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Stephanus numbers are given in the right margin.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
He was entertained at the seats of several noblemen and gentlemen in the West of England; but the greatest part of the time was passed at Plymouth, where the magnificence of the navy, the ship-building and all its circumstances, afforded him a grand subject of contemplation.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell
She stepped round to look at us; she was a tall, proud-looking woman, and did not seem pleased about something, but she said nothing, and got into the carriage.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
In looking back on the past, we see no absolute gaps in the continuity of our conscious life; our image of this past is essentially one of an unbroken series of conscious experiences.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully
Dr. Rumsey sat down, wrote a short note and gave it to Awdrey, who hurried off with it.
— from Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story by L. T. Meade
The pilgrim to whom I refer, however, scarcely needed any guide in the Holy Land.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner
Thou picture of beauty and joy to the eye, So noble and grand in thy beauty and splendour That envy must tremble as she passeth by.
— from Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End
After greeting them, she pointed to the window, across the fields, almost bare of snow now and gleaming in the morning sunlight, to the bright waters of the cove.
— from The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold
But the boy had shown splendid nerve and grit in that vital matter of the gradual repayment of the moneys lost through his neglect at the Presidio in '98.
— from A Soldier's Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King
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