Suddenly a loud voice issued from one of the cells which had remained closed, and cried out, "Hey! there!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
Hate rests that is solid and sparse and all in a shape and largely very largely.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein
Snob , a low, vulgar, or affected person.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten
External and posterior to the scalenus, a large vessel, the post scapular, G, Plate 6, R, Plate 5, arises.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise
An increased tendency to shorten a long vowel before another vowel can be traced in the history of the language: thus, classical fuī , I was , for Plautus’s fūī ( 750 ); clueō , I am called , for Plautus’s clūeō ; perfect pluit , it rained , for Varro’s plūit (cf.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
SÆGR, a large vessel of any kind.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson
71 Note 65 ( return ) [ Sozomen alone (l. vii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Com'a lui piacque, il collo li avvinghiai; ed el prese di tempo e loco poste, e quando l'ali fuoro aperte assai, appiglio` se' a le vellute coste; di vello in vello giu` discese poscia tra 'l folto pelo e le gelate croste.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
“Well, cheer up!” said a loud voice from the staircase, which Porthos had just mounted.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
In the imperial age, ss after long vowels and diphthongs was regularly changed to s : as, clausī , I closed ; ūsus , used ( 166, 2 ); but always ēsse , to eat ( 769 ); ll changed to l after diphthongs: as, caelum , chisel ( 166, 6 ); also when preceded by ī and followed by i : as, vīlla , country-place , but vīlicus (adject.); mille , thousand , but mīlia ( 642 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
The canvases of Monet, Renoir and Pissarro have, in consequence of this research, an absolutely original aspect: their shadows are striped with blue, rose-madder and green; nothing is opaque or sooty; a light vibration strikes the eye.
— from The French Impressionists (1860-1900) by Camille Mauclair
Let us take a sane and logical view of this subject.
— from What Every Girl Should Know by Margaret Sanger
Footnote 577: (return) U.S. Statutes at Large , vol.
— from The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Annie Heloise Abel
The sun occasionally shone through these showers, and illuminated the magnificent ravines of the mountains, whose gigantic pines were, some laden with snow, some wreathed round by the lines of scattered and lingering vapour; others darting their spires into the sunny sky, brilliantly clear and azure.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.
Statutes at Large, Vol.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
"Well, my dear," said Mrs. Graham, putting down her knitting, taking off her spectacles, and looking very thoughtful, "I do not know whether I can tell you just what I mean, so that you can understand me, but I will try.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh
"I thought you were on leave," said a Lhari voice, deeper and slower than most.
— from The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
As soon as he had done this, Man found himself standing on the shore near his home, and was very much astonished to see a large village where he had left only a few huts.
— from A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss
I've been on foot all day, and after such a long voyage it makes a man dreadfully sore to walk about so much.
— from Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells
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