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call them rather dunghills, where the viper of intolerance deposits her young, that when their teeth are cut and their poison is mature, they may issue forth, filthy and venomous, to sting the Catholic.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
"She cares little enough about fine sentiments, even if he were given to that sort of thing; and I can't believe that he is very ostentatious in declaring his passion.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
This new view of it depressed him dreadfully.
— from The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
CHAPTER I A NIGHT IN TOWN Night had fallen over Alaska—black, uncompromising night; a veil of impenetrable darkness had dropped upon the snow wastes and the ice-fields and the fettered Yukon, sleeping under its ice-chains, and upon the cruel passes where the trails had been made by tracks of blood.
— from A Girl of the Klondike by Victoria Cross
No vision of ill disturbed her.
— from Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers by William Sharp
call them rather dung-hills, where the viper of intolerance deposits her young, that when their teeth are cut and their poison is mature, they may issue forth, filthy and venomous, to sting the Catholic.
— from The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
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