A titular see in Africa Proconsularis. The city was founded by Tyrian colonists at the mouth of the Bagradas River in the vicinity of rich mines, 1110 B.C. or 287 years before Carthage. It had two harbours, and during the Punic Wars was the ally rather than the vassal of Carthage. In 212 B.C., it was seized and plundered by the Roman, Ottacilius.

— Siméon Vailhé
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Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,
Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
To me a painted paroquet
Hath been--a most familiar bird--
Taught me my alphabet to say--
To lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child--with a most knowing eye.

— Edgar Allan Poe
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We can pass the long green ranks of the Waverley Novels and Lockhart's "Life" which flanks them. Here is heavier metal in the four big grey volumes beyond. They are an old-fashioned large-print edition of Boswell's "Life of Johnson." I emphasize the large print, for that is the weak point of most of the cheap editions of English Classics which come now into the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Voyons quelles sont les conditions de la perception extérieure. Il y en a trois:

— Cours de philosophie
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{Second Old Woman}
As thou taught'st us, Red Cloud, when the
world was very young and thou wast the first man.

— Jack London
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Il n’y a prêtre dans le pays
(Aussi méchant) que celui-là, le prêtre Le Goff,

— François-Marie Luzel
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For the purpose of securing uniformity of style and form and for the better safeguarding of the texts of proclamations and Executive orders it is directed that:

— Herbert Hoover/Executive orders
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Must thou go, my glorious Chief,
Severed from thy faithful few?
Who can tell thy warrior's grief,
Maddening o'er that long adieu?
Woman's love, and Friendship's zeal,
Dear as both have been to me--
What are they to all I feel,
With a soldier's faith for thee?

— George Gordon, Lord Byron
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ELIZABETH had quite definitely put Dick out of her heart. On the evening of the day she learned he had come back and had not seen her, she deliberately killed her love and decently interred it. She burned her notes and his one letter and put away her ring, performing the rites not as rites but as a shameful business to be done with quickly. She tore his…

— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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. —VIII.Rapport de Du Paty à Mercier, 485. —Lettre de Dreyfus, 486. —Mercier décide de proposer la déportation de Dreyfus à l’île du Diable, 487. —IX.Demange sollicite une audience de Dupuy, 487. —Première entrevue de Dreyfus avec sa femme, 488. —X.Un vent de sauvagerie souffle sur Paris, 490. —Fureur des journaux, 492. —XI.Journée du 5 janvier, 493. —Dreyfus…

— Joseph Reinach
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