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Malignity and perversity constitute the spirit of evil, which permeates heaven and earth, and malicious persons are affected by its influence.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao
Jewelry of Earliest Moro Converts From a photograph. Hill and Excavations where the Jewelry was Found Facsimile of a sketch by Rizal. List of Ethnographical Material Facsimile.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig
Does this passageway have an exit?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
" "I hope he is not one of your great heroes," said Rosamond, half playfully, half anxiously, "else I shall have you getting up in the night to go to St. Peter's churchyard.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot
"I was poor," he almost echoed.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Now, upon the king's kind reception of her, he both showed a great desire to please her, and easily comprehending in his mind the meaning of the curious questions she propounded to him, he resolved them sooner than any body could have expected.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
Hy, n. aptitude to proceed: a. apt; bold; audacious Hyadlais, a. apt to resound Hyall, a. possible, effectible Hyalledd, n. possibility Hyar, a. apt to resound; vocal Hyawdledd, n. eloquence Hyawdl, a. eloquent, fluent Hyb, n. a getting forward; a recovery Hyball, a. fallible, defectible Hyballedd, n. fallibility Hybar, a. apt to provide Hybarch, a. reverend, revered Hybarchedd, n. venerableness Hybarth, a. divisible Hybarthedd, n. divisibility Hybawl, a recovering; saving Hybechrwydd, n. aptness to sin Hybell, a. far ranging; distant Hybiad, n. a recovering Hyblaid, n. apt to take a part Hybleth, a. apt to weave Hyblyg, a. easily doubted; also flexible Hyblygedd, n. flexibility Hyboen, a. susceptible of pain Hyboeth, a. easily heated Hyborth, a. easily supported Hybrawf, a. demonstrable Hybryn, a. easily bought Hybu, v. to get foremost; to recover Hybwyll, a. discreet, rational Hybwylledd, n. deliberation Hybwys, a. aptly pressing Hybwysedd, n. ponderousness Hychan, n. a little sow Hychgryg, n. quinsy Hychiad, n. a thrusting Hychian, v. to grunt Hychiaw, v. to push, to thrust Hychig, n. little or young sow Hychwant, a. aptly lusting Hychwardd, a. aptly laughing Hychwil, a. apt to pry about Hychwyth, a. apt to blow Hyd, n. length; continuity; while: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
Greek text Epikourou palin ho Asklêpiadês echomenos aei tês akolouthias, hês ekeinos ou pany ti phainetai phrontizôn.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen
To Eleanor it might have been black with winter frost, she never noticed outward thing till she reached The End of Time; and there, in the little farm-yard, she was brought to a sense of her present hour and errand by seeing Edward.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search, they did not desist until the coming on of night rendered its further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with reluctance.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens
A daily newspaper called Among the Clouds is published here, and every person who gets his name on the register in time can see it in print before the train goes.
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner
"Most men, just out of West Point, have an eye to killing redskins, not coddling 'em."
— from The Plow-Woman by Eleanor Gates
Nations do not dare to relinquish their fear of one another, and we see something of this voluntary cherishing of fear and enmity in the present hesitation about entering into leagues on the part of many nations.
— from The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G. E. (George Everett) Partridge
These horses were two in number, one for M. de Vallon, and one for his equerry; for Porthos had an equerry since Mouston was only able to use a carriage as a means of locomotion.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas
When the people had, apparently, expressed their sorrow, Ping Wang suddenly addressed the crowd in a loud voice.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
Day by day Wade was growing weaker, and it was Mrs. Wade who helped put in the crop, borrowing a plow, harrow, and extra team, and repaying the loan with the use of their own horses and wagon.
— from Dust by Marcet Haldeman-Julius
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