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— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
I have no hope that I shall ever call you mine, Estella.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
He likewise took such effectual care in punishing magistrates of the city, and governors of provinces, guilty of malversation, that they never were at any time more moderate or more just.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius
At that point, exalted in contemplation, I saw all Hind, from Ceylon in the sea to the Hills, and my own Painted Rocks at Such-zen; I saw every camp and village, to the least, where we have ever rested.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling
E'en the great marble giant Called Nabo, sways pliant Like a tree; whilst the flare Seemed each column to scorch As it blazed like a torch Round and round in the air.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo
Whether such examples come up to the present case may be doubted.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus
He listened, between joy and pain—joy to be sitting here, honoured with her confidences, though he had none but a listener's share in them—here, in the still, scented evening, caressed by her marvellous voice; and pain, not because her talk charged life full of new meanings, every one of which he felt to be vitally true and as certainly missed by his own starved experience, but because it took him for granted as a kindly stranger, an outsider admitted to these mysteries, and warned him that his time on this holy ground was short; nay, that it was drawing swiftly to a close.
— from Major Vigoureux by Arthur Quiller-Couch
Erast liked to speak about Italy; Paolo knew how to relate; one always saw everything clearly represented when he depicted his home, the shimmering red over Vesuvius, as well as the ripples of the canal which splashed up against the marble steps in Venice.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath
Shunning evil companions.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
SYN: Abridgment, reduction, contraction, curtailment, abstract, summary, epitome, condensation, compression.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
And yet, as he asked himself very naturally, even as he held his smile towards the old man, and studiously away from the girl that fulfilled (either in actuality or in the guilty similarity set up by his soul) every condition of the old fellow's warning—was this the proper moment to declare to her what he had to declare to her?
— from The Post-Girl by Edward Charles Booth
Natural hazards: sandstorms and dust storms in summer Environment - current issues: very limited natural fresh water resources; inadequate supplies of potable water; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection signed, but not ratified: Nuclear Test Ban Geography - note: strategic location on Bab el Mandeb, the strait linking the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, one of world's most active shipping lanes Yemen People Population: 18,078,035 (July 2001 est.)
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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