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— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus
Just at the time in the afternoon, blind man's holiday, when Lucy had been used to ride off on her dream to visit some wonderful place, there came a knock at the front door; a quite real substantial English knock and ring, that did not sound at all like any of the strange noise of the strange worlds that she had lately been hearing, but had the real tinkle of Uncle Joe's own bell.
— from Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
The phrases, “they say,” “everybody knows,” “nobody doubts,” “as most neighbors agree,” and however else these seeds of dishonesty and slander may be designated—all these phrases must disappear from our papers and procedure.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross
This I will proceed to describe; but as you may think the description a little too coarse, I ask you to suppose, Socrates, that the words which follow are not mine.—Let me put them into the mouths of the eulogists of injustice: They will tell you that the just man who is thought unjust will be scourged, racked, bound—will have his eyes burnt out; and, at last, after suffering every kind of evil, he will be impaled: Then he will understand that he 362 ought to seem only, and not to be, just; The just man will learn by each experience that he ought to seem and not to be just.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
[311] In his history of the Skoponong Congregation (founded in 1844), C. M. Mason, Secretary of the congregation, names also the following among the earliest members of the church: Halvor Mathison (in whose house the church was organized in 1844), Styrk Erikson, Knud Dokstad, Nils Herre, Ole Sjurson, Simon Sakrison, Jacob Kaasne, Halvor Glenna, Mathias Baura, Björn Hefte, Sjur Flittre, Lars Klove, Mathias Lia and Even Gulseth.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom
of Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart.,
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton
For the term ‘Art’—when applied to the contents of a treatise—seems to signify systematic express knowledge (as distinguished from the implicit knowledge or organised habit which we call skill) of the right means to a given end.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
sich bewerben make an application sich beziehen auf refer to sich daraus ergebende Streitigkeit subsequent dispute sich dauernd wiederholend continual sich der Dienste einer anderen Bank bedient uses the services of another bank sich der Fertigstellung nähern nearing the completion sich der Mehrheit anschließen join the majority sich einem Kartell anschließen join a cartel sich eines guten Rufes erfreuen enjoy a good reputation sich einigen to come to an understanding sich einigen to come to terms sich einigen; einen Vergleich schließen to come to a mutual agreement sich einigen; übereinkommen come to an agreement sich einkaufen buy into sich einmischen interfere sich entschädigen recoup sich entschuldigen apologize sich ereignen occur sich ergänzende Lebensmittel complementary food sich ergebend aus ihrer Nichtbefolgung arising from their failing sich erholen recover sich erneuernder Kredit revolving credit sich etablieren establish sich etablieren establish oneself sich frei nehmen take a day off sich für Auslagen sofort zu erholen promptly to recover outlays sich gegenseitig ergänzend; komplimentär complimentary sich gut verkaufen sell well sich hieraus ergebende Kosten costs resulting from this sich hieraus ergebende Verzögerungen delays resulting from this sich
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
Jest as well tote your gun a little while, till somebody else kills him for you."
— from Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page
They rode for miles in silence, or strove to talk upon indifferent subjects, each knowing what was passing in the other's mind, and afraid to bring the awful question to an issue.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
With that he went to Theodoric, and prayed him earnestly four times, by his regard for knightly [ 52 ] honour, for woman’s worth, for friendship, and for virtue—four things which, at receiving his sword, every knight bound himself to honour, that he would spare Lareyn.
— from Household stories from the Land of Hofer; or, Popular Myths of Tirol by Rachel Harriette Busk
All developed women desire to be loved, says Ellen Key, not "en mâle" but "en artiste" ( Liebe und Ehe , p. 92).
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
[Pg 69] If the Englishman has, as I said elsewhere, knocked down to himself the kingdom of Heaven, which he looks upon as a British possession, the Scotchman has discerned to himself all the best places therein.
— from Friend Mac Donald by Max O'Rell
It was as follows: “Know ye, that our trusty and well-beloved John Graves Simcoe, Esquire, our Lieutenant-Governor of our Province of Upper Canada, hath, and by this our proclamation doth, divide the said Province of Upper Canada into counties, and hath and doth appoint and declare the number of representatives of them, and each of them, to be as hereinafter limited, named, declared, and appointed,” &c. Nineteen counties were formed, namely: “Glengary, Stormont, Dundas, Grenville, Leeds, Frontenac, Ontario, Addington, Lenox, Prince Edward, Hastings, Northumberland, Durham, York, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent.”
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff
The air was, in fact, wind; but of a dry, soft, exhilarating kind.
— from Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
[Sidenote: English Kingdoms Consolidated.] Covetous of each other's possessions, these Teutons fought as brothers will.
— from The Evolution of an Empire: A Brief Historical Sketch of England by Mary Platt Parmele
Such was the form and solemnity of this auto-da-fé, the largest and most splendid ever known."
— from History of the Inquisition from Its Establishment Till the Present Time by William Sime
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