Yet, even as the thought passed through his mind, Spring seemed once more to regain possession of her kingdom, and everything around him grew golden-green, and trees, shrubs, and herbage started to wave and glimmer under the soft, warm breath of the vernal zephyrs, and larks took to pouring out their souls in endless, ringing strains, and siskins, circling high over sunken ponds, uttered their cry, then skimmed the hillocks in silence, and handsome black rooks stalked among the tender green of the short corn-shoots, or settled among the pale-white, smokelike ripples of the young rye, whence at intervals they protruded their heads. — from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
sake replied one
"It is for your own sake," replied one of the young men, "that we have not granted your request, and to preserve you from our unfortunate fate. — from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
Spaniards relations of
Sourwood , in Cherokee myth and lore 253 , 320 , 422 , 469 South , myth of daughter of 322 South Carolina , cession of last Cherokee lands in 97 South Carolina , Cherokee relations with 31 – 35 South Carolina , expedition from, in 1776 49 – 50 South Carolina , first settlement in 31 South Carolina , local legends of 411 – 412 South Carolina , production of gold in 221 Space , discussion of lv–lvii Spain , claim to land south of Cumberland river by 67 Spain , retention of posts in south by (1790) 68 Spain , surrender of southern posts by 81 Spain , treaty with (1795) 81 Spaniards , Cherokee feeling toward 282 Spaniards , encouragement of Indian hostility by 62 – 63 , 64 , 67 – 68 , 76 , 88 Spaniards , in southern United States 191 – 202 Spaniards , legends concerning 408 Spaniards , period of exploration by 23 – 29 Spaniards , relations of, with Indians 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 Spanish needle in Cherokee lore 426 Sparrow , Cherokee name for 281 Spear-finger , see Uʻtluñ′ta . — from Myths of the Cherokee
Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney
In no way wearied by his sallies on the road, he was in the drawing-room before any of us; and I heard him at the piano while I was yet looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score. — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Perhaps that, or the fact that she had wound several rows of amber beads about her neck, reminded him suddenly of the little Ellen Mingott he had danced with at children's parties, when Medora Manson had first brought her to New York. — from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
still remain of
For when the eyelids, which the gods invented for the preservation of sight, are closed, they keep in the internal fire; and the power of the fire diffuses and equalizes the inward motions; when they are equalized, there is rest, and when the rest is profound, sleep comes over us scarce disturbed by dreams; but where the greater motions still remain, of whatever nature and in whatever locality, they engender corresponding visions in dreams, which are remembered by us when we are awake and in the external world. — from Timaeus by Plato
systematic reflection on
And although there are other rules which our common moral sense when first interrogated seems to enunciate as absolutely binding; it has appeared that careful and systematic reflection on this very Common Sense, as expressed in the habitual moral judgments of ordinary men, results in exhibiting the real subordination of these rules to the fundamental principles above given. — from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
Simple Rollo or
In the reign of Charles the Bald’s grandson, Charles the Simple, Rollo or Rolf, the Northman, had established himself at Rouen, and the king had made terms with him, giving him his daughter to wife, and granting him a tract of land from the Epte to the sea, with Rouen as its heart. — from Normandy by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
There will probably be some roughs on board, who will be certain to get up a row, in which case you can make the babies in arms very effective as "buffers" for warding off blows, while the crowd will save you from being knocked down. — from Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870 by Various
stylized representation of
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sq registration of
See Family : family property, 122 , 184 land, 184 Equals, assault on, 62 , 200 , 203 , 204 Esarhaddon, King of Assyria: his long absences, 371 inquiries about oracles, 379 letter from, 360 sequence in his family, 366 , 375 , 376 son of Sennacherib, 108 , 369 Estates, great, plans of, 249 Evicted: purchaser reimbursed, 45 , 9 tenant reimbursed, 50 , Y Exchange of benefice illegal, 48 , 41 Expulsion of judge for altering judgment, 44 , 5 Eye torn out, 61 , 193 fee for cure of, ten shekels of silver, 63 , 215 in diseased state, 63 , 215 knocked out by assailant, 62 , 196 loss of eye assessed at half value of slave, 63 , 220 operated on with bronze lancet, 63 , 215 False judgment: claims for money or goods, 51 , 106 , 107 , 53 , 126 penalty for, 44 , 5 witness, 44 , 3 , 4 Family: alienation of property restricted by its rights, 219 attachment to ancestors, 120 , 132 descendants of artisans, 120 in guilds of trade, 121 property entailed, 122 registration by father or master of the house, 128 registration of birth, marriage, and death, 128 relations of, centred in marriage, 119 sq. registration of descent of, 121 , 128 , 132 Family life, responsibilities of, to the community, 122 Family laws, Sumerian, 9 Farm. — from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
Speaking of building and plans, you say to me, ' You are in no, way answerable if a bad Theatre is built: it is not YOU who built it; and if we come to the STRICT RIGHT of the thing, you have NO BUSINESS TO INTERFERE;' and further on you say, ' Will YOU but STAND ALOOF, and every thing will go smooth , and a good Theatre shall be built;' and in conversation you put, as a similar case, that, ' if a man sold another a piece of land, it was nothing to the seller whether the purchaser built himself a good or a bad house upon it. ' — from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore
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