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says correctly Love and

Taine says, correctly: “Love and amour, girl and jeune fille, song and chanson, are not identical although they are substituted for one another.”
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

sons Came like a

As when the potent rod Of Amram's son, in Egypt's evil day, Waved round the coast, up-called a pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darkened all the land of Nile; So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires; Till, as a signal given, th' uplifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct Their course, in even balance down they light On the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain: A multitude like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

shadowy claim like a

I was going home, and he had come to me from there, with his miserable trouble and his shadowy claim, like a man panting under a burden in a mist.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

small creature like an

And true to his word, to the wonder of all, he made himself into a small creature like an insect, and entered into the phial.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

smoke crackling lights and

We floated straight out of the darkness and stillness of the river into an enchanted realm, full of stifling smoke, crackling lights and uproar.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Stop C L answered

The panias know's we do not begin the war, they allway begin, we Sent a Chief and a pipe to the Pania to Smoke and they killed them-, we have killed enough of them we kill them like the birds, we do not wish to kill more, we will, make a good peace We were Sorry when we heard of your going up but now you are going down, we are glad, if we eat you Shall eat, if we Starve you must Starve also, our village is too far to bring the Corn to you, but we hope you will Call on us as you pass to the place you intend to Stop C L answered the above- H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

stiffest character like a

When my ablutions were completed, I was put into clean linen of the stiffest character, like a young penitent into sackcloth, and was trussed up in my tightest and fearfullest suit.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

such cases like a

I said it (people often do so, in such cases) like a rather reluctant concession to truth and justice;—as if I wanted to deny it!
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

strange coast like a

The ship was off any known course more than two thousand miles from any known port; and contrary winds might cause delay or drive the vessel on the countless reefs that lined this strange coast, like a ploughed field.
— from Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. Laut

She crept like a

She crept like a Tortoise, She soared like a Lark, She drank like a Fish, She ate like a Shark—Oh yes!
— from Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

shell coral lips and

Blue eyes, golden hair, cheeks like a tinted sea-shell, coral lips and the sweetest of smiles, made up for Jack a vision of beauty bewilderingly new and strange.
— from By Far Euphrates: A Tale by Deborah Alcock

stables Camilla lost all

In the stables Camilla lost all sense of restraint.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

speakes common Loves and

Lend me your hand sweet Prince, hereby enjoy A full fruition of your best contents, The interest I hold I doe possesse you with, Onely a fathers care, and prayers retaine, That heaven may heape on blessings, take her Prince, A sweeter Mistrisse then the offered Language of any dame, were she a Queene whose eye speakes common Loves, and comfort to her servants: Last Noble son, for
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher

se cacher Love and

Fr. L'amour et la fumée ne peuvent se cacher —Love and smoke cannot be concealed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

she could lead a

He did not even frown when Mimotchka mentioned his name, but, on the contrary, he endeavoured to instil into her that with such a husband she could lead a very pleasant, easy life.
— from Mimi's Marriage by Lidiia Ivanovna Veselitskaia

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