However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot. — from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
Amidst a mass of other points upon which directions are given, we notice the following: the necessity of keeping secret the matters in course of deliberation; the prohibition to councillors from receiving, either directly or indirectly, anything in the shape of a douceur from the parties in any suit; and the forbidding all attorneys from receiving any bribe or claiming more than the actual expenses of a journey and other just charges. — from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
C H A P. LI T HE world is ashamed of being virtuous——my uncle Toby knew little of the world; and therefore when he felt he was in love with widow Wadman, he had no conception that the thing was any more to be made a mystery of, than if Mrs. Wadman had given him a cut with a gap’d knife across his finger: Had it been otherwise——yet as he ever look’d upon Trim as a humble friend; and saw fresh reasons every day of his life, to treat him as such——it would have made no variation in the manner in which he informed him of the affair. — from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Rotterdam either desire or
For, to speak the truth, until of late years, that the heads of all the people have been set agog with politics, no better business than my own could an honest citizen of Rotterdam either desire or deserve. — from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
recalled every detail of
She vividly pictured herself as Prince Andrew’s wife, and the scenes of happiness with him she had so often repeated in her imagination, and at the same time, aglow with excitement, recalled every detail of yesterday’s interview with Anatole. — from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
repeatedly expressed desire of
In two radiograms, bearing the systematic character of the customary proclamations and intended for the soldiers and the Soviet, he stated that the High Command was ready to meet half-way “the repeatedly expressed desire of the Russian Soldiers’ Delegates to put an end to bloodshed”; that “military operations between us (the Central Powers) and Russia could be put an end to without Russia breaking with her Allies ”; that “if Russia wants to know the particulars of our conditions, let her give up her demand for their publication....” — from The Russian Turmoil; Memoirs: Military, Social, and Political by Anton Ivanovich Denikin
rob even death of
They have testified as the result of their countless experiences that it can stand the wear and tear of life; that it can not only fortify but console; and that it can rob even death of its sting and the grave of its victory by a sure and certain hope of the crown of righteousness, which the righteous Judge prepares for all those who love, and have long loved, His appearing. — from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer
responsibility either directly or
In addition to the problem of educating eight million negroes in our Southern States and ingrafting them into American citizenship, we now have the additional responsibility, either directly or indirectly, of educating and elevating about eight hundred thousand others of African descent in Cuba and Porto Rico, to say nothing of the white people of these islands, many of whom are in a condition about as deplorable as that of the negroes. — from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
resolutions embodying Declarations of
At the outrage of the Stamp Act, a Congress of delegates from nine Colonies, held at New York in October, 1765, put forth a series of resolutions embodying " Declarations of our humble opinion respecting the most essential rights and liberties of the Colonists." — from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
When the spectrum is formed by the sun’s rays, either direct or indirect—as from the sky, clouds, rainbow, moon, or planets—the black bands are always found to be in the same parts of the spectrum, and under all circumstances to maintain the same relative positions. — from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville
races every day of
The latter had been a great traveller in his younger days, and was brimful of Eastern experience; full too, of reminiscence, looking back to perilous years passed among fierce, fanatical races, every day of which represented just so many hours of carrying his life in his hand. — from The Ruby Sword: A Romance of Baluchistan by Bertram Mitford
reveals every detail of
In illustration of the last part, I would mention the horror with which many Japanese ladies regard that style of foreign dress which, while covering the figure completely, reveals every detail of the form above the waist, and, as we say, shows off to advantage a pretty figure. — from Japanese Girls and Women
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