He and his party of Indians lived mainly on fish, but when these became scarce they attempted to snare grouse or kill deer. — from Pioneers in Canada by Harry Johnston
He had the strange notion that they were sounding the alarm to some guardian occupant of the premises,—to a slumbering ghost perhaps. — from Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon
suppose that all the slow growths of
They will also be relieved from the crushing mental burthen imposed upon those who—maintaining that we, in common with the rest of nature, are but products of the blind eternal forces of the universe, and believing also that the time must come when the sun will lose his heat and all life on the earth necessarily cease—have to contemplate a not very distant future in which all this glorious earth—which for untold millions of years has been slowly developing forms of life and beauty to culminate at last in man—shall be as if it had never existed; who are compelled to suppose that all the slow growths of our race struggling towards a higher life, all the agony of martyrs, all the groans of victims, all the evil and misery and undeserved suffering of the ages, all the struggles for freedom, all the efforts towards justice, all the aspirations for virtue and the wellbeing of humanity, shall absolutely vanish, and, "like the baseless fabric of a vision, leave not a wrack behind." — from Darwinism (1889)
An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace
sacred tree and the small group of
The sacred enclosure was only some 12 feet square, and Mrs. Hawes is inclined to believe that its rough walls never stood more than 18 inches high, forming merely a little temenos , in which stood a sacred tree, and the small group of cult objects which were still huddled together in a corner of the shrine. — from The Sea-Kings of Crete by James Baikie
so transparent as to show glimpses of
She had one other blouse, a much better one, made of black net, so transparent as to show glimpses of her coarse, white-cotton underwear, with its high yoke and long sleeves. — from Consequences by E. M. Delafield
sacred to Asshur the supreme god of
The tree of life so largely interwoven into Eastern fabrics was the "Asherah" or "grove" sacred to Asshur the supreme god of the Assyrians, the Lord and Giver of life; and it appears to have been the development of the "Hom" or lotus, which, although it is a Kashmir valley plant, is always admirably rendered in Assyrian sculpture. — from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir
stop to admire the sudden gold of
For the same reason, perchance, she ever and again drives butterflies in clouds from off the land out on to the open sea, and, that the perpetual miracle of Spring may not pall upon us, she gives the world in succession such breadths and tones of colour that even the callous stop to admire the sudden gold of the meadows, the hawthorn lying like snowdrifts along the country, the bridal attire of the chestnuts, or the blue levels of wild hyacinth. — from Sinners and Saints
A Tour Across the States and Round Them, with Three Months Among the Mormons by Phil Robinson
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