Else why, within so thick a wall, Enclose so poor a treasure? H2 anchor Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live, To see the miscreants feel the pains they give; Deal Freedom's sacred treasures free as air, Till Slave and Despot be but things that were. H2 anchor Thanksgiving For A National Victory Ye hypocrites!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
A term given to a supposed principle accompanying the heat and light of the sunbeam.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson
"The Lacedaemonians," says Pausanias, "appear to have admired least of all people poetry and the praise which it bestows."
— from Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
Similarly the so-called sects [564] in modern China, Burma and Siam are better described as schools, in some ways analogous to such parties as the High and Low Church in England.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
"And my partial little daughter had the bestowal of such preferment and titles," he added laughingly.
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley
Hid away in the cave, somewhere, were Ty Jones, Pepper Kendal, and the Chink, unhurt so far as we knew, and two others, still probably able to help a little.
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason
“‘ Jean .’” “I can’t help wondering, Virginia,” said Priscilla, after they had all laughed again over Jean’s letter, “I can’t help wondering whether Greenie will consider this vocation thrust upon her!”
— from Virginia of Elk Creek Valley by Mary Ellen Chase
Each candidate sought to gain a strong party among the higher and lesser nobility of Poland, and also to gain the favor of the Porte.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz
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