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The clergy exalted anew the merits and powerful intercession of Becket; and Henry, instead of opposing this superstition, plumed himself on the new friendship of the saint, and propagated an opinion which was so favourable to his interests i. FN i Hoveden, p. 539.
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We'd like some drink--the Contrack doesn't begin yet, Peachey, so you needn't look--but what we really want is advice.
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it has come to be my only food: And, as a lover of the Indian weed Steals to a self-indulgent solitude, To draw the dreamy sweetness from its root, So from the strong blithe world of valorous deed I steal away to suck this singing weed; And while the morning gathers up its strength, And while the noonday runneth on in might, Until the shadows and the evening light Come and awake me with a fear at length, Prone in some hankering covert hid away, Fain am I still my piping to prolong, And for the largess of a bounteous day Dare pay my maker with a paltry song.
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On the 10th, a great battle will be fought, which will begin at four of the clock in the afternoon, and last until nine at night, with great obstinacy, but no very decisive event.
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Onistah's heart swelled with an emotion that was more than vanity.
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Religion is the force that relates action to life.
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So long as we remained in France his humour was like this, delicate and expansive, but an accidental allusion led us across the Channel when he changed.
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My friend, how long since did you sell that bag?
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He rescued Fidelia, at the age of twelve, from the hands of Villard, a villain who wanted to abuse her, and taking her to his own home, fell in love with her, and in due time married her.
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I came to stay, my lord, to be his wife, His serving-maid, his mistress,--what he would; I told him that I loved him beyond men; I pleaded and entreated him, in vain, To keep and hold me evermore.
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On the evening of the day when she was buried, a rich man went, not to Pilate, but to the cure of the place.
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Gloom deepened and had no light to relieve it, men supped full of horrors--there was no slackening of the tension, no concession to overwrought nerves, no resting-place for the overwrought soul.
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"I carried it around in my wallet, and then when I was in New Zealand I made the box out of Kauri wood."
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It must have been her hand that had struck down the old man, yet she had made no effort to release Turan from his prison.
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The time of our visit was in the dry season, which lasts from October till April, and alternates with the wet one, from May till September.
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Those who shall live when we are dead may tell their children, perhaps, how, out of anguish and darkness such as the world seldom has borne, the enduring morning evolved of the true world and the true man.
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Ye, my beloved sisters, shall have no beast but one cat... Ye shall be cropped four times in the year for to lighten your head... Of idleness ariseth much temptation of the flesh... Iron that lieth still soon gathereth rust.
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He then had recourse to the genie, who gave him another set of plates, and thus they lived for many years.
