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of this crime Sigi

In consequence of this crime, Sigi was driven from his own land and declared an outlaw.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

of that curious statue

He read of the swallows that fly in and out of the little cafe at Smyrna where the Hadjis sit counting their amber beads and the turbaned merchants smoke their long tasselled pipes and talk gravely to each other; he read of the Obelisk in the Place de la Concorde that weeps tears of granite in its lonely sunless exile and longs to be back by the hot, lotus-covered Nile, where there are Sphinxes, and rose-red ibises, and white vultures with gilded claws, and crocodiles with small beryl eyes that crawl over the green steaming mud; he began to brood over those verses which, drawing music from kiss-stained marble, tell of that curious statue that Gautier compares to a contralto voice, the " monstre charmant " that couches in the porphyry-room of the Louvre.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

of the child she

If, at the moment when she felt the first tremblings of the child, she was looking at a kangaroo, it is believed that the ratapa of the kangaroo has entered her body and fertilized her.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

of the crew set

Some instants after, we saw a dozen of the crew set foot on the bank of ice, and among them Ned Land, easily known by his stature.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

of these costly stones

The triumph of Christ was adorned with the last spoils of Paganism, but the greater part of these costly stones was extracted from the quarries of Asia Minor, the isles and continent of Greece, Egypt, Africa, and Gaul.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

of the cave sorrowful

1 And on the morning of the forty-third day, they came out of the cave, sorrowful and crying.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

of the country St

In the beginning there were only two kinds of roasted coffee known to the trade in this section of the country (St. Louis) and of course one of these brands was "Rio"—the other; "Java".
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

of the Curtain suspended

Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed, and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat down to contemplate the mechanical drama of the Universe which he was part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime description of the Roman Theater) discolored with the lurid reflex of the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

On the contrary she

On the contrary, she just stands by the window, swallowing all the peaches and fragments of pudding that the travellers leave on their plates.
— from Sinners and Saints A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson

on the crest showing

Still farther, in a vacant lot in Rue Clovis, which has cut deep through the hill, a broken end of the wall hangs high above us on the crest, showing both solid faces and the rubble between.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 1 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

of the Carthaginian state

In Africa and Sardinia the Carthaginian gold and silver money may have remained in circulation even after the fall of the Carthaginian state; but no coinage of precious metals took place there after either the Carthaginian or the Roman standard, and certainly very soon after the Romans took possession, the -denarius- introduced from Italy acquired the predominance in the transactions of the two countries.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

out the clock struck

" Ellie went softly out; the clock struck nine—ten—eleven.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

of Thy covenant speaking

"And as for Thee also, by the blood of Thy covenant," speaking of Christ, "I have sent forth Thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water," (Zech 9:9-11).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

of these curious sacred

Mr. Francis Parry has advanced a view concerning the meaning of these curious “sacred stones.”
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

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