She felt that now, now, she was at the depths of herself.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
On the north near it are Mount Amanus and Commagene.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
The new nask; Clerkenwell bridewell.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Neither was that notion necessarily disturbed by such temporary aberrations as those of the French Revolution, the worst of which were the work of a usurping few, and which, in any case, belonged, not to the permanent working of popular institutions, but to a sudden and convulsive outbreak against monarchical and aristocratic despotism.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
She took no notice whatever of the visitors.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
" As he was going to Calcutta, Nisindapur, though not near, was on his way.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore
Sow Thistles are generally so well known, that they need no description.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper
We spent some time looking over manuscripts and photographs, in order that he should be saturated with the subject, and the next night he went to the Mansion House full of his theme.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
So Emory was ordered to retire to Winchester on the night of the 15th, and Wright and Crook to follow through Winchester to Clifton the next night.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan
Justice is nothing but the recognition and enforcement of this natural necessity.
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong
There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9] by William Shakespeare
And afterwards, my Lord Barkeley merrily discoursing that he wished his profit greater than it was, and that he did believe that he had got L50,000 since he came in, Mr. Coventry did openly declare that his Lordship, or any of us, should have not only all he had got, but all that he had in the world (and yet he did not come a beggar into the Navy, nor would yet be thought to speak in any contempt of his Royall Highness's bounty), and should have a year to consider of it too, for L25,000.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 by Samuel Pepys
I do not know how the soldiers and rustics would have behaved in case of an attack, but am inclined to believe that if three such men as Richard Turpin had suddenly galloped forth from behind one of the bush-covered knolls, neither the numbers nor resistance opposed to them would have prevented them from bearing away the contents of the strong box jingling in their saddle-bags.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow
Probably the Executive Council took no notice of it; for certain papers found in the iron chest at the Tuileries cast doubts on the purity of Talleyrand's patriotism.
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose
Lord Lynwood was silent a moment, but Estelle exclaimed, in anxious tones, 'Dear Father, this need not be told to everybody, need it?
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various
The tiled floor is too new, not like Mr. Butler's most respectable reverend old tiles.
— from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 by Maria Edgeworth
Lucas took no notice of Herne's stern gaze, but stared with tearful eyes into the hole, at the bottom of which lay the coffin of Milly Lester.
— from The Rainbow Feather by Fergus Hume
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