"His whole power was in his numbers."
The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro Government by James S. Pike
"His whole power was in his numbers."
The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro Government by James S. Pike
Philip, not averse to such assistance, got his own face into shadow.
"In the company of the poet and the scholar he felt himself in a new position, almost, indeed in possession of a new legitimacy."
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
"When we landed we watched the discharging of the graceful three-master which we have observed from the other quay."
- An Encounter by Joyce
Wax doll!
- The Golem (Meyrink)
True, there were winters when three or four of her two dozen little boarders died.
On the morning of the 23rd I took the train from Zurich to Lausanne.
The daring amphibious landing at Incheon of forty thousand US troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur in September reversed the Communist gains.
"Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?"
- Pride and Prejudice
That was true too; but kings who personify an idea should not, cannot, fall below a certain level for generations; if they do, my dear brother-in-law, the idea suffers too.
Female slaves, the wives of metics and foreigners, concubines, and courtesans were all excluded from the festival.
I almost forgot about this topic! :eek: My book took so long this time...
Anyway...
'He was a swimmer, and during the competitive season, he shaved every hair off his his body so he was smooth as plastic.'
(The Jane Austen Book Club, 2004)
Prooving a very funny read now I have read all of Austen.
"Figure 1.14 Complex search terms in a search engine." - How to pass Standard Grade Computing
Technicaly this was the second book because the first didn't have a fourth sentence.
In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
I lay in my basket, and my mother lay in her bed; but Betsey Trotwood Copperfield was forever in the land of dreams and shadows, the tremendous region whence I had so lately travelled; and the light upon the window of our room shone out upon the earthly bourne of all such travellers, and the mound above the ashes and the dust that once was he, without whom I had never been.