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...f the citadel, crowding against one another, a group of houses stood within the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fortress, the walls of which were about one hundred and twenty cubits high, having numerous angles and ornamental towers that stood out like jewels in thi...

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... the circle of a wall, whose outlines undulated with the unevenness of the soil. A zigzag road, cutting through the rocks, joined the city to the fort...

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...hey had never disputed about it nor analyzed it. Such a nature is a virgin soil, conscience has not been tampered with, feeling is deep and strong; re...

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...and Change of Dynasty turning up only a new stratum of dry rubbish, and no soil yet coming to view,—may it not be good to protest against such a Life,... ...ain a name. Mountainous Auvergne re- elects her Romme: hardy tiller of the soil, once Mathemati- cal Professor; who, unconscious, carries in petto a r... ...uit- ism, that the whole race of Bourbons should be marched forth from the soil of France; this Prince Egalite to bring up the rear. Motions which mig... ...count of the faith that is in him. Persons Suspect had as well depart this soil of Liberty! And yet departure too is bad: all Emigrants are declared T... ...et Aristocrats, Federal- ists, Monsieurs vanish, and all men tremble: ‘The Soil of Liberty shall be purged, ’—with a vengeance! Neither hitherto has t... ...tte and her little Son,—wherewith Hu- man Speech had better not further be soiled. She has an- swered Hebert; a Juryman begs to observe that she has n... ...d of Patriotism, smiting Cimmeria back to its own borders, from the sacred soil. In fact the Government is what we can call Revolutionary; and some me... ...hymns,’ forces Austria be- hind the Sambre again; has hopes of purging the soil of Liberty. With hard wrestling, with artillerying and ca-ira- ing, it... ...er Fleurus in the Netherlands, where General Jourdan, having now swept the soil of Liberty, and ad- vanced thus far, is just about to fight, and sweep...

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...nd firm by honor: We turn not back the silks upon the merchant, When we have soil’d them, nor the remainder viands We do not throw in unrespective sie... ...y to myself The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; But I would have the soil of her fair rape Wiped off, in honorable keeping her. What treason w... ...e merits well to have her, that doth seek her, Not making any scruple of her soilure, With such a hell of pain and world of charge, And you as well to... ...ather think this not Cressid. ULYSSES: What hath she done, prince, that can soil our mothers? TROILUS: Nothing at all, unless that this were she. TH...

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...tten. The sentiments are natu- ral, the imagery is apt and redolent of the soil, the music of the verse appeals to the dullest ear. It has no smell of... ... raw young squire, ‘reeking,’ Beau Beamish writes of him, ‘one half of the soil, and t’ other half of the town,’ had involved Chloe in his familiar re...

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...ntle Lady Arbella faded away and died. They dug a grave for her in the new soil, where the roots of the pine trees impeded their spades; and when her ... ...ish would not have been so pitiless as to deny them graves in their native soil. The dead were happy; for they were not exiles! While they thus stood ... ...w lie buried around that ancient fortress. When the plough passes over the soil, it turns up here and there a mouldering bone. Up to this period, none... ...aceful thoughts and gentle spirit. “His life blood streamed to baptize the soil which he had added to the do minion of Britain. His dying breath was ...

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... cried Alice. ‘I have learnt to breathe freer since I have been on English soil,’ said Esclairmonde, smiling; ‘but where I may rest at last, Heaven on... ...is lineage of a good house in Gloucestershire.’ ‘More shame that he should soil his hands with trade!’ said the Queen. ‘See what you say when he has c... ...r work! The fel- lows, whence came they?’ Favoured by the fog and the soft soil of the meadows, a considerable body of the enemy were stealing on the ... ...her meet the King thus, for it is my fitting garb. Only I would remove the soil of the journey, and then take my sister by the hand.’ For this there w... ...thumberland; and James, flinging himself from his horse, kissed his native soil, and gave thanks aloud to God, ere he stood up and received the homage...

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...- nently practical mind; and had grown there, in that rich- est putrescent soil, into the most original plan of action ever submitted to a People. Not... ...autiful to see! The snowy linen and delicate pantaloon alternates with the soiled check- shirt and bushel-breeches; for both have cast their coats, an... ...urpose is, To have this suspicious Stronghold razed level with the general soil of the country. Remonstrance may be proffered, with zeal: but it avail... ...him not; thou canst 131 Thomas Carlyle not hate him! Shining through such soil and tarnish, and now victorious effulgent, and oftenest struggling ecl...

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...ed a fragment from the ruder agricultural past of our race, like a lump of soil among things of paper. He put his basket of vegetables very deliberate... ...ine, a peculiar deep coloured effect. He found too one day among a pile of soiled sixpenny books at Port Burdock, to which place he sometimes rode on ... ...the punt pole, and finally landed him, alarmed but abusive, in treacherous soil at the edge of a hay meadow about forty yards down stream, where he im...

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...said anything; except that they were nasty things, and I must not let them soil my trousers: end Uncle Robson was there too, and he laughed, and said ... ... dirty their clothes in that manner! Don’t you see how Miss Bloomfield has soiled her frock? and that Master Bloomfield’s socks are quite wet? and bot... ... like a thistle-seed borne on the wind to some strange nook of uncongenial soil, where it must lie long enough before it can take root and germinate, ...

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...re yet con- tented to face, for permission to live and die on their native soil. Nor did Janet forget the portents which had announced the departure o... ...ld, that the uncleanness of the place where you are deposited may somewhat soil the gaiety of her garments, concerning the preservation of which, you ...

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...k in men’s minds, in the shape of ideas which sanc- tioned the issues. The soil had been cleared, the seed sown, and now came the harvest. To his thin...

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... sitting. And he will remember that he is in the Eleele Sa, the “Forbidden Soil,” or Neutral Territory of the treaties; that the magistrate whom he ha... ...avenged: the arms of Mataafa were Nondum inexpiatis uncta cruoribus, Still soiled with the unexpiated blood of German sailors; and though the chief wa...

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...ould have preserved him. He took, therefore, measure of that proportion of soil which was now become adequate to all his future purposes, and he lay d...

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...e important, even in a statistical view; certain weeds mark poverty in the soil, fairies mark its solitude. As surely as the wolf retires before citie... ...ar grandeur of the Thames in the length of its course, or in the extent of soil which it drains: yet, if he had been so absurd, the American might hav... ...best compliments, that he has planted his throne for ever upon that virgin soil: henceforward claiming the jus dominii to the top of the at- mosphere ... ...ing, either aloft in the atmosphere, or in the shafts, or squatting on the soil, will be treated as trespassers—that is, decapitated by their very fai... ...t still keep himself warm; where slight shelter might serve; and where the soil, if not absolutely richer in reversionary wealth, was more easily cult... ...brings after itself no need of washing the hands.” No; moonshine as little soils the hands as it op- presses the stomach. Reader! we, as well as Pliny... ... to our former explanation) Providence has relieved the continuity of arid soil, which else disfigures that long dreary level. This happens to all; bu...

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...st blossom of reason is threatened with the loss of both its stalk and its soil: for, if the revolutionary tyrant should triumph, he would destroy all... ...st comparison to an intellect without any culture at all:—leaving the deep soils out of the com- parison, the shallow ones of the present day would in...

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...e knows, nor growth of man in grisly brute; But he, the flower at head and soil at root, Is miracle, guides he the brute to God. And that way seems he... ...gold necks bent for any zephyr’s kiss; When vine-roots daily down a rubble soil Drank fire of heaven athirst to swell the grape; When swelled the grap... ...st the one hope to repair. II. Sunshine might we have been unto seed under soil, or have scattered Seed to ascendant suns brighter than any that shone... ...Never have they, of a truth, come lifting my horses or oxen; Never in deep-soiled Phthia, the nurser of heroes, my harvests Ravaged, they; for between... ...ted upon a tall pine-tree, tallest of pines that on Ida Lustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether. There did he sit well-cloaked by t...

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...engers would profane the funereal sanctity of the spot in trampling on the soil so near his head.” You must not take this description, dearest Amelia,...

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...a town whither every man of energy—and they sprout like saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or home, and... ... delicacy is never met with but in those grand creatures, daughters of the soil, whose instinct it is to take blows without ever returning them; the b... ...with that of the Rue Froidmanteau. Thus, half sunken by the raising of the soil, these houses are also wrapped in the perpetual shadow cast by the lof... ...ern blast. Darkness, silence, an icy chill, and the cavernous depth of the soil combine to make these houses a kind of crypt, tombs of the living. As ... ...ke fairyland, one of those gardens that are created in a month with a made soil and transplanted shrubs, while the grass seems as if it must be made t... ...e Rue Vanneau and the Rue Saint-Dominique W enceslas had not got his boots soiled. “Here—here are five thousand francs Chanor has been so generous as ...

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...any other fear. No more conclusively genuine set of fighters ever trod the soil of England, or of any other land. Neither will we blame greatly that w... ... the Universe with its old mountains and streams, its stars above and kind soil beneath, is still there. The Duke of Weimar told his friends always, T...