H2 anchor 1780 H2 anchor Ronalds Of The Bennals, The In Tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men, And proper young lasses and a', man; But ken ye the Ronalds that live in the Bennals, They carry the gree frae them a', man.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Each gallant thane, Prince, peer, and noble, follow in your train;— They praise your loveliness, and in your ear
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

And lest some should persuade ye, Lords and Commons, that these arguments of learned men's discouragement at this your Order are mere flourishes, and not real, I could recount what I have seen and heard in other countries, where this kind of inquisition tyrannizes; when I have sat among their learned men, for that honour I had, and been counted happy to be born in such a place of philosophic freedom, as they supposed England was, while themselves did nothing but bemoan the servile condition into which learning amongst them was brought; that this was it which had damped the glory of Italian wits; that nothing had been there written now these many years but flattery and fustian.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

No, he stuck to it; and it was only when I produced your letters and translated the passages relating to father— MRS.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

Here is shelter for you; here I will protect you like a hunted dove that I have saved from a hawk's claws; I will bring peace to your poor beating heart.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

But, my dear Frankenstein,” continued he, stopping short and gazing full in my face, “I did not before remark how very ill you appear; so thin and pale; you look as if you had been watching for several nights.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You were paid Saturday night, so nothing prevents your leaving at once.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Dear Sir :—On behalf of your association, accept the expression of my interest as I peruse your letter and enclosures.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, June 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

What you are going to be asked to do will place your lives at risk.
— from The Universe — or Nothing by Meyer Moldeven

"Nay, I know not whether the rest of the rhymes may please you, lord abbot," replied Father Eastgate.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Positively you look as ferocious as the blackamoor in the tragedy,—the fellow who smothered his wife because she misplaced a handkerchief, you remember."
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

They also boast of Sir William Craven, ancestor of the Earls of Craven, who came up to London a poor Yorkshire lad, and was bound apprentice to a draper.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Peru earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding, landslides, mild volcanic activity Philippines astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis Pitcairn Islands typhoons (especially November to March) Poland flooding Portugal Azores subject to severe earthquakes Puerto Rico periodic droughts; hurricanes Qatar haze, dust storms, sandstorms common Reunion periodic, devastating cyclones (December to April); Piton de la Fournaise on the southeastern coast is an active volcano Romania earthquakes, most severe in south and southwest; geologic structure and climate promote landslides Russia permafrost over much of Siberia is a major impediment to development; volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands; volcanoes and earthquakes on the Kamchatka Peninsula; spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout Siberia and parts of European Russia Rwanda periodic droughts; the volcanic Virunga mountains are in the northwest along the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

“Though you make me out a villain I am not released from the obligation of paying you like a lord.
— from The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac

The popular young lady authoress, "Stella Edwards," whose portrait in a decollete gown had been so often flaunted in the eyes of "her" public, was a myth.
— from The Fiction Factory Being the experience of a writer who, for twenty-two years, has kept a story-mill grinding successfully by William Wallace Cook

He said: May it please your lordships and gentlemen of the jury, the case for the prosecution and the case for the defence are now before you, and it now becomes my duty to address to you such observations upon the whole of the evidence as suggest themselves to my mind.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous