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race Aryan blood Aryan

The later ethnological misuse of Aryan to signify not spiritual, but physical, characteristics, led the great Orientalist, Max Muller, to say quaintly: "To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

represent a beaver and

In my mind there is very little doubt that the sea-dog is really the early heraldic attempt to represent a beaver, and I am confirmed in that opinion by the arms of the city of Oxford.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

repose are beast and

No leaf on any tree is stirred: Hushed in repose are beast and bird: Where'er you turn, on every side, Dense shades of night the landscape hide, The light of eve is fled: the skies, Thick-studded with their host of eyes, Seem a star-forest overhead, Where signs and constellations spread.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

roaring and bellowing and

But little time will be left me to ponder upon my destiny—the circles rapidly grow small—we are plunging madly within the grasp of the whirlpool—and amid a roaring, and bellowing, and thundering of ocean and of tempest, the ship is quivering, oh God!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

rent and Bellona attends

Howling Anubis, and gods monstrous and multitudinous, level their arms against Neptune and Venus and against Minerva; Mars rages amid the havoc, graven in iron, and the Fatal Sisters hang aloft, and Discord strides rejoicing with garment rent, and Bellona attends her with blood-stained scourge.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

read a broadside alleging

He was sorry when his friend, Seneca Doane, defended arrested strikers, and he thought of going to Doane and explaining about these agitators, but when he read a broadside alleging that even on their former wages the telephone girls had been hungry, he was troubled.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

read all but Approves

His Taste of Books is a little too just for the Age he lives in; he has read all, but Approves of very few.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

run away but always

This is Hayton's account of the Parthian tactics of the Tartars: "They will run away, but always keeping their companies together; and it is very dangerous to give them chase, for as they flee they shoot back over their heads, and do great execution among their pursuers.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

roaring and bellowing as

Thus he passed along, turning his head to and fro, yawning and gaping wide, with ougly demonstration of long teeth and glaring eyes; and to bidde us farewell, coming fight against the Hinde, he sent forth a horrible voice, roaring and bellowing as doth a lion, which spectacle we all beheld so far as we were able to discern the same, as men prone to wonder at every strange thing.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

raise a bodyguard and

For the next few days Duallach went hither and thither trying to raise a bodyguard, and every man he met had some story of Costello, how he killed the wrestler when but a boy by so straining at the belt that went about them both that he broke the big wrestler's back; how when somewhat older he dragged fierce horses through a ford in the Unchion for a wager; how when he came to manhood he broke the steel horseshoe in Mayo; how he drove many men before him through Rushy Meadow at Drum-an-air because of a malevolent song they had about his poverty; and of many another deed of his strength and pride; but he could find none who would trust themselves with any so passionate and poor in a quarrel with careful and wealthy persons like Dermott of the Sheep and Namara of the Lake.
— from The Secret Rose by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

ring and by a

In addition to this, an altar was raised and dedicated to St. Joseph; his statue was placed at its side; his birthday was kept with great pomp; a society of seculars, called his Fraternity, was instituted to [Pg 508] serve in the chapel jointly with the clergy of St. Lawrence; and on the joint festival of Mary and her spouse the splendid solemnity was heightened by the solemn exhibition of the ring, and by a picture of their miraculous nuptials being uncovered to the eager gaze of the adoring multitude.’
— from Finger-Ring Lore: Historical, Legendary, Anecdotal by Jones, William, F.S.A.

room and bread and

We had a letter from the consul in Mogador setting forth that we are friends of his, but not descending to particulars, so that we were ushered into an airy upper room, and bread and butter, in a tolerably lordly dish, was set before us.
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham

runs a banker All

p. 100: "Till the river runs a banker, All stained with yellow mud."
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris

reads at breakfast adds

Time and over again, the newspaper one reads at breakfast adds details to the night’s remembered dreams.
— from Psychoanalysis, Sleep and Dreams by André Tridon

reproach accompanied by an

“I told you that you would not do it by ten o’clock,” said this gentleman, addressing the reproach, accompanied by an angry look, to the cab-man.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Ridge and by a

Among these at length came a party of engineers sent out by the Government to consider the question of diverting the waters of the St. Mary’s River from their natural course to join the Saskatchewan, into a new channel southward across Milk River Ridge, and by a great irrigation project thus to make fertile a vast area of arid country in Northern Montana.
— from Jack the Young Explorer: A Boy's Experiances in the Unknown Northwest by George Bird Grinnell

Robert Aitkin Bertram and

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32), by Robert Aitkin Bertram and Alfred Robert Tucker *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PREACHER'S COMPLETE HOMILETIC
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

remains at Brighton after

“I wish to know whether Mr. Noel Vanstone remains at Brighton after the funeral.”
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

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