But this zeal of Herod's did not flow from that principle, but because he had been made governor of that country without having any just claim to it, he was afraid, and that upon reasons good enough, of a change in his condition, and so made what haste he could to get Hyrcanus into his power, or indeed to put him quite out of the way; which last thing he compassed afterward. — from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
up rather grimly even
Against the uniform sheet of snow and the greyish winter sky the Italian villa loomed up rather grimly; even in summer it kept its distance, and the boldest coleus bed had never ventured nearer than thirty feet from its awful front. — from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Their 'bach' (as in Staubbach, Giesbach, Reichenbach) being essentially a mountain waterfall; and their 'amsel,' as our Damsel, merely the Teutonic form of the Demoiselle or Domicilla—'House-Ouzel,' as it were, (said of a nice girl)—Domicilla again being, I think, merely the transposition of Ancilla Domini,—Behold, the handmaid of the Lord: (see frontispiece to third volume of 'Modern Painters') which, if young ladies in general were to embroider on their girdles—though their dresses, fitting at present 'as close as a glove' (see description of modern American ideal in 'A Fair Barbarian') do not usually require girdles either for their keys or their manners,—it would probably be thought irreverent by modern clergymen; but if the demoiselle were none the better for it, she could certainly be none the worse. — from Love's Meinie: Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds by John Ruskin
of conditioned on negro suffrage by 14 th amendment, 298 ; proposed to refuse suffrage to leaders of, 299 ; mistake of such course, 301 ; excepting Tennessee, rejects 14 th amendment, 304 ; reconstruction of, see Reconstruction; government of under reconstruction bill begins, 307 , 310 ; number of negro voters in various States of, 311 ; trials and struggles of under new conditions, under martial law, restored to self-government, 316 ; unfitness of negroes in for suffrage, whites refuse to vote, constitutional conventions held and negro delegates chosen, 317 ; typical attitude of whites in; under "carpet bag" rule, 318 , 332 ; Northern immigration into, 319 ; Northern teachers insulted or disdained in; Northerners in politics in; legislation in during reconstruction, 320 ; extravagance, waste and corruption in under Republican governments; exaggeration of, 321 ; negro rule in, 319 , 321 ; resumption of white leadership in, 322 ff; continued interference of Congress in, 326 ; growth of Republican opposition to Federal interference in; repudiation in, 332 ; Democrats organize resistance to Republican rule in and practice intimidation, 339 ff; Federal troops withdrawn from, 353 ; regeneration of, 354 ; whites in driven to labor, 355 ; end of Federal interference in, 371 , 402 ; negro suffrage practically nullified in, civil rights secured to negroes, 372 , 382 , 388 ; refuses social equality to negro, 373 , — from The Negro and the Nation
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