Neither is this the only advantage derived from so ingenious a contrivance; were it not for the plan adopted, the [9] tendon of the muscle u x would press upon the optic nerve, and thus materially interfere with vision—an inconvenience that by the existing arrangement is totally prevented.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm
TRESSADY TO MY UNDOING XLV OF THE COMING OF ADAM PENFEATHER XLVI HOW
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol
He heartily agrees with Mr. Ernest Newman, who has written with unsurpassed acumen and force concerning programme-music and its principles, when he asserts that "if the poem or the picture was necessary to the composer's imagination, it is necessary to mine; if it is not necessary to either of us, he has no right to affix the title of it to his work; ... if melody, harmony, and development are all shaped and directed by certain pictures in the musician's mind, we get no further than the mere outside of the music unless [xiv] we are familiar with those pictures."
— from Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day by Lawrence Gilman
Tygranes, who was general of the Medes under Xerxes, was of the race of Achmænes, Heriod. lib.
— from Essays by David Hume
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