Some of them would have denied that these great centers of industrial democracy either in the Old World or in the New always stand for progress.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
But in many of its details, especially in reference to the more calamitous parts, such as the fatalities among the seamen, the consequent prolonged beating about, the past sufferings from obstinate calms, and still continued [pg 164] suffering from thirst; in all these points, as well as others, Don Benito's story had corroborated not only the wailing ejaculations of the indiscriminate multitude, white and black, but likewise—what seemed impossible to be counterfeit—by the very expression and play of every human feature, which Captain Delano saw.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
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— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
Bishop of Inver Daeile (Ennereilly) in Wicklow.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
Trip in morals or in doctrine (especially in doctrine), without due repentance or retractation, or fail to get properly baptized before you die, and a plébiscite of the Christians of Europe, if they were true to their creeds, would affirm your everlasting damnation by an immense majority.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley
At these parting festivities Borough pleasantly pictures the fine veteran seaman, “for very joy that he had to see the towardness of our intended discovery,” entering into the dance himself “amongst the rest of the young and lusty company.”
— from The Boy's Hakluyt: English Voyages of Adventure and Discovery by Edwin M. (Edwin Monroe) Bacon
" "But, my dear Charles, you forget also any little merit of my own is doubly enhanced in your eyes, by the sincerity of the friendship subsisting between us; your sister may think very differently.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson
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— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
They are not all parasites, as has been thought, since some are found in the sea, and others in damp earth, in putrid matter, and even on plants and their seeds.
— from Animal Parasites and Messmates by P. J. van (Pierre Joseph) Beneden
One day when hunger was gnawing me, and even the satanic consolation of the public-house was shut against me for want of a sixpence to pay for a glass of its diabolical elixir, I fell in with a man of the trade; he offered me work and bread.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various
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