" Phoebe's face, at all times almost colorless, seemed scarcely capable of growing paler; but as her eyelids drooped under Robert Audley's searching glance, a visible change came over the pallid hues of her complexion.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
Now, M. Danglars, ask these gentlemen where they are caught.” “Sterlets,” said Château-Renaud, “are only found in the Volga.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
If it be correct in Lehrs (de Studiis Aristarchi, Diss. ii. p. 46) to identify those early glossographers of Homer, whose explanations the Alexandrine critics so severely condemned, with the rhapsodes, this only proves that the rhapsodes had come to undertake a double duty, of which their predecessors before Solôn would never have dreamed.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote
For example, there are clear sinuous streams crossed by many bridges, not unlike by-canals in Venice.
— from Brittany by Dorothy Menpes
Enough for us that in His person He willingly made experience of all the bitterness of sin: that when He agonised in the dark on [218] the cross, and when from out of the darkness came that awful cry, so strangely compact of wistful confidence and utter isolation, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?”
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
If an electric current is passed through a copper sulphate solution, copper is deposited on the negative (platinum) electrode; if the current is reversed, the copper vanishes quite as rapidly at what is now the positive pole.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz
It is plain that a currency so supported cannot depreciate more than the loans; in other words, below the general credit of the country.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud
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