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'And now the morrow was rising in the early east, and the dewy darkness rolled away from the sky by Dawn, when sudden out of the forest advances a human shape strange and unknown, worn with uttermost hunger and pitiably attired, and stretches entreating hands towards the shore.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
While the popes established in Italy their freedom and dominion, the images, the first cause of their revolt, were restored in the Eastern empire.
— 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
The water carrier was assailing the owner of the market cart with language more forcible than polite; and the other was retaliating in terms equally expressive, each charging the other with having caused the accident.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur
After nine hours of alternating wind and heat we reached Imintanout, the eastern entrance of the pass which, crossing a valley of the Atlas, leads to Sus. p. 80
— from Mogreb-el-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham
We read in The Edinburgh Evening Dispatch that the attack on the Mort Homme "has brought no kudos to the Crown Prince—only more catacombs."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 150, May 24, 1916 by Various
It is my deepest conviction that man, without religion in the emotional element of his nature, can pursue no ideal ends, cannot see beyond his own personal interest, cannot realise great purposes, cannot be ready to sacrifice himself.
— from The Century of the Child by Ellen Key
[Footnote 46: E. g ., F. Cumming, Tour to the West , reprinted in Thwaites ed., Early Western Travels , IV, 336.]
— from American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime by Ulrich Bonnell Phillips
Like a glass—joy, sorrow, pleasure, mirth, were reflected in the eloquent eyes and mobile lips.
— from Only One Love; or, Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
In other words, they believe that [Pg 414] bank notes are good for about the same reason that they believe the sun will rise in the east every twenty-four hours, and do not bother themselves about reasons.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
For a haze was rising into the effulgent expanse of color, and the sun’s rays, striking it, wrought their magic upon it.
— from 'Drag' Harlan by Charles Alden Seltzer
BIBLE EVENING Here is a well-known alphabet of Scripture proper names, which may be utilized at a social by ranking the members on two sides, and reading these lines one at a time, in the same way that a spelling-bee is carried on: A was a monarch who reigned in the East (Esth.
— from Bright Ideas for Entertaining by Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs.
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