"Non, non!" chorused all three. "You are as young as ever, papa!"
"Sacre blue! Do you name me a liar, my children? Attend, Pierre!"
"Yes, papa."
"I have work for you this night."
The elder son's forehead wrinkled. "But the work, it is over. Our tasks are completed. The workers have been checked, the last cart is in the shed——"
"This is a special task, one which…
— Clifford Ball
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The unhappy exile, whom his fates confine
To the bleak coast of some unfriendly isle,
Cold, barren, desart, where no harvests smile,
But thirst and hunger on the rocks repine;
When, from some promontory's fearful brow,
Sun after sun he hopeless sees decline
In the broad shipless sea—perhaps may know
Such heartless pain, such blank despair as mine;
And, if a…
— Charlotte Smith
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Bosnia and Herzegovina form the north-western corner of the Balkan Peninsula. Taking the two together as one territory, Bosnia-Herzegovina is bounded on the north by the Austrian provinces and titular kingdoms of Croatia and Slavonia, on the east by the Kingdom of Servia, on the south by one of the nominal provinces of Turkey, the principality of Montenegro, and the…
— Karl Klaar
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C’est chose curieuse qu’une soirée de Palerme, au bord de la mer
murmurante, sous les flots du soleil d’été, au milieu de cette
population grimaçante et mobile, plus originale mille fois et moins
connue que la race classique des abbés, des courtisanes et des lazzaroni
napolitains. Grâce aux romans et à la scène, Naples est vieux pour moi:on me l’a…
— Philarète Chasles
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Adverse Piece. A Piece of the opposite color.
Attack. This term may be explained, in several different ways:
(1) Any force commanding a square occupied by an adverse force is said to attack the latter, though attack may exist without power to capture.
(2) A combined movement of two or more Pieces tending to compel the adversary to abandon some particular…
— Charlotte Boardman Rogers
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mult li peise, se bien n’est faite.
OĂ«z, seignur, que dit Marie,
ki en sun tens pas ne s’oblie.
5 Celui deivent la genz loër,
ki en bien fait de sei parler.
Mais quant il a en un paĂŻs
hume ne femme de grant pris,
cil ki de sun bien unt envie
10 sovent en diënt vileinie.
Sun pris li vuelent abaissier :
pur ceo comencent le mestier
del…
— Marie de France
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WHOEVER has an ambition to be heard in a crowd, must press, and squeeze, and thrust, and climb, with indefatigable pains, till he has exalted himself to a certain degree of altitude above them. Now, in all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough, but how to reach it is the…
— Jonathan Swift
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…J’ignore combien durera la législation actuelle sur la presse et la signature obligatoire. En attendant voilà , pour nos amis, une bonne occasion de se faire dans la presse une honorable renommée. J’ai remarqué avec plaisir des articles de Garnier, bien traités, bien soignés, et où l’on voit qu’il ne veut pas compromettre l’honneur du professorat. Je l’engage…
— Frédéric Bastiat
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IT might have been said of us that our city was the iron pot, we in it the broth, and the edict of Egidio Mazzaleone the stick with which to stir the broth. It was a fine, big stick with a point at the end of it, as we found out, though at first sight it had a harmless look beside the naked sword which was what we had expected.
— Mary Heaton Vorse
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Frater erat: fraterna peto. Quid sanguine cretus
Sisyphio, furtisque et fraude simillimus illi,
Inserit Æacides alienæ nomina gentis?
— Joseph Cabaret-Dupaty
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