Then, as the pianist begins to play, the others commence marching around the line of chairs, keeping time to the music.
— from Entertainments for Home, Church and School by Frederica Seeger
Then as the pianist begins to play, the others commence marching around the line of chairs, keeping time to the music.
— from How to Behave and How to Amuse: A Handy Manual of Etiquette and Parlor Games by George H. (George Henry) Sandison
Yet I have the consolation to know that my name is seldom mentioned among the literati of classical Kerry— nudis cruribus as they are—except as the Great O'Finigan!
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
I venture to say that there is nothing between cultivated men and the loss of certain knowledge of God and conviction of His Being, but the historical revelation of Jesus Christ.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
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