They even put a policeman on board of our boat to keep an eye on us as long as we were in the Capri dominions. — from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
opening by one of
The femoral vein, O, Plate 30, is separated from the falciform margin, S s , of the saphenous opening by one of these septa. — from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise
of being otherwise out
Thence to the Treasurer’s; and I and Sir J. Minnes and Mr. Tippets down to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and there had a hot debate from Sir Thomas Clifford and my Lord Ashly (the latter of which, I hear, is turning about as fast as he can to the Duke of Buckingham’s side, being in danger, it seems, of being otherwise out of play, which would not be convenient for him), against Sir W. Coventry and Sir J. Duncomb, who did uphold our Office against an accusation of our Treasurers, who told the Lords that they found that we had run the King in debt L50,000 or more, more than the money appointed for the year would defray, which they declared like fools, and with design to hurt us, though the thing is in itself ridiculous. — from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
old biscuit out of
Then he starts scraping a few bits of old biscuit out of the bottom of a Jacobs’ tin he told Terry to bring. — from Ulysses by James Joyce
His boystrous club, so buried in the ground, He could not rearen up againe so light, But that the knight him at avantage found, 85 And whiles he strove his combred clubbe to quight Out of the earth, with blade all burning bright He smote off his left arme, which like a blocke Did fall to ground, depriv'd of native might; Large streames of bloud out of the truncked stocke 90 Forth gushed, like fresh water streame from riven rocke. — from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
of being one of
Perhaps the justest remark in that just appreciation is where he gives Stendhal the merit of being one of the first Frenchmen to travel littérairement — from On Love by Stendhal
ones breakfast out of
“Now, my little friend, while the sun drinks the dew—while all the flowers in this old garden awake and expand, and the birds fetch their young ones’ breakfast out of the Thornfield, and the early bees do their first spell of work—I’ll put a case to you, which you must endeavour to suppose your own: but first, look at me, and tell me you are at ease, and not fearing that I err in detaining you, or that you err in staying.” — from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë
out by one or
Their two confidential friends, Mr Shepherd, who lived in the neighbouring market town, and Lady Russell, were called to advise them; and both father and daughter seemed to expect that something should be struck out by one or the other to remove their embarrassments and reduce their expenditure, without involving the loss of any indulgence of taste or pride. — from Persuasion by Jane Austen
of being one of
Besides, it had been calculated that five hundred deaths per day, out of a million of men, was not quite one death per thousand, and, taking everything into consideration, one had far more chance of being one of the thousand living souls — from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas
of Beethoven outside one
Everywhere was lavished the luxury of flowers, paintings, marbles, and the costliest decoration of all kinds; beyond, in a superb hall, the finest orchestra on the Continent was playing the divine music of Beethoven; outside, one of the loveliest gardens in the world offered itself to those who wished to stroll awhile. — from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson
other books on other
The subject, i.e. , political economy, interests me so little that, though I have read at various times and in sundry places publications of the same nature with much attention, they, in common with other books on other subjects for which I do not care, have left not the slightest trace upon my memory; at least, until I come to read the matter all over again, when my knowledge of it reappears, as it were, on the surface of my mind, though it had seemed to me to run through my brain like water through a sieve. — from Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
old but only old
Of which spire the largeness and age are also opposed exactly to the chief appearances of modern England, as one feels them on first returning to it; that marvellous smallness both of houses and scenery, so that a ploughman in the valley has his head on a level with the tops of all the hills in the neighborhood; and a house is organized into complete establishment,—parlor, kitchen, and all, with a knocker to its door, and a garret window to its roof, and a bow to its second story, 3 on a scale of twelve feet wide by fifteen high, so that three such at least would go into the granary of an ordinary Swiss cottage: and also our serenity of perfection, our peace of conceit, everything being done that vulgar minds can conceive as wanting to be done; the spirit of well-principled housemaids everywhere, exerting itself for perpetual propriety and renovation, so that nothing is old, but only "old-fashioned," and contemporary, as it were, in date and impressiveness only with last year's bonnets. — from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin
or badge of office
The speaker stood up when he addressed the assembly, laid over his shoulder his fly-flapper, or badge of office similar to what is seen on some ancient Egyptian standards. — from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
All along the beach, under the scanty shelter of the cliff, the wounded lay—some on stretchers, some on blankets, others on the shingle. — from New Zealanders at Gallipoli by Fred Waite
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