The soldiers present arms; there is a low rumble of drums; the sumptuous great hearse approaches, drawn at a walk by eight black horses plumed with black bunches of nodding ostrich feathers; the coffin is borne into the church, the doors are closed.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
And now as he looked into the candle its flame dumbly expressed to him that it was made to shine on sensible people, and that it abhorred lighting the face of a dupe and a failure.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
But I assure you, on the Word of a King, I never did intend any Force, but shall proceed against them in a legal and fair way, for I never meant any other.
— from Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott
Each was thus allowed to roam his own way, and this was the more hazardous, as the hurricane ofttimes tore up a smaller pine and, twisting it about like a cork-screw, flung it down like a straw.
— from Polly of Pebbly Pit by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
After locating the 1 Evidently the ridge which had been held by Stuart on the 17th. JACKSON AND COLONEL LEE 265 different batteries, unlimbered and ready for action, and noting the strong skirmish line, in front of the dense masses of infantry, I said to him, ‘General, that is a very strong position, and there is a large force there.’
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson
I can give you some pins, and there is a little summer-house at the end of the path, where you can sit down and fasten it properly.
— from The Fortunes of the Farrells by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
In this case the short pieces are thrown into a large circular drum with hot water, and the bark taken off by the friction of the pieces as the drum rotates.
— from The Manufacture of Paper With Illustrations, and a Bibliography of Works Relating to Cellulose and Paper-Making by R. W. (Robert Walter) Sindall
Primary papilla covered with secondary papillæ and terminating in a long spine.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour
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