Mina is fast asleep, and looks a little too pale; her eyes look as though she had been crying. — from Dracula by Bram Stoker
physical have ever lost
They do not understand the great vitality and durability of institutions which place right on the side of might; how intensely they are clung to; how the good as well as the bad propensities and sentiments of those who have power in their hands, become identified with retaining it; how slowly these bad institutions give way, one at a time, the weakest first, beginning with those which are least interwoven with the daily habits of life; and how very rarely those who have obtained legal power because they first had physical, have ever lost their hold of it until the physical power had passed over to the other side. — from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
podría hallar en las
(p94) Además, ¿qué apoyo (a juicio de Manos-gordas ) podría hallar en las leyes ni en las autoridades de España un extranjero, un mahometano, un semi-salvaje, para adquirir la Torre de Zoraya , para hacer excavaciones en ella, para entrar en posesión 05 del tesoro o para no perderlo inmediatamente con la vida? —¡No hay remedio!—díjose por remate de largas reflexiones.—¡Tengo que confiarme al renegado ben-Munuza! — from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
When he jumped up he did not run at once, but pricked his ears listening to the shouting and trampling that resounded from all sides at once. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
People have even lost their lives in the fray; and I think the government should interfere, and put down these riotous meetings. — from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
pocket his extra little
In the carriage Jude took from his pocket his extra little wedding-present, which turned out to be two or three yards of white tulle, which he threw over her bonnet and all, as a veil. — from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Peter Hunter Esquire Lieutenant
Whereas great prejudice hath arisen to the inhabitants of the Town and Township of York, and of other adjoining Townships, from no place or day having been set apart or appointed for exposing publicly for sale, cattle, sheep, poultry, and other provisions, goods, and merchandize, brought by merchants, farmers, and others, for the necessary supply of the said Town of York; and, whereas, great benefit and advantage might be derived to the said inhabitants and others, by establishing a weekly market within that Town, at a place and on a day certain for the purpose aforesaid; "Know all men, That I, Peter Hunter, Esquire, Lieutenant-Governor of the said Province, taking the premises into consideration, and willing to promote the interest, and advantage, and accommodation of the inhabitants of the Town and Township aforesaid, and of others, His Majesty's subjects, within the said Province, by and with the advice of the Executive Council thereof, have ordained, erected, established and appointed, and do hereby ordain, erect, establish and appoint, a Public Open Market, to be held on Saturday in each and every week during the year, within the said Town of York:—(The first market to be held therein on Saturday, the 5th day of November next after the date of these presents), on a certain piece or plot of land within that Town, consisting of five acres and a half, commencing at the south-east angle of the said plot, at the corner of Market Street and New Street, then north sixteen degrees, west five chains seventeen links, more or less, to King Street; then along King Street south seventy-four degrees west nine chains fifty-one links, more or less, to Church Street; then south sixteen degrees east six chains thirty-four links, more or less, to Market Street; then along Market Street north seventy-four degrees east two chains; then north sixty-four degrees, east along Market Street seven chains sixty links, more or less, to the place of beginning, for the purpose of exposing for sale cattle, sheep, poultry, and other provisions, goods and merchandize, as aforesaid. — from Toronto of Old
Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
In his turn he wished to find happy words and promise that he also would ever be hers, ever love her as he had loved her since childhood, like the dear creature she was, whose one kiss, long, long ago, had sufficed to perfume his entire life. — from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola
In the morning at seven o'clock in advance of all the clerks, and before the office porter had even lighted his fire, he was already at his desk, opening his correspondence, and answering the most pressing letters. — from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola
paralysis his eyes leaping
For an instant Arthur stood like one stricken with paralysis, his eyes leaping from Jerrie's face to Gretchen's, and from Gretchen's back to Jerrie's, and then, with a motion of his hands as if fanning the air furiously, he gasped: "Twenty years ago—twenty years ago? — from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes
person hight Evelina Louisa
This situation was at that moment occupied by a young person hight Evelina Louisa Barmond, sister to Billy Barmond of the Hundred and second, a veteran fellow-soldier and comrade who had jumped five feet six at the Sandhurst sports a year before. — from From One Generation to Another by Henry Seton Merriman
persons had entered Lucy
"Tell it to me with your head lying on my shoulder, your heart to mine——." He stopped suddenly, and Leslie following his eyes, would have broken from him, for two persons had entered, Lucy and Ralph Duncombe, but Yorke still held her. — from Leslie's Loyalty by Charles Garvice
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