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Plutarchs Lives Volume Two

By: Hugh Clough

...ch through several nations inhab- iting about Mount Caucasus. Of these the Albanians and Iberians were the two chiefest. The Iberians stretch out as f... ... Iberians stretch out as far as the Moschian mountains and the Pontus; the Albanians lie more eastwardly, and towards the Caspian Sea. These Al- bania... ...ea, presented great difficulties. News was also brought to Pompey that the Albanians had again revolted. This made him turn back, out of anger and det... ...that reach down to the Hyrcanian Sea, not immediately border- ing upon the Albanians, for the Gelae and the Leges lie be- twixt; and they keep company... ... the paid rhetoric master, and Achillas the Egyptian. For these, among the chamberlains and menial domestics, that made up the rest of the council, we... ...his new marriages and attachments, (the troubles that began in the women’s chambers spreading, so to say, to the whole king- dom,) raised various comp... ...ing. So that they seemed rather lodged in some temple, or some holy virgin chambers, where they enjoyed their privacy sacred and uninterrupted, than i... ...per. Leonidas also, he added, used to open and search the furniture of his chamber, and his wardrobe, to see if his mother had left him anything that ... ... her a most sumptuous funeral. Among the eunuchs who waited in the queen’s chamber, and were taken prisoners with the women, there was one Tireus, who...

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

...gling British Empire of Edward the Seventh—and Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Mr. Chamberlain. He did go on for a time honestly entertaining both these proje... ... tirely catastrophic a revulsion. He could as soon have be- come a croquet champion or the curate of Chexington church, lines of endeavour which for h... ... but blank, black, damnable ignorance. One fool stands up for the Catholic Albanians, another finds heroes in the Servians, another talks of Brave Lit... ... who packs a trunk, she rang up Sir Philip Easton. 30 30 30 30 30 The head chambermaid on the first floor of the Westwood Hotel in Danebury Street had... ...aced, slow speaking; the last man to behave violently or sur- prise a head chambermaid in any way. On the morning of his departure she was told by the... ... see that they are properly charged for on the bill…. Thank you.” The head chambermaid was left to consider the accidents. Benham’s things were all pa...

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Plutarchs Lives Volume One

By: Hugh Clough

...mple, mistresses, tributes cus- toms, a garrison a guard, and the jail the chamber, seems originally to have been Solon’s contrivance, who called can-... ...able to this is the law that the bride and bridegroom shall be shut into a chamber, and eat a quince together; and that the husband of an heiress shal... ...geable horse, it, as the comic poets say, — “ — got beyond all keeping in, Champing at Euboea, and among the islands leaping in.” The style of speakin... ... at Rome, much more splendid than his first; they looked upon him now as a champion who had learned to cope with his antagonist, and could now easily ... ...e and enter into their habits and ways of life, and change faster than the chameleon. One color, indeed, they say the chameleon cannot assume; it cann... ...bians came up from the sea be- yond Babylon; and from the Caspian sea, the Albanians and the Iberians their neighbors, and not a few of the free peopl...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

... man who, in the last generation, most of all won the public esteem as the champion of the Bible against Tom Paine, was privately known amongst us con... ...pon support from his clerical brethren, he stands forward as expositor and champion of views now prevailing amongst the elite of the English Church. S... ...to the same Sultzer, he remarks that—when we see the Papists such avenging champions of their own superstitious fables as not to falter in shedding in... ...ttempt to wrench this notion of a verbal inspiration from the hands of its champions by a reductio ad absurdum, viz., by showing the monstrous consequ... ...reviser, being too honorable to betray the individual delinquent, the Star Chamber fined the whole ‘chapel.’ Now, the copyists of MSS. were as certain... ...on establishment. Every man of these four thousand soldiers, chiefly brave Albanians—every man of this little army was basely, brutally, in the very s...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...when she had been told that there would be pineapple ice. Before the ices, champagne was served round. The band again struck up, the count and countes... ...nsidered it his duty to visit him and waited in the lofty antechamber ante cham- ber just as the architect, gardener, or Princess Mary did, till the p... ... of the third grade, which the Emperor was conferring on him. The Empress’ chamberlain in- vited him to see Her Majesty. The archduchess also wished t... ...ss, tipsy rage when a man does not know what he is saying. He saw that his championship of the doctor’s wife in her queer trap might expose him to wha... ...he animated hum of several conversations. At one end of the table, the old chamberlain was heard assuring an old baroness that he loved her passionate... ...ormed! It was not a matter of life but rather of death, as the saying is. ‘Albanians!’ and ‘devils!’ and ‘To Siberia!’” said Berg with a sagacious smi...

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