H2 anchor CHAPTER 32 R elating chiefly to some remarkable Conversation, and some remarkable Proceedings to which it gives rise ‘London at last!’ cried Nicholas, throwing back his greatcoat and rousing Smike from a long nap.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Red Eagle Camp to St. Mary Chalets (4,500), 9 miles.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior
As Tallyrand remarks, "Everybody comes to see everybody at the Exchange Coffee House....
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The idea is that Christ revisits earth, coming to Spain at the period of the Inquisition, and is at once arrested as a heretic by the Grand Inquisitor.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Y tantos años monótonos And so many monotonous years de soledad y convento of convent solitude tenían su pensamiento have kept her thoughts subdued, ceñido a punto tan ruin, imprisoned in such a ruinous way, a tan reducido espacio captive to such a degree,
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla
Before she released him at the now too familiar corner near Berringer's, the girl said, simply and seriously:— "Mr. Garrott—aren't you really ever coming to see me again?"
— from Angela's Business by Henry Sydnor Harrison
A detective of thirty-odd years’ continuous service in the East End, known far and wide by a name given him by a convicted felon in the dock, he was just the man to find me an honest landlady, and make her rest easy concerning the strange comings and goings of which I might be guilty.
— from The People of the Abyss by Jack London
At back a railroad embankment crosses the stage obliquely.
— from Liliom: A Legend in Seven Scenes and a Prologue by Ferenc Molnár
The Earl of Orford speaks in high terms of the literary abilities of the Earl of Bath: have any of my readers ever chanced to see any literary work of the Earl of Bath?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
It was deliberately said later by certain grave and responsible Edinburgh citizens that she had suffered “unexampled provocation.”
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers
Murchison, I found nobody new in the house—yet I returned to this room entirely convinced that somebody had entered while I was in the Park."
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens
In addition to the foregoing, for the purpose of rendering these craft capable of defending themselves against the attack of guard boats, and also of being employed as such, and on river expeditions, &c., they should be built sufficiently strong to enable them to carry a small gun either in the bows or stern; this would apply more especially to those torpedo boats which are part of a ship's stores.
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman
Terry : 221 note 1 , 224 note 2 ; The Rev. Edward, chaplain to Sir T. Roe (1617), 376 .
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell
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