The translator used a number of less common name forms and variant spellings: Cæus, Calisto, Lilybœus, Phyale, Phryxus, Progne: The original, Greek-derived forms are Cœus (Κοιος), Callisto (Καλλιστω), Lilybæus (Λιλυβαιος), Phiale (Φιαλη), Phrixus (Φριξος), Procne (Προκνη). — from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid
volition suffers constant consuming
We saw above that the wicked man, by the vehemence of his volition, suffers constant, consuming, inward pain, and finally, if all objects of volition are exhausted, quenches the fiery thirst of his self-will by the sight of the suffering of others. — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
At last, when every man started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the man that sat there to write, saying, "Set down my name, sir:" the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and put a helmet upon his head, and rush toward the door upon the armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force; but the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and hacking most fiercely. — from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan
The loss of thee were truly very slight,— comrade crazy, rude, repelling: One has one's hands full all the day and night; If what one does, or leaves undone, is right, From such a face as thine there is no telling. — from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
various ships contrastingly concurred
And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary cruise, Ahab,—all other whaling waters swept—seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to slay him the more securely there; now, that he found himself hard by the very latitude and longitude where his tormenting wound had been inflicted; now that a vessel had been spoken which on the very day preceding had actually encountered Moby Dick;—and now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the white whale tore his hunters, whether sinning or sinned against; now it was that there lurked a something in the old man’s eyes, which it was hardly sufferable for feeble souls to see. — from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville
verba Si curat cor
Horace , who copied most of his Criticisms after Aristotle , seems to have had his Eye on the foregoing Rule in the following Verses: Et Tragicus plerumque dolet Sermone pedestri, Telephus et Peleus, cum pauper et exul uterque, Projicit ampullas et sesquipedalia verba, Si curat cor Spectantis tetigisse querelâ. — from The Spectator, Volume 1
Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
Vishṇu Smṛiti closely connected
The most important of these is the Vaishṇava Dharma Çāstra or Vishṇu Smṛiti (closely connected with the Kāṭhaka Gṛihya Sūtra ), not earlier than 200 A.D. in its final redaction (ed. by Jolly, Calcutta, 1881, trans. — from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell
vanilla sugarcane cloves cocoa
_#_Exports: $290 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.); commodities—coffee 45%, vanilla 15%, cloves 11%, sugar, petroleum products; partners—France, Japan, Italy, FRG, US _#_Imports: $436 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.); commodities—intermediate manufactures 30%, capital goods 28%, petroleum 15%, consumer goods 14%, food 13%; partners—France, FRG, UK, other EC, US _#_External debt: $3.6 billion (1989) _#_Industrial production: growth rate 5.2% (1990 est.); accounts for 16% of GDP _#_Electricity: 119,000 kW capacity; 430 million kWh produced, 40 kWh per capita (1989) _#_Industries: agricultural processing (meat canneries, soap factories, breweries, tanneries, sugar refining plants), light consumer goods industries (textiles, glassware), cement, automobile assembly plant, paper, petroleum _#_Agriculture: accounts for 40% of GDP; cash crops—coffee, vanilla, sugarcane, cloves, cocoa; food crops—rice, cassava, beans, bananas, peanuts; cattle raising widespread; almost self-sufficient in rice _#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis (cultivated and wild varieties) used mostly for domestic consumption _#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $136 million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $491 million _#_Currency: Malagasy franc (plural—francs); 1 Malagasy franc (FMG) = 100 centimes _#_Exchange rates: Malagasy francs (FMG) per US$1—1,454.6 (December 1990), 1,494.1 (1990), 1,603.4 (1989), 1,407.1 (1988), 1,069.2 (1987), 676.3 (1986), 662.5 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: calendar year _* — from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
very surprised chagrined Cheon
A very jaunty, confident Cheon entered the lists, but a very surprised, chagrined Cheon retired in high dudgeon. — from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn
variously spreading contiguous columns
A phalanx of this species, when passing over a tract of smooth ground, occupies a space of from four to six square yards; on examining the ants closely they are seen to move, not all together in one straightforward direction, but in variously spreading contiguous columns, now separating a little from the general mass, now reuniting with it. — from Animal Intelligence
The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes
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