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student in Vienna and knew
Pierre knew all the details of the attempt on Bonaparte’s life in 1809 by a German student in Vienna, and knew that the student had been shot.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

speech in verse another kind
He made her go through the great parts with him; she was Juliet, Lady Macbeth, Cleopatra; he taught her how to speak verse and how to feel the accent of speech in verse, another kind of speech than prose speech; he trained her voice to take hold of the harmonies that lie in words themselves; and she caught them, by ear, as one born to speak many languages catches a foreign language.
— from Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

shall I venture a kick
Shall I double, shall I venture a kick, or shall I charge straight at him?
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

satisfaction in visiting a king
She suffered me not, however, to remain long in my seclusion, but called me to the balcony, to witness the jolting out of their carriages of the aldermen and common councilmen, exhibiting, as she said, "Their fair round bodies with fat capon lined;" and wearing an air of proudly hospitable satisfaction, in visiting a king of France who had found an asylum in a street of the city of Westminster.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney


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