He had on a shabby cadet jacket, decorated with a soldier’s cross, equally shabby cadet’s riding breeches lined with worn leather, and an officer’s saber with a sword knot.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
“Come right along, friends,” said Col. Jack; “don’t mind us.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain
The paddock abutted on this end of the building, and in the paddock she could just discern by the uncertain gray a moving figure approaching the horse that was feeding there.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Ses camarades, jaloux de la réputation qu'il s'était acquise par son talent, tâchaient de l'imiter, mais les spectateurs, prévenus, disaient toujours: «Cela est bien; mais qu'est-ce en comparaison du porc de Parmenon?» Un de ses rivaux prit un jour sous sa robe un jeune porc qu'il fit grogner.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
THE FOURTH HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, afterwards HENRY PRINCE JOHN OF LANCASTER PRINCE HUMPHREY OF GLOUCESTER THOMAS, DUKE OF CLARENCE Sons of Henry IV EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND SCROOP, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK LORD MOWBRAY LORD HASTINGS LORD BARDOLPH SIR JOHN COLVILLE TRAVERS and MORTON, retainers of Northumberland Opposites against King Henry IV EARL OF WARWICK EARL OF WESTMORELAND EARL OF SURREY EARL OF KENT GOWER HARCOURT BLUNT Of the King's party LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SERVANT, to Lord Chief Justice SIR JOHN FALSTAFF EDWARD POINS BARDOLPH PISTOL PETO Irregular humourists PAGE, to Falstaff ROBERT SHALLOW and SILENCE, country Justices DAVY, servant to Shallow FANG and SNARE, Sheriff's officers RALPH MOULDY SIMON SHADOW THOMAS
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Analogous Rites in India IN THE KANAGRA district of India there is a custom observed by young girls in spring which closely resembles some of the European spring ceremonies just described.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer
But, just as we had got a little below Gravesend, we came alongside of a ship which was going away the next tide for the West Indies; her name was the Charming Sally, Captain James Doran; and my master went on board and agreed with him for me; and in a little time I was sent for into the cabin.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano
By the twilight, admitted through an open portico, she could just distinguish this apartment to be of very light and airy architecture, and that it was paved with white marble, pillars of which supported the roof, that rose into arches built in the Moorish style.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
K ERSLEY will find much information of the kind he wishes in the genealogies of the families of Bretagne by D'Hosier, "Chevalier, Conseiller du roy en ses conseils, Juge d'Armes de la Noblesse de France," circiter 1765.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 121, February 21, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various
Aldermen, W. G. Dows, George W. Eakle, W. G. Haskell, John Juza, R. N. Buck, R. D. Mills, Joseph Pitlik, S. J. Maloney, F. W. Harwood, David W. King, J. Y. Kennedy, J. B. Leverich, C. W. Burton, V. W. Johnson, J. H. Rothrock, Jr., Henry J. Rapps. 1898 John M. Redmond, mayor; T. M. Giberson, judge superior court; J. D. Blain, recorder; Thomas Devendorf, treasurer; J. A. Hildebrand, assessor; Joseph Kozlovsky, marshal; John L. Starman, chief of fire department; John N. Hughes, city attorney; G. H. Merridith, city engineer.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer
But when Dietel angrily forbade such insolent mockery, she cried jeeringly: "Do you think men don't care for her because she has lost her foot and has that little cough?
— from In the Blue Pike — Complete by Georg Ebers
"Come right along, friends," said Col. Jack; "don't mind us.
— from Roughing It, Part 5. by Mark Twain
Partout, sur ce vélin, je frissonne de voir Des vers séditieux soulignés d'un trait noir; Le doigt accusateur laisse partout sa trace, Et je suis criminel jusque dans ma préface; Ah! du moins, il fallait, moins prompt à me juger Pour me juger, tout lire et tout interroger; Il fallait, surmontant les ennuis de l'ouvrage, Jusqu'au dernier feuillet forcer votre courage, Et, traversant mon livre un scalpel à la main, Avancer hardiment jusqu'au bout du chemin.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas
Sterling Christmas Waits Katherine West A Christmas Party Lizzie M. Hadley RECITATIONS FOR THE PRIMARY GRADE: Santa's Helpers M. Nora Boylan Christmas Eve Eugene Field Santa Claus's Visit Susie M. Best To Santa Claus Jennie D. Moore What I Should Like Jennie D. Moore A Gentle Reminder
— from Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg
She could remember a good many husbands and wives with whom she had met who so far as she could judge, did not appear to have been created for the benefit of one another.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt
"Why, the verse says Christ Jesus did."
— from Rosa's Quest Or, The Way to the Beautiful Land by Anna Potter Wright
Santander, 205 Santa Agueda, Monte de, in Minorca, 220 ; surrender of Moors at, 234 Santañi founded, 109 ; stones for Palma cathedral from, 112 Santa Ana, chapel in the Almudaina, 111 San Carlos ship (sixty guns), 257 Santa Cilia, noble family of Majorca, 109 ; inherited Alfavia, 142 , 156 ; coat of arms, 157 ; Pedro Juan, received Charles V. at Palma, 176 ; origin, 142 ; friend of Jayme III., 142 ; Arnaldo de, 157 San Clemente, Jayme de, rescued Jayme IV.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir
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