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Nay indeed Lysias observing the

Nay, indeed, Lysias observing the great spirit of the Jews, how they were prepared to die rather than lose their liberty, and being afraid of their desperate way of fighting, as if it were real strength, he took the rest of the army back with him, and returned to Antioch, where he listed foreigners into the service, and prepared to fall upon Judea with a greater army.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Nothing is lost of the

Nothing is lost of the sharp wrangle of the counsel on points of law, the measured decision’s of the bench; the duels between the attorneys and the witnesses.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

now in laying open the

“These things are reciprocal; the ball rebounds, only to bound forward again; for now in laying open the haunts of the whale, the whalemen seem to have indirectly hit upon new clews to that same mystic North-West Passage.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

nose in lieu of trunk

Looking round him, he there beheld a signboard on which the painter’s art had delineated something remotely resembling a cerulean elephant with an aquiline nose in lieu of trunk.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

neglect if lagging on the

Through your neglect, if lagging on the plain The last ignoble gift be all we gain, No more shall Nestor's hand your food supply, The old man's fury rises, and ye die.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Now I looked on the

Now, I looked on the evening star, as softly and calmly it hung pendulous in the orange hues of sunset.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

not in length of time

The first age, as the first day, extends from Adam to the deluge; the second from the deluge to Abraham, equalling the first, not in length of time, but in the number of generations, there being ten in each.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

notes in luxury of tears

So may no ruffian-feeling in my breast, Discordant, jar thy bosom-chords among; But Peace attune thy gentle soul to rest, Or Love, ecstatic, wake his seraph song, Or Pity's notes, in luxury of tears, As modest Want the tale of woe reveals; While conscious Virtue all the strains endears, And heaven-born Piety her sanction seals.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

night is lack of the

but that I know the more one sickens the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred. TOUCHSTONE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

name if love offer though

If the soul's desire be towards the love of his name, if love offer, though a farthing, his love receiving it counts it a crown.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Nausicaa in London or the

Woman’s Work in a Country Parish 3 The Science of Health 21 The Two Breaths 49 Thrift 77 Nausicaa in London; or, the Lower Education of Women 107
— from Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

now in light of the

Let us now, in light of the foregoing examples, see how one can, while beginning the practice of independent agriculture, lessen one's ties with the city to the maximum possible extent.
— from Down with the Cities! by Tadashi Nakashima

no inconsiderable length of time

How long I remained absent I had no idea, but it was no inconsiderable length of time.
— from The Rustlers of Pecos County by Zane Grey

NOTE II LEGEND OF THE

NOTE II LEGEND OF THE ALTAR DEL PERDON Simon Peyrens, a Flemish painter, came to Mexico in the suite of the third Viceroy (1566-1568)
— from Legends of the City of Mexico by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Nothing is lost on these

Nothing is lost on these intelligent rogues.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

new imaginative literature occupying the

Deism, remaining fashionable, did but fall partly into the background of living interests, the more concrete issues of politics and the new imaginative literature occupying the foreground.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

now I lingered on the

And now I lingered on the lake a wild, sad song to hear, And deemed it all too sweet for sound of this terrestrial sphere.
— from The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone by Alexander Craig Gibson

neighbourhood I left our tents

Wishing to examine several ruins in the neighbourhood I left our tents early on the [Pg 187] following morning, and rode to the mound of Abd-ul-Azeez, about eight or nine miles distant, and on the road between Baghdad and Arbil.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

nothing is left of the

When the sun is gone, the red deepens [324] to the velvet of a dark June rose, and the western sky is flame, not light; but hurrying night has chilled the east behind you, and now every ripple is violet blue on its hither side, the golden glow recedes further and further towards the west, is sucked away in the trail of the sun at last, and then nothing is left of the day but a forsaken sweep of primrose and the wraith of a new-born star.
— from Italian Yesterdays, vol. 2 by Fraser, Hugh, Mrs.

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