O supreme Sun, and ye also, ye other celestial beings, that before I depart from this life I behold in my kingdom, and in this my palace, Publius Cornelius Scipio, by whose mere name I seem to be reanimated; so completely and indelibly is the recollection of that best and most invincible of men, Africanus, imprinted in my mind.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pretty, popular cause such manhood earns, Could call him the main cause of all their crime; Yea, were he not crowned King, coward, and fool.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
ANT: Verticality, erectness, stability, permanence, persistence, conservation, sequence, fixity, state, order.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Io non posso ritrar di tutti a pieno, pero` che si` mi caccia il lungo tema, che molte volte al fatto il dir vien meno.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
But the accusative sometimes has -n : as, poēsin , poetry , Charybdin ; similarly Capyn ; and a vocative occurs: as, Charybdi .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
A pale, pale corpse she floated by, Dead cold, between the houses high, Dead into towered Camelot.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron
All who have spent a winter in Rome remember the frugal entertainment offered, so that an artist with no plentiful purse could still ask a prince to visit him.
— from Manners and Social Usages by M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) Sherwood
The Movement in Europe—Present Plans of the Reds—Stringent Measures Adopted by Various European Governments—Bebel and Liebknecht—A London Celebration—Whitechapel Outcasts—“Blood, Blood, Blood!”—Verestchagin’s Views—The Bulwarks of Society—The Condition of Anarchy in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and other American Cities—A New Era of Revolutionary Activity—A Fight to the Death—Are we Prepared?
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack
CHAPTER IX—FOOD—ITS FUNCTION, PURCHASE, PREPARATION, COOKING, SERVING GOOD COOKING FOOD CHARTS DIGESTION CHARTS TABLE OF WEIGHTS
— from Camping For Boys by H. W. (Henry William) Gibson
At Abergwili he extended his affections to birds, and kept peacocks, pheasants, canaries, swans, and tame geese, which he regularly fed every morning, no matter what 138 the weather might be.
— from Old Friends at Cambridge and Elsewhere by John Willis Clark
102 Freethought had achieved something when a Roman Cardinal, a predestinate Pope, could so write to an avowed freethinker.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
"What particular profession can she fill by dashing over the country in that style?" continued the parent with a smile.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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— from Notes and Queries, Number 173, February 19, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
We have seen that it consists of a political party so far dominant that the Trades Unions and all that is articulate in the country may be considered as part of a machinery of propaganda, for getting those things done which that political party considers should be done.
— from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
And in no country does the agricultural population exercise such a controlling political power, contribute so much to the wealth, or tend so strongly to give an impress to the character of a nation as in the United States.
— from Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers by Benj. N. (Benjamin Nicholas) Martin
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