The whole comedy hinges on a huge joke, played by a heartless nephew on his misanthropic uncle, who is induced to take to himself a wife, young, fair, and warranted silent, but who, in the end, turns out neither silent nor a woman at all.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson
In motion being each and both carried westward, forward and rereward respectively, by the proper perpetual motion of the earth through everchanging tracks of neverchanging space.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
And when Britain and Japan made an alliance in 1902 on the basis of guaranteeing the status quo in the East, the overwhelming naval strength of the two allies made a European partition of China impracticable; and China was once more given a breathing-space.
— from The Expansion of Europe; The Culmination of Modern History by Ramsay Muir
I also owe much to Mrs. Langloh Parker, who generously permitted me to read, in her MS., her valuable account of the Euahlayi tribe of New South Wales, which is to be published by Messrs. Archibald Constable.
— from The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang
The only approach to a plot arises from the extraordinary treachery of Nelly’s sister, an original but not very lifelike figure.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various
It has no such jaws —projecting tusks , and other palpable signs of violent disrupture, as make the expressive title of " Notch " so fitly applied to its great rival in the White Mountains.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various
Stooping over the empty tube of number six, he examined the ring carefully and began to frown.
— from Sabotage in Space by Carey Rockwell
From the acceptance of the economic tenets of national Socialism to advocacy of internationalism is but a small step, easy to take for one who, in joining the Socialist party, finds himself the associate of men who address him as "comrade" and who look forward to a day when all men, white, black or yellow, shall also be comrades under one flag and enlisted in one cause—the cause of common humanity.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton
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