p. 262.—"Congruè sanè locus ille Gemmeticus est dictus, quippe qui instar gemmarum multivario sit decore conspicuus.
— from Account of a Tour in Normandy, Volume 2 by Dawson Turner
To our surprise we found hanging on the wall facing the door a caustic drawing on wood bearing the legend in German: "Ehret die Frauen, sie flechten und weben himmlische Rosen ins irdische Leben."
— from A German deserter's war experience by Anonymous
“Your little Indian girl!” exclaimed Dorothy Morton, surprised into talking.
— from The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires; Or, The Ghost of Lost Man's Trail by Laura Dent Crane
The lumber industry gives employment, during the winter months, when most other work is slack, to over twenty thousand men, in addition to the thousands of log-drivers required every spring to take the season’s cut down the rivers to market.
— from Canada and the British immigrant by Emily P. (Emily Poynton) Weaver
He disliked the old term homoousios to describe the relation between the Persons in the Trinity, and preferred the word “oneness” ; 424 he even disliked the term Trinity, or at least its German equivalents, Dreifaltigkeit
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 1 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay
He now commenced his labors in good earnest, daily addressing crowded audiences; and soon he baptized his brother Orson, a youth of nineteen, but to-day a venerable apostle—the Paul of Mormondom.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge
Their greatest pleasure seems to have lain in gossiping, eating, drinking, and generally struggling to kill time.
— from Venice by Dorothy Menpes
"The lad is good enough, d'ye
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton
As on through life I go each day, And here and there pursue my way, Like to that busy bee.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various
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