Their admiration, however, was soon changed into sorrow and fear; for the serpent came hissing to the foot [ 18 ] of the tree on the branches of which they were seated, and swallowed up, one by one, the horses tied to the trunk. — from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day
street coming hither the
Lo, flag of truce and chamade; conjuration to halt: Malseigne and Denoue are on the street, coming hither; the soldiers all repentant, ready to submit and march! — from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
she could hardly thank
The completeness of his sympathy with her fancy for having a little John Harmon to protect and rear, he had shown in every act and word, and now that the kind fancy was disappointed, he treated it with a manly tenderness and respect for which she could hardly thank him enough. — from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
should certainly have troubled
She could not listen to that with perfect calmness, but repeatedly regretted the necessity of its concealment, wished she could have known his intention, wished she could have seen him before he went, as she should certainly have troubled him with her best regards to his father and mother, and her kind compliments to all the Skinners. — from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Whenever Charlotte came to see them she concluded her to be anticipating the hour of possession; and whenever she spoke in a low voice to Mr. Collins, was convinced that they were talking of the Longbourn estate, and resolving to turn herself and her daughters out of the house, as soon as Mr. Bennet were dead. — from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
small compass had the
In the ray of light which entered by the narrow window of his cell, he held open in his left hand, of which alone, it will be recollected, he retained the use, a sheet of paper, which, from being constantly rolled into a small compass, had the form of a cylinder, and was not easily kept open. — from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
should carry him to
I observed the poor affectionate creature, every two minutes, or perhaps less, all the while he was here, turn his head about to see if his father was in the same place and posture as he left him sitting; and at last he found he was not to be seen; at which he started up, and, without speaking a word, flew with that swiftness to him that one could scarce perceive his feet to touch the ground as he went; but when he came, he only found he had laid himself down to ease his limbs, so Friday came back to me presently; and then I spoke to the Spaniard to let Friday help him up if he could, and lead him to the boat, and then he should carry him to our dwelling, where I would take care of him. — from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
she could hear the
Yes, she desired to die, and it seemed that she could hear the exclamations of the people at the funeral: “This indeed is what you call a funeral! — from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal
so comes home to
It comes home to the bosoms and businesses of men; for nothing but what so comes home to them in the most general and intelligible shape can be a subject for poetry. — from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan
so committed himself the
The feeling which first grew recognizable in the chaos it had caused, was vexation at having so committed himself; the next, annoyance with his dead old uncle for having led him into such a scrape. — from Thomas Wingfold, Curate by George MacDonald
same coastline has the
Cape Mendocino light, on the same coastline, has the further distinction of being the most elevated light on the United States Pacific coast, the 340,000 candle-power beam being thrown for ten seconds once every thirty seconds from an elevation of 205 422 feet. — from Lightships and Lighthouses by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
still composing himself to
To see Billingsgate in the full tide of its work—and England has no other sight to compare with it—one must rise with the sun in summer, and long before the dawn in winter, when heavily-laden market-carts from Kent are rumbling over London Bridge, whilst the homeless tramp is still composing himself to slumber, and while still the mists cling to the surface of the river so heavily as to seem beyond the power of any mere London sunshine to raise or dispel. — from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.
Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various
An able work, Memoirs , referring to the period between 1750 and 1760, written by K.H. Kallontaj, and published a few years since by count E. Raczynski, gives a graphic picture of the miserable and illiterate state of society in Poland at that time; and shows clearly how the seeds of decay and destruction were already scattered with full hands on a susceptible soil. — from Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations
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suddenly changing his tone
But when Patricia and her sisters had left the dining-room, and Oliver with a slight apology had followed them, the Colonel, in a few feeling words, referred to the death of Squire Peregrine's wife and daughter; then suddenly changing his tone, he added: ‘And where is the boy? — from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 732
January 5, 1878 by Various
some cases however the
In some cases, however, the binary systems of stars furnish a method of estimating an angle of even the tenth of a second, which is thirty times more accurate than by any other means. — from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville
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