Whether she preserved her secret until death or it came to be discovered and she brought dishonour and disgrace upon the name she had taken, it was her solitary struggle always; and no affection could come near her, and no human creature could render her any aid. — from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
something unknown dawning on
" Marner took her on his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. — from Silas Marner by George Eliot
Amongst the inferior officers we may mention twenty-six ushers, four receivers-general of trust money, three commissioners for the receipt of goods which had been seized under distress, one treasurer and paymaster, three controllers, one physician, two surgeons, two apothecaries, one matron, one receiver of fines, one inspector of estates, several keepers of refreshment establishments, who resided within the precincts of the palace, sixty or eighty notaries, four or five hundred advocates, two hundred attorneys, besides registers and deputy registers. — from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
set up destiny on
Better to have no God, better to set up destiny on one’s own account, better to be a fool, better to be God oneself!’” —“What do I hear!” said then the old pope, with intent ears; “O Zarathustra, thou art more pious than thou believest, with such an unbelief! — from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
some unlawful disports or
Such as live in prison, or some desert place, and cannot have company, as many of our country gentlemen do in solitary houses, they must either be alone without companions, or live beyond their means, and entertain all comers as so many hosts, or else converse with their servants and hinds, such as are unequal, inferior to them, and of a contrary disposition: or else as some do, to avoid solitariness, spend their time with lewd fellows in taverns, and in alehouses, and thence addict themselves to some unlawful disports, or dissolute courses. — from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
And the Doctor [39] must keep his temper : this is often worse to manage than even his time, there is so much unreason, and ingratitude, and peevishness, and impertinence, and impatience, that it is very hard to keep one's tongue and eye from being angry: and sometimes the Doctor does not only well, but the best, when he is downrightly angry, and astonishes some fool, or some insolent, or some untruth doing or saying patient; but the Doctor should be patient with his patients, he should bear with them, knowing how much they are at the moment suffering. — from Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown
stood up dark on
A clump of small fir and cypress trees stood up dark on the hill at the western end of this row, and behind the trees was a line of green hill topped with the ruins of a windmill. — from The Old Front Line by John Masefield
see us disappearing over
"Let me advise you to keep both eyes open; for the first thing you know, you'll see us disappearing over the tops of these mountains. — from Frank among the Rancheros by Harry Castlemon
small unexploited deposits of
*Equatorial Guinea, Geography Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Cameroon and Gabon Map references: Africa, Standard Time Zones of the World Area: total area: 28,050 km2 land area: 28,050 km2 comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland Land boundaries: total 539 km, Cameroon 189 km, Gabon 350 km Coastline: 296 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Gabon because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay Climate: tropical; always hot, humid Terrain: coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic Natural resources: timber, petroleum, small unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium Land use: arable land: 8% permanent crops: 4% meadows and pastures: 4% forest and woodland: 51% other: 33% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: subject to violent windstorms Note: insular and continental regions rather widely separated *Equatorial Guinea, People Population: 399,055 (July 1993 est.) — from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
still useful Dialogues of
Impossibility of teaching by written exposition assumed by Plato; the assumption intelligible in his day 357 Standard by which Plato tested the efficacy of the expository process — Power of sustaining a Sokratic cross-examination 358 Plato never published any of the lectures which he delivered at the Academy ib. Plato would never publish his philosophical opinions in his own name; but he may have published them in the dialogues under the name of others 360 Groups into which the dialogues admit of being thrown 361 Distribution made by Thrasyllus defective, but still useful — Dialogues of Search, Dialogues of Exposition ib. — from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote
350 km Coastline: 296 km Maritime claims: exclusive economic zone: 200 NM territorial sea: 12 NM Climate: tropical; always hot, humid Terrain: coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Pico Basile 3,008 m Natural resources: oil, petroleum, timber, small unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium Land use: arable land: 5% permanent crops: 3% other: 92% (1998 est.) — from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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