remained in the island Gabula.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski
Wà giyud kuy rauk, I don’t have a cent.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Mupánas kanang salapì ug isígi nímug bagnus, That fifty-cent piece will get worn down if you keep rubbing it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
But the King replied: “I have seen the whole castle, and shall find out what is in there”; and with these words he approached the door and wanted to force it open.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
Die Erinnerung ist das einzige / Paradies, aus dem wir nicht vertrieben werden kann —Remembrance is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
Photographed by Elizabeth W. Trescot facing 406 French Homestead, Kingston, Rhode Island, with Old Stone Terrace Wall.
— from Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
Then, on a sudden, the answering shout of the Orsini, the standard of the Bear, the Bourbon lilies of Anjou, the scarlet and white colours of the Guelph house, the great black horses, and the dark mail—the enemies surging together in the street like swift rivers of loose iron meeting in a stone channel, with a rending crash and the quick hammering of steel raining desperate blows on steel—horses rearing their height, footmen crushed, knights reeling in the saddle, sparks flying, steel-clad arms and long
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Why do'st thou say, King Richard is depos'd, Dar'st thou, thou little better thing then earth, Diuine his downfall?
— from Richard II by William Shakespeare
The Koto river is almost as large as the continuation of the Ubangi and rises far away up north.
— from A Journal of a Tour in the Congo Free State by Marcus Roberts Phipps Dorman
160 I knelt, implored, embraced my guardian's knees; Ruthless inquisitor, he held the keys Of the dark torture-house.
— from The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by William Lisle Bowles
" The king replies, "It appears to me, Erling, that thou thinkest the case of Asbjorn is now in thy own power, and I do not therefore know why thou speakest now as if thou wouldst offer terms for him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Not a hundredth part of the population, says Kämpfer, remained in the city.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
There is an interesting essay on "Publication before Printing" by R. K. Root in the Publi
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes
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