Todas las noches crujen algunos árboles y saltan hechos astillas por el rigor de la helada, y yo traslado a mi gruta cada mañana miles de estos fragmentos, que alimentarán mi hogar hasta que me muera.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
A DISCOURSE WHICH WON THE PRIZE AT THE ACADEMY OF DIJON IN 1750, ON THIS QUESTION PROPOSED BY THE ACADEMY: HAS THE RESTORATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES HAD A PURIFYING EFFECT UPON MORALS?
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
They descended the staircase together,—gaunt, sallow Hepzibah, and pale, emaciated, age-stricken Clifford!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
[pg xvii] "There is some truth, though some malicious exaggeration, in the lines of Pope.— "'The critic eye—that microscope of wit Sees hairs and pores, examines bit by bit, How parts relate to parts, or they to whole
— from The Iliad by Homer
Upon enquiry I found that the Stranger had already past eight days in Ratisbon:
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Apparently the single house, and possibly even the household, had vanished.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The lamps across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The society had a precarious existence of 096 one or two years and finally went to pieces.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
With the coming of peace in 1945 there was considerable uncertainty as to whether the United States should have a propaganda establishment at all.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
“And I thought all German men were so heavy, and paid elaborate, underdone compliments.
— from The Zeppelin's Passenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
For them society has a place even when their habits are known.
— from Men, Women, and God A Discussion of Sex Questions from the Christian Point of View by A. Herbert (Arthur Herbert) Gray
He felt confident that Nella-Rose, safely hidden and probably enjoying it in her own elfish way, would communicate with him in a few days at the latest, now that things had, according to White, somewhat settled into shape after the outlaw Lawson had taken himself off the scene.
— from The Man Thou Gavest by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock
His words almost jarred on Mrs. Roberts; she had already prayed enough for her boys to have a sort of tender feeling for them—a half desire to cover their faults from the gaze of the indifferent world.
— from Ester Ried Yet Speaking by Pansy
Should have a place, even in a small collection.
— from Soil Culture Containing a Comprehensive View of Agriculture, Horticulture, Pomology, Domestic Animals, Rural Economy, and Agricultural Literature by J. H. Walden
Tinker cherished but a faint hope that Fortune would ever send him a prisoner, even a braw, shock-headed lad, or sonsie, savage lassie of the country.
— from The Admirable Tinker Child of the World by Edgar Jepson
The child, if left to himself, without a word of admonishment, would probably change his conduct in these respects, merely by the force of imitation, provided that the adults around him set him, a persistent example of courtesy, gentleness, and cleanliness.
— from Study of Child Life by Marion Foster Washburne
there stood Bethesda Pool, looking as if she had a party every week of her life, and had nothing in the world to do but stand there and look fine.
— from Jim of Hellas, or In Durance Vile; The Troubling of Bethesda Pool by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
"That may be, but I can't afford to pay so heavy a price every time I enter this place.
— from The Jucklins: A Novel by Opie Percival Read
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