If however the station of the seasons had been changed, and where now in the heaven are placed the North Wind and winter, there was the station of the South Wind and of the midday, and where now is placed the South Wind, there was the North, if this had been so, the Sun being driven from the midst of the heaven by the winter and the North Wind would go to the upper parts of Europe, just as now he comes to the upper parts of Libya, and passing in his course throughout the whole of Europe I suppose that he would do to the Ister that which he now works upon the Nile. — from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus
ought to have been
For the truth of the matter is they were knights chosen by the kings of France, and called ‘Peers’ because they were all equal in worth, rank and prowess (at least if they were not they ought to have been), and it was a kind of religious order like those of Santiago and Calatrava in the present day, in which it is assumed that those who take it are valiant knights of distinction and good birth; and just as we say now a Knight of St. John, or of Alcantara, they used to say then a Knight of the Twelve Peers, because twelve equals were chosen for that military order. — from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
of the house but
He is also valet not only for the gentleman of the house but for any gentleman guests as well. — from Etiquette by Emily Post
of the hedge by
After the country people had looked upon them very earnestly a great while, and, by all that they could see, could not but suppose that they were a great many in company, they began to be uneasy, not for their going away, but for staying where they were; and above all, perceiving they had horses and arms, for they had seen one horse and one gun at the tent, and they had seen others of them walk about the field on the inside of the hedge by the side of the lane with their muskets, as they took them to be, shouldered; I say, upon such a sight as this, you may be assured they were alarmed and terribly frighted, and it seems they went to a justice of the peace to know what they should do. — from A Journal of the Plague Year
Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe
of the headland being
This, they told me, was a worse harbor than Santa Barbara, for south-easters; the bearing of the headland being a point and a half more to windward, and it being so shallow that the sea broke often as far out as where we lay at anchor. — from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
of the heavenly bodies
Thirdly, his optimism leads him to insist (unlike the Spanish king who thought that he could have improved on the mechanism of the heavens) on the perfect or circular movement of the heavenly bodies. — from Laws by Plato
of their having been
In Spain and in Portugal, the Jews, in consequence of their having been on several occasions useful to the kings of those two countries, were allowed to carry on their trade, and to engage in money speculations, outside their own quarters; a few were elevated to positions of responsibility, and some were even tolerated at court. — from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
opposition to her but
For when your poor sister had a mind to drop into you, it were not so much,” said Joe, in his favorite argumentative way, “that she dropped into me too, if I put myself in opposition to her, but that she dropped into you always heavier for it. — from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
of them have become
our Horses maney of them have become So wild that we Cannot take them without the assistance of the indians who are extreemly dextrous in throwing a Rope and takeing them with a noose about the neck; as we frequently want the use of our horses when we cannot get the use of the indians to take them, we had a Strong pound formed to day in order to take them at pleasure- H2 anchor — from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
of their holy bishop
A dearth ensuing, the Christians, to the number of two hundred and eighty, women and children included, after a day's fast, and watching the following night in prayer, by the order of their holy bishop, went out in procession to St. Timothy's church, in which lay the relics of the holy martyr St. Meuris, and of the confessor St. Thees, singing hymns of divine praise. — from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler
of the Hudson Bay
This was a northern post of the Hudson Bay Company, built in the form of a hollow square with a wide frontage open to the river. — from A Mating in the Wilds by Ottwell Binns
But it is more probable that Thompson, as obtains in ninety-nine out of a hundred of these disappointments, while carrying his head among [310] the stars, stumbled over the stone at his feet, which he would have seen if he had had his head where it ought to have been. — from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton
Library, the Pepysian, 294 ; of Richelieu, 300 ; of Izaak Walton, 319 ; of John Quincy Adams, 327 ; of Thomas H. Benton, 337 ; of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 362 ; of Edwin Forrest, 366 ; of Thomas Jefferson, 399 ; of James Madison, 406 ; of Alexander Stephens, 431 ; of Martin Van Buren, 434 . — from Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills by Virgil M. (Virgil McClure) Harris
of that had been
The establishment of the post office is agreed to be for no other purpose than the conveyance of information into every part of the Union; and a greater portion of that had been conveyed into many of the interior parts of the country, by the newspapers sent by the members of the House, than could be conveyed by other means, excepting on the main roads on which stages go. — from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress
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