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perforce look up the

Full many a pleasant place I know, And treasures, buried long ago: I must, perforce, look up the matter.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

pavement looking up the

Then, he would stand shivering on the edge of the pavement, looking up the street and looking down, while scores of people jostled him, and crossed, and went on.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

pass leading up to

"It appears from the preceding note that the real name by which James was actually distinguished in his private excursions was the Goodman of Ballenguich; derived from a steep pass leading up to the Castle of Stirling, so called.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

painful longing upon this

We look with deep and painful longing upon this state, beside which the misery and wretchedness of our own is brought out clearly by the contrast.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

people like us threats

Between people like us threats are out of place, everything should be amicably arranged.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Perses lay up these

(ll. 274-285) But you, Perses, lay up these things within your heart and listen now to right, ceasing altogether to think of violence.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

public life undermine the

The hopes or dreams of the generation just coming into the field of public life undermine the energy of a dominant creed.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

pause let us talk

‘Now,’ resumed he, after a momentary pause, ‘let us talk about something else.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

pagkáun láwas ug tulu

Miurdir kug pagkáun láwas ug tulu ka táwu, I’ll order food enough for three persons.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

parallel lines upon the

As performed in connection with the ballplay it is a painful operation, being inflicted upon the naked skin with a seven-toothed comb of turkey bone, the scratches being drawn in parallel lines upon the breast, back, arms and legs, until the sufferer is bleeding from head to foot.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

proclaim light unto the

22, ".... saying nothing except those things which the prophets and Moses said were to come to pass, (23) whether the Christ should suffer [———], whether, the first out of the resurrection from the dead, he is about to proclaim light unto the people and to the Gentiles."(2)
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

Paoluccio looked up too

"Has he eaten?" inquired Nanna, and Paoluccio looked up, too.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Promised Land under that

There lies the Heroic Promised Land; under that Heaven's-light, my brethren, [Pg 46] bloom the Happy Isles,—there,
— from Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle

pass Looks upward to

HE little flower set in the grass, Where it doth lowly lie, As one by one the bright hours pass, Looks upward to the sky.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

paths leading up to

I remember looking with wondering delight on the velvety upturned faces of the variously tinted pansies that bordered the paths leading up to the door of a certain farmhouse where we stayed much in the summer-time, when I was just four years old,—wonder because our mother told us that God’s finger painted them and I used to think that He did it whilst we slept.
— from Birds useful and birds harmful by Ottó Herman

panorama lights up the

Now it flashes across the city, the dull panorama lights up, the tall, gaunt steeples gleam out, and the surface of the Bay flashes out in a phosphoric blaze.
— from Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams

petroleum lamps under the

It was with a despairing heart and the certitude of final disaster that Amedee, needing a little sleep after the fatigue, wandered through Paris's obscure streets, barely lighted here and there by petroleum lamps, under the dark, opaque winter sky, where the echoes of the distant cannonading unceasingly growled like the barking of monstrous dogs.
— from A Romance of Youth — Volume 4 by François Coppée

pensive look unusual to

When the country learnt that to Lord Lothersdale had been entrusted the task of reforming the Army it heaved a sigh of content, for it knew that the work was now as good as done; and when the news reached the Continent the officers of the Great General Staff of the German Army were noticed to wear a sad and pensive look unusual to them.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

pavements looking upon the

There was not a sound, no living thing near, to break the stillness; and lightly, and with a feeling of awe, I trod the marble pavements, looking upon the calm, pale, motionless forms around me, almost expecting they would open their marble lips and speak to me—or, at least, nod—like the statue in Don Giovanni: and still, as the evening shadows fell deeper and deeper, they waxed, methought, sadder, paler, and more life-like.
— from Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, Vol. 2 (of 3) With Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

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