For the next few days, free-fall would be a rare and blesséd thing.
Fallen is Patroklos," he cried, "and Greeks and Trojans are fighting around his body.
The fall of Carthage, and the consequent elevation of Rome, is the second.
45:011:012 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
The fall of the western empire is the third great revolution in the affairs of mankind, of which ancient history has preserved any distinct or circumstantial account.
And the fall of each Woonyak is a great event—a renewal of our story and our people.
Snow falls, and is white; the falling is a process, the whiteness is not.
"Conjuror Fall, t'other side of Casterbridge, that they used to call 'Wide-O', was a very good man when I was a boy," said Jonathan Kail.
He had chosen instead to storm those inner citadels of wrath and egotism whose fall is the height of a man.
And the fall of each Woonyak is a great event—a renewal of our story and our people.
The pantaloons which I now wear were woven in a farmer’s family,—thank Heaven there is so much virtue still in man; for I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer;—and in a new country, fuel is an encumbrance.
Almighty God, that saved all mankind,Have on Constance and on her child some mind, That fallen is in heathen hand eftsoon again *In point to spill,* as I shall tell you soon!
The fall of the Greek republics, and of the Persian empire was the effect of the irresistible superiority which a standing army has over every other sort of militia.