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poverty and gifts and graces of
Of this beauty, to which my poor feeble tongue has failed to do justice, countless princes, not only of that country, but of others, were enamoured, and among them a private gentleman, who was at the court, dared to raise his thoughts to the heaven of so great beauty, trusting to his youth, his gallant bearing, his numerous accomplishments and graces, and his quickness and readiness of wit; for I may tell your highnesses, if I am not wearying you, that he played the guitar so as to make it speak, and he was, besides, a poet and a great dancer, and he could make birdcages so well, that by making them alone he might have gained a livelihood, had he found himself reduced to utter poverty; and gifts and graces of this kind are enough to bring down a mountain, not to say a tender young girl. — from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
police and gave a glimpse of
Who would think it probable that Poiret, a retired clerk, doubtless possessed of some notions of civic virtue, though there might be nothing else in his head—who would think it likely that such a man would continue to lend an ear to this supposed independent gentleman of the Rue de Buffon, when the latter dropped the mask of a decent citizen by that word “police,” and gave a glimpse of the features of a detective from the Rue de Jerusalem? — from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
part and generally a good one
Phoebe (being of that quickness and activity of temperament that she seldom long refrained from taking a part, and generally a good one, in what was going forward) now felt herself moved to address the stranger. — from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
passed a gleam and glow of
Across the iridescent cluster passed a gleam and glow of peacock and iris, opal and mother-of-pearl; while from its heart ascended a deep murmur, telling of tremendous and accumulated energy suddenly launched into this peaceful glade of apple-blossom and ambient green. — from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
Marion quite agreed with her mother; and Wilfrid was also in favour of the Flying Scud , as he thought it would be pleasant to break the passage by putting into the great South American ports and getting a glimpse of their inhabitants. — from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
plunged and gain a glimpse of
The following arguments, however, may perhaps awaken some few of these who are less lethargic than the rest, from the sleep of sense, and enable them to elevate their mental eye from the dark mire in which they are plunged, and gain a glimpse of this most weighty truth, that there is another world, of which this is nothing more than a most obscure resemblance, and another life, of which this is but the flying mockery. — from Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato by Thomas Taylor
position and got a glimpse of
I raised up slowly on my hands from my prone position, and got a glimpse of the object under discussion. — from The Secret Martians by Jack Sharkey
posed as gods and goddesses or
In their eager search for novelty they improvised fetes that rivaled in magnificence the Arabian Nights; they posed as gods and goddesses, or, affecting simplicity, assumed rustic and pastoral characters, even to their small economies and romantic platitudes. — from The Women of the French Salons by Amelia Gere Mason
But the new emperors had scarcely given promise of a wise administration, before they in turn were assassinated by the prætorians, and Gordian, a grandson of the first of that name, was elevated to the imperial dignity. — from Ancient States and Empires
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