A circle, to show that your God is all near, is filling The seen and unseen with His incomprehensible presence.
— from Victor Roy, a Masonic Poem by Harriet Annie Wilkins
"Now," she said, "you go through that door!"--she pointed out an iron door on the opposite side; "then you get into a narrow court-yard; keep to the left, and thus you can get through my brewer's house into Brother street.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
I'm sayin' to you, get in a new chair, and get ready for the boom.
— from Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel by Emerson Hough
After this feste , my young Lord Ashburnham's coach was for ever rolling in and out of Kensington Square; his lady-mother came to visit Esmond's mistress, and at every assembly in the town, wherever the maid of honour made her appearance, you might be pretty sure to see the young gentleman in a new suit every week, and decked out in all the finery that his tailor or embroiderer could furnish for him.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray
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