Thus adjured, Mr Noggs took, from an old trunk, a sheet of paper, which appeared to have been scrawled over in great haste; and after sundry extraordinary demonstrations of reluctance, delivered himself in the following terms.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Et les jours suivants, il disait à toutes les personnes qu'il rencontrait: «Avez-vous lu Baruch?» Depuis, cette interrogation s'emploie quand on a l'esprit rempli d'une chose que l'on considère comme une découverte soudaine, et dont on reste fortement frappé.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
Thus day after day and week after week, he allowed himself to be closeted, unsupported, unadvised, and alone, with men much sharper than himself, in situations of supreme difficulty, where he needed for success every description of resource, fertility, and knowledge.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes
There is a general avoidance of well-water for drinking purposes, and as a substitute the most elaborate arrangements are made for storing every drop of rain-water during the wet season.
— from The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan by Frederick J. Tabor Frost
To study either democracy or romanticism, the Whig party or the poetry of Wordsworth, is to discover how greatly England was influenced by matters that appeared beyond her borders.
— from Outlines of English and American Literature An Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived by William J. (William Joseph) Long
“The perfection of gladness,” he says, “consists not in working miracles, in curing the sick, expelling devils, or raising {263} the dead; nor in learning and knowledge of all things; nor in eloquence to convert the world, but in bearing all ills and injuries and injustice and despiteful treatment with patience and humility.”
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
In fact, in writing this account I am to some extent dependent on reports of other trials.
— from The Adventures of M. D'Haricot by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston
The proposal meets my wishes exactly, and seems to offer me the chance I so eagerly desire of reaching the coast.
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth
395 STANDARD ELECTRICAL DICTIONARY. Ohmic Resistance.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane
That great man does not see in slavery either difference of race or imaginary inferiority or means of government; he only considers it as a scourge inflicted on humanity by the sins of the first man.
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes
Scarcely elsewhere does one roof cover a population of 290, 248, 240 persons, living in dens, honeycombed out of larger rooms, without ventilation, without privacy, and often without direct light.
— from Notes on Old Edinburgh by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
[Pg 242] of the south; and the true voice and spirit of this province is that when the flying slave has once put the roar of Niagara between him and the bay of the bloodhounds of his master—from that hour, no man shall ever dream of recovering him as his chattel property."
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various
Southey, Rev. Charles Cuthbert, his Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey , 308 n., 309 n., 327 n., 329 n., 384 n., 395 n., 400 n., 425 n., 488 n., 521 n., 584 n., 748 n.; on the date of composition of The Doctor , 583 n. Southey, Edith, daughter of Robert S., 578 .
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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