I shall arrive,--what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
Alfonso's sword had dropp'd ere he could draw it, And they continued battling hand to hand, For Juan very luckily ne'er saw it; His temper not being under great command, If at that moment he had chanced to claw it, Alfonso's days had not been in the land Much longer.—Think of husbands', lovers' lives!
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
The unborn must not be allowed to come near you: and this not so much for their protection (for they are our natural enemies), as for our own; for since they will not be utterly gainsaid, it must be seen to that they shall be quartered upon those who are least likely to corrupt them.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler
And forasmuch as we learn in our books that thou never workest miracles, but to divine and excellent end, (for the laws of nature are thine own laws, and thou exceedest them not but upon great cause,) we most humbly beseech thee to prosper this great sign, and to give us the interpretation and use of it in mercy; which thou dost in some part secretly promise by sending it unto us.'
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
what time, what circuit first, I ask not: but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet, or stifling snow, In some time—his good time—I shall arrive; He guides me and the bird.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Frederick could not be unpardonably guilty, while Henry made himself so agreeable.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
During the last week of our stay in the township of H——, he visited us every evening, and never bade us good-night without a tear moistening his cheek.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
Ware mit hoher Umschlaggeschwindigkeit fast selling goods Ware nicht ausgesondert und nicht bezeichnet unascertained goods
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
All my thoughts were now bent upon getting to the speech of my lovely Nun.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
fi illative, in that case, then, following upon, just now, for the first time; follows the verbal particles ka , ko , but a particle need not be used; gami mi fi saitamana na tala , and how shall we know the way?
— from Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens
One of Ammad's noblemen brought up Garlud's name to me during the afternoon audience."
— from The Return of Tharn by Howard Browne
When each college shall have a chair of extempore speech, and each academy shall give as much attention to unpremeditated utterances in conversation and public address as is now bestowed upon Greek or Latin, the oratory of pulpit, bar, platform, and legislature will be of a vastly higher type.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger
But we know, on the other hand, that the little Nautilus shell grows into the big one, not by uniform growth or magnification in all directions, as is (though only approximately)
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
The boys are at the Bertram School, and your neighbor Bentley Upham goes there.
— from A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda M. Douglas
The effect of debts upon 391 civilization has never been understood generally.
— from Betsy Gaskins (Dimicrat), Wife of Jobe Gaskins (Republican) Or, Uncle Tom's Cabin Up to Date by W. I. (William I.) Hood
This notorious Boxer uprising, gone now into military annals, had reached the high tide of its power.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter
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