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we have explained and

The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

will he exult above

Even though some unjust charge be brought against him, he will care little; nor, again, will he exult above measure, if through others he be clearly vindicated.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

with him Ethelberg and

In Chapter 20 we have a dramatic climax to the book in the overthrow and death of Edwin at the battle of Hatfield in 633 a.d. ; the devastation of Northumbria by the British king, Caedwalla, and Penda of Mercia; and the flight of Paulinus, taking with him Ethelberg and Eanfled to Kent, where he ends his life in charge of the Church of Rochester.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

was her element and

At all ordinary diet and plain beverage she would pout; but she fed on creams and ices like a humming-bird on honey-paste: sweet wine was her element, and sweet cake her daily bread.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

wife he enjoyed an

46 If he reckoned, among the favors of fortune, the death of his eldest son, of his nephew, and perhaps of his wife, he enjoyed an uninterrupted flow of private as well as public felicity, till the thirtieth year of his reign; a period which none of his predecessors, since Augustus, had been permitted to celebrate.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

wiping his eyes and

They asked him to go in, and he stepped into the stable, and sat down on the stairs there, wiping his eyes, and sighing so sadly, that it grieved the servants to hear him.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

When he entered a

When he entered, a young man with smooth yellow hair, who was bending over a lamp lighting a long thin pipe, looked up at him and nodded in a hesitating manner.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

windows had each an

To a central building were attached wings with gables to the south: the windows had each an architectural decoration or pediment over it.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

which he entered and

Jones then apprehended it might lead to some other apartment; but upon searching all round it, he could perceive no other door than that at which he entered, and where the centinel had been posted.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

wink his eyes as

Mary even thought she saw him wink his eyes as if to wink tears away.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

which his English and

France and the Middle Ages are to him here what the East and the world of legend were to become—a costume in which his English and Protestant ideas figure.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England by Georg Brandes

with his elbow and

“If the—” He stopped short, for Saint Simon gave him a sharp jerk with his elbow and continued his speech.
— from The King's Esquires; Or, The Jewel of France by George Manville Fenn

when he encounters a

A young man who has spent all his time in the schoolroom is usually hopelessly helpless when he encounters a real circumstance.
— from Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets Being a selection, with revision, from the teachers' leaflets, home nature-study lessons, junior naturalist monthlies and other publications from the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1896-1904 by New York State College of Agriculture

with her eyes and

She's quite capable of mesmerizing you with her eyes and robbing you with her hands at the same time.
— from The After House by Mary Roberts Rinehart

with her even after

So vivid was the impression that it remained with her even after she awakened from sleep and in rushing forward to the place where the vision appeared, she ran into the side of the house.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

world has ever accepted

It will by its courage and its honesty give to the world a truer and a nobler moral standard than the world has ever accepted yet.
— from Sex and Common-Sense by A. Maude (Agnes Maude) Royden

while her embrace and

She spoke with as much lightness of tone as she could command, while her embrace and her caresses conveyed the sympathy she would not put into words.
— from The Philistines by Arlo Bates

without having encountered any

Arnold returned to Portsmouth on the twentieth of January without having encountered any serious interruption.
— from History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

will hear everywhere above

In such a night you will probably let yourself drift awhile with the stream of sight-seers through [40] dazzling lanes of booths full of toys indescribable—dainty puerilities, fragile astonishments, laughter-making oddities;—you will observe representations of demons, gods, and goblins;—you will be startled by mandō —immense lantern-transparencies, with monstrous faces painted upon them;—you will have glimpses of jugglers, acrobats, sword-dancers, fortune-tellers;—you will hear everywhere, above the tumult of voices, a ceaseless blowing of flutes and booming of drums.
— from Exotics and Retrospectives by Lafcadio Hearn

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