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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...me the garrets, was in reality the drawing-room; in which drawing-room the box was the chief ottoman or sofa; whilst it appeared that the inside which... ...y gorgeous; and, partly on that consideration, but partly also because the box offered the most elevated seat, was nearest to the moon, and undeniably... ...oon, and undeniably went foremost, it was resolved by acclamation that the box was the imperial throne, and, for the scoundrel who drove,—he might sit... ...e from English pens. Grafton, a chronicler, but little read, being a stiff-necked John Bull, thought fit to say that no wonder Joanna should be a virg... ...placed a base, after the manner of a shoe to the foot; they also added vo- lutes to its capital, like graceful curling hair hanging on each side, and ...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...e that streamed in, awestruck, to gaze at the hole in the side of the ugly box of bricks before the great altar. Guzman Bento of cruel memory had put ... ...y into the unflinch- ing eyes of Charles Gould, who, remembering the large box full of his father’s letters, put the accumu- lated scorn and bitternes... ...tiff seat and impas- sive face, rising and falling rhythmically on an ewe- necked silver-bitted black brute with a hammer head. The sleepy people in t... ...here from the Sulaco barracks for the purpose of firing the regulation sa- lutes for the President-Dictator and the War Minis- ter. As the mail-boat h... ...very old truth.” Decoud spoke in French, perhaps because of Ignacio on the box above him; the old coachman, with his broad back filling a short, silve... ...abitually and severely beaten as a boy on one of these feluccas by a short-necked, shaven Genoese, with a deliberate and distrustful manner, who (he f...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...egated with numerous red specks announcing future roses. In the chamber lighted by this window was a square table, covered with an old large-flowered ... ...om of parmesan too little. His joy was at its height on that day when called upon to share the secret of Cropoli the younger, and to paint the famous ... ... The first thing D’Artagnan perceived after the fine trees, the May sun gilding the sides of the green hills, the long rows of feather-topped trees wh... ...nd signified absolutely nothing; nearer, it was a hogshead muffled in gold-bound green cloth; when close, it was a man, or rather a poussa, the interi... ...rtiers, and zealous friends. Great numbers of the inhabitants of Havre, having embarked in fishing-cobles and boats of every description, set off to m...

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Don Quixote

By: Miquel de Cervantes

...shed purses in case of emergency, and likewise carried shirts and a little box of ointment to cure the wounds they received. For in those plains and d... ...me other fine material, and a necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an instant she so arrayed herself that she looked li... ...d not produced an old physician for him who had in his possession a leaden box, which, according to his account, had been discovered among the crumbli... ...those 575 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. troughs are as bad as narrow thin-necked jars to him; take my advice and leave him alone, for neither he nor ... ...ess and Don Quixote the music of the clarions ceased, and then that of the lutes and harps on the car, and the figure in the robe rose up, and flingin...

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The Holy Bible

By: Various

...f Egypt. 9 And again the Lord said to Moses: I see that this people is sti necked: 10 Let me alone, that my wrath may be kin- dled against them, and t... ...ith milk and honey. For I will not go up with thee, because thou art a sti necked people; lest I destroy thee in the way. 4 And the people hearing the... ... And the Lord said to Moses: Say to the children of Israel: Thou art a sti necked people, once I shall come up in the midst of thee, and shall destroy... ...sels of gold, which you have paid him for sin, you shall put into a little box at the side thereof: and send it away, that it may go. 9 And you shall ... ...ves at home. 11 And they laid the ark of God upon the cart, and the little box that had in it the golden mice, and the likeness of the emerods. 12 And... ...t to the Lord. 15 And the Levites took down the ark of God, and the little box that was at the side of it, wherein were the vessels of gold, and they ... ...ed before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of wood, on harps and lutes and timbrels and cornets and cymbals. 6 And when they came to the oo... ...of Machabees the same was it dedicated anew with canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals. 55 And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...e better by those means to conceal his divine knowledge. Now, opening this box you would have found within it a heavenly and inestimable drug, a more ... ...Then shall you find that it containeth things of far higher value than the box did promise; that is to say, that the subject thereof is not so foolish... ...ick. At the relapse. At jack and the box. At jog breech, or prick him for-ward. At the queens. At ... ...e bigots, hypocrites, Externally devoted apes, base snites, Puffed-up, wry-necked beasts, worse than the Huns, Or Ostrogoths, forerunners of baboons: ... ...new against sinew, and spondyle against spondyle, that he might not be wry-necked—for such people he mortally hated. This done, he gave it round about... ...n round, whirl about, shake the head, and play the part of one that is wry-necked. Semblably Titus Livius writeth that, in the solemnization time of t... ...re agreeable to my ears than the curious warbling and musical quavering of lutes, theorbos, viols, rebecs, and violins. He gave me a lusty rapping thw...

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