"litha" hidden in books

Lily is too handsome and

Every one knows, as you say, that Lily is too handsome and—and charming—to devote herself to a man like Gus Trenor unless—" "Unless?" echoed Mrs. Peniston.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

locked into the house and

So down to supper, and sent for the barber, who staid so long with me that he was locked into the house, and we were fain to call up Griffith, to let him out.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

laboured in the hair and

And although statues are often destroyed by fires and by the ruin and fury of war, and buried or transported to diverse places, nevertheless it is easy for the experienced to recognize the difference in the manner of all countries; as, for example, the Egyptian is slender and lengthy in its figures, the Greek is scientific and shows much study in the nudes, while the heads have almost all the same expression, and the most ancient Tuscan is laboured in the hair and somewhat uncouth.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

luck in the house and

Note that the house-door must not face towards the south; if it faces southwards there will be no luck in the house and everything will go wrong.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

left it to Hypsipyle and

The Graces with their own hands had wrought it for Dionysus in sea-girt Dia, and he gave it to his son Thoas thereafter, and Thoas left it to Hypsipyle, and she gave that fair-wrought guest-gift with many another marvel to Aeson's son to wear.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

lost in thought hearing and

She seemed to be lost in thought, hearing and seeing nothing.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

live in the herd and

We call the disposition to live in the herd and to move in masses, gregariousness, and this gregariousness is ordinarily regarded as an instinct and undoubtedly is pretty largely determined in the original nature
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

low in the heavens and

It was low in the heavens, and I calculated that in less than an hour it would lie just above the topmost branches of the old oak.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Letellier is there Hébert and

is there with his mother, Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is there, Hébert and Maillard are there, scratching the stones, and trying to make the traces of their actions disappear.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

late in the hot afternoon

It was late in the hot afternoon when Mrs. Foxwell answered the message by coming to the police station herself.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

lances in their hands amongst

It was this: “that as often as he held the consulship, Roman knights, chosen by lot, should walk before him, clad in the Trabea, with lances in their hands, amongst his lictors and apparitors.”
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

lanterns in their hands accenting

The immense dim space in which we stood, the half-seen figures of the visitors, the professor and his attendants, with lanterns in their hands, accenting the gloom by the very light itself, made up a weird picture.
— from A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by J. Harris (John Harris) Knowles

looked in the haymow and

Out to the barn trooped the children, but though they looked in the haymow, and in the empty stalls (for most of the horses were out at work)
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue by Laura Lee Hope

look in the houses and

It is a novelty to look in the houses and see the family circles gathered in their homes, all smoking and talking but the babies.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

left in the haste at

Raven and I were forward with the men, busy with the many little things yet to be done to the rigging and such like that had been left in the haste at last, and there was no thought but that this quiet, save for some shift of wind maybe, would last until we saw the English shore.
— from Havelok the Dane A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

lying in the harbour as

There were on board with us the Captain of the Port, Dom Francisco de Perura Pinto, the captains of the Brazilian men-of-war lying in the harbour, as also several members of the Historico-Geographical Institute.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

lightning illumining the hall and

She grasped the villain's collar, and at the very moment a flash of lightning illumining the hall and falling full upon her white dress—he staggered back, exclaiming, with an oath—'It's Mrs. Caldwell, that we killed to-day!'
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

less indebted to him as

Let me consider him as much in my debt as I pleased for delivering him from a Turkish prison; I was no less indebted to him, as it was from him I had learnt how to eat!’
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

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