Though at least one respectable English edition has appeared since Marsden's,[2] the latter has continued to be the standard edition, and maintains not only its reputation but its market value. — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
opening room event eventuality
— N. {ant. 135} timeliness, occasion, opportunity, opening, room; event (eventuality) 151; suitable season, proper season, suitable time, proper time; high time; opportuneness &c. adj.; tempestivity[obs3]. — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
oficial Remedios es esa
Mi sobrino, por una serie de fatalidades, que son otras tantas pruebas de los males pasajeros que a veces permite Dios para nuestro castigo, equivale a un ejército, equivale a la 181 autoridad del Gobierno, equivale al alcalde, equivale al juez; mi sobrino no es mi sobrino; es la nación oficial, Remedios; es esa segunda nación, compuesta de los perdidos que gobiernan en Madrid, y que se ha hecho dueña de la fuerza material; de esa nación aparente, porque la real 5 es la que calla, paga y sufre; de esa nación ficticia que firma al pie de los decretos y pronuncia discursos y hace una farsa de gobierno y una farsa de autoridad — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
of rough eloquence enthusiasm
He selected from the vast mass of detail with an artist’s touch, drawing pictures of life that glowed and burned with light and color, injecting movement so that his listeners surged along with him on the flood of rough eloquence, enthusiasm, and power. — from Martin Eden by Jack London
of Rome ever establish
Nor did the Church of Rome ever establish this Transubstantiation, till the time of Innocent the third; which was not above 500. — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
omnino repudiandum est et
Quam ob rem id quidem non dubium est, quin illa benignitas, quae constet ex opera et industria, et honestior sit et latius pateat et possit prodesse pluribus; non numquam tamen est largiendum, nec hoc benignitatis genus omnino repudiandum est et saepe idoneis hominibus indigentibus de re familiari impertiendum, sed diligenter atque moderate; multi enim patrimonia effuderunt inconsulte largiendo. — from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
of rare Eastern European
If you're a member of the red-hot music-fan tribe, you do lots of everything that has to do with music, from singing in the shower to paying for black-market vinyl bootlegs of rare Eastern European covers of your favorite death-metal band. — from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
of reproachful envious eyes
“Yes, yes, let us go,” said Rostóv hastily, and lowering his eyes and shrinking, he tried to pass unnoticed between the rows of reproachful envious eyes that were fixed upon him, and went out of the room. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
She no longer saw the shining pageant of sunlight on the argent fields of an infinite universe; the sparks and spangles of light in silver cataracts; a world veiled in gold mist, flame-fired of joy, little cressets of rose edging every sky-line. — from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut
We are thus met by the danger of the tendency of technique and other purely representative forms to encroach upon the sphere of direct appreciations; in other words, the tendency to assume that pupils have a foundation of direct realization of situations sufficient for the superstructure of representative experience erected by formulated school studies. — from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
of rhabdomancy easily effected
This deceptio visus, or product of rhabdomancy, easily effected by an adept of the Egyptian mysteries, is designed but to prefigure the reality which awaits those who seek health through the ministry of the disciples of Iamblichus. — from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
own Royal Example exceeded
nstigation , and by the sole Direction of this Work ; because Your Gracious Majesty , has been pleas’d to own it Publickly , for my Encouragement , who, in all that I here pretend to say, deliver only those Precepts which Your Majesty has put into Practice ; as having (like another Cyrus ) by Your own Royal Example , exceeded all your Predecessors in the Plantations You have made, beyond (I dare assert it) — from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn
obstacle removed every exertion
This obstacle removed, every exertion was now made to advance up the lake to the attack of Mobile; but on the 14th, a vessel arrived with the unexpected, but cheering information, that peace had been concluded at Ghent between the two nations, and that it only required the ratification of Mr Maddison, the United States' president. — from Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees
of rural education elsewhere
But if the friends of rural education elsewhere shall be attracted by this method of solving one of the vexed phases of their problem, I hope that they will describe it as "the Hesperia movement." — from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield
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