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The liver is the lazaret of bile, But very rarely executes its function, For the first passion stays there such a while, That all the rest creep in and form a junction, Life knots of vipers on a dunghill's soil,— Rage, fear, hate, jealousy, revenge, compunction,— So that all mischiefs spring up from this entrail, Like earthquakes from the hidden fire
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
Thus the collective ideal which religion expresses is far from being due to a vague innate power of the individual, but it is rather at the school of collective life that the individual has learned to idealize.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
Her resentment existed in full force.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
This phenomenon cannot be explained by the improvidence of the Artesians, for they are admittedly [Pg 38] remarkable, even in France, for their frugality and their forecasting habit of mind.
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert
He could not tell his battles apart himself, except by their names; and by the time he had told one of then ten times it had grown so that there wasn’t room enough in France for it any more, but was lapping over the edges.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain
The liver is the lazaret of bile, But very rarely executes its function, For the first passion stays there such a while, That all the rest creep in and form a junction, [142]
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
237 Toby, he inferred—and the youth eagerly attested the truth of the inference—had been paid well, being a former helper at the Clark store on Fifth Avenue, but out of work—had been paid to sell the supposedly “real” Eye, its facsimile, for an absurd amount, as he had accepted a movie camera.
— from The Mystery of the Fifteen Sounds by Van Powell
Men have ruled exclusively in France for the last 40 or 50 years, and a woman in England: which realm has been the most peaceful and prosperous?” He sithed twice.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley
The reports just to hand of riots in England and royalist excesses in France fed his hopes of general disorders or revolutions which might lead to his recall.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Some of the domestics ventured to strike at the figure; but, far from giving way, it rather erected itself further from the floor, until Kiartan, who seemed to have a natural predominance over these supernatural prodigies, seizing a huge forge-hammer, struck the seal repeatedly on the head, and compelled it to disappear, forcing it down into the floor, as if he had driven a stake into the earth.
— from Fiends, Ghosts, and Sprites Including an Account of the Origin and Nature of Belief in the Supernatural by John Netten Radcliffe
Well, all the clergy of France, and nearly all the noblesse and the people who belonged to the Roman religion, considered that the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise were, as it were, called of God to preserve the Catholic religion established in France for the last twelve hundred years.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot
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