When the cook had recovered from her fright she lifted up the fish which had fallen into the ashes, but she found them as black as cinders, and not fit to serve up to the Sultan. — from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
tint and bright azure circlet
He looked at the box: I saw its clear warm tint and bright azure circlet, pleased his eyes. — from Villette by Charlotte Brontë
Or were they Spanish Stamps, still travelling, 30 That are become as Catholique as their King, Those unlickt beare-whelps, unfil'd pistolets That (more than Canon shot) availes or lets; Which negligently left unrounded, looke Like many angled figures, in the booke 35 Of some great Conjurer that would enforce Nature, as these doe justice, from her course; Which, as the soule quickens head, feet and heart, As streames, like veines, run through th'earth's every part, Visit all Countries, and have slily made 40 Gorgeous France , ruin'd, ragged and decay'd; Scotland , which knew no State, proud in one day: And mangled seventeen-headed Belgia . — from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2)
Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne
to a bright and cloudless
H2 anchor CHAPTER 39 I n which another old Friend encounters Smike, very opportunely and to some Purpose The night, fraught with so much bitterness to one poor soul, had given place to a bright and cloudless summer morning, when a north-country mail-coach traversed, with cheerful noise, the yet silent streets of Islington, and, giving brisk note of its approach with the lively winding of the guard’s horn, clattered onward to its halting-place hard by the Post Office. — from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
to Athens bearing a child
His wife, however, escaped, how, I know not, to Athens, bearing a child with her, whom she named Tisisthenes, or the Mighty Avenger. — from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
thereof and by a confession
the Lord required, that there should every year once, bee made an Atonement for the Sins of all Israel, both Priests, and others; for the doing whereof, Aaron alone was to sacrifice for himself and the Priests a young Bullock; and for the rest of the people, he was to receive from them two young Goates, of which he was to Sacrifice one; but as for the other, which was the Scape Goat, he was to lay his hands on the head thereof, and by a confession of the iniquities of the people, to lay them all on that head, and then by some opportune man, to cause the Goat to be led into the wildernesse, and there to Escape, and carry away with him the iniquities of the people. — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
The agent browbeats and contradicts
The agent browbeats and contradicts you, hurries and confuses the ignorant, gives many persons the wrong change, compels some to purchase their tickets on the train at a higher price, and sends you and me out on the platform, burning with indignation and hatred! — from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Explaining the complete information system possessed by the Germans, Mr. F. P. Garvan informs us that the head of the system in America for years before the war was Dr. Hugo Schweitzer, President of the Bayer Company there, and he even quotes his secret service number given him by the Imperial Minister of War, stating that he came to America, became a citizen on the instruction of the German Government, and led the espionage and propagandist movements down to the day of his sudden death in November, 1917. — from The Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and War by Victor Lefebure
trucks and began a conversation
A few regulars--sunburnt men, who had fought their way in with Buller--sauntered up to the trucks, and began a conversation with the reinforcement. — from Ian Hamilton's March by Winston Churchill
There was a small bridge over the Kangsa, then a guard-room and some official residences on stilts, and at the top of a steep slope the bungalow, which has a long flight of stairs under a latticed porch, leading to a broad and comfortably furnished veranda used as the Resident's office and sitting-room, the centre part, which has a bed- room on each side of it and runs to the back of the house, serving for the e — from The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all bishops and curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy sacraments: and to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and especially to this congregation here present, that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy word, truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of their life. — from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip
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