I could not have imagined that on such a small space as the wrinkled, angular face of that little man room could be found, at one and the same time, for so many different grimaces, for such strange, variously characteristic shades of feeling, such absolutely killing expressions.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rearde , sb. voice, cry, S2; see Rerd .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
; queymows , Prompt.; sweymows , Prompt.; squaymous , CM; squeamous , CM; squaymose , verecundus , Cath.; skoymus , disdainful, Cath.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
The husband has to contribute the rice, cocoanut, and plantains, and present seven vessels containing sweetmeats.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
His mind, indeed, lies parted asunder in his works, like some vast continent severed by a convulsion of nature,—each portion peopled by its own giant race of opinions, differing altogether in features and language, and committed in eternal hostility with each other.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore
"Well, the bar was a great help," he says, very chipper; "so I only lose about fourteen hundred all told.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson
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