The slanderers were not deterred by the consideration that the Jewish Passover had taken place very much earlier than the running away of Egorka from his mother.
The sisters went to their rooms somewhat earlier than usual.
More than once Trirodov returned to the earlier circumstances of their acquaintance and to their recent meeting at Skorodozh.
They told us a steamer had started two or three hours earlier with tourists on board to see the midnight sun.
We had all sent our servants and baggage by an earlier train, as it had been suggested to us.
We had sent the servants by an earlier train, which was convenient, as they had time to unpack and have everything ready for us.
We went to ride as usual Thursday morning, but rather earlierthan usual (9.
The earlier history of this relic is unknown, and is as obscure as that of the other 'Relics of the Holy Blood' which are to be found in various places.
And as the address to the sun (Paradise Lost, iv, 32) was composed at the earlier of these dates, it appears that he had already formulated even the rhythm and cadence of the poem that was to be.
It does not assist the conception of the cosmical system which we accept in the earlier books.
He was ready for college at sixteen, not earlier than the usual age at that period.
It is true there are many phrases or images in Paradise Lost taken from earlier writers--taken, not stolen, for the borrowing is done openly.
His ripened judgment only approved a selection made in earlier years, and in days full of hope.
In the earlier poems Milton's muse has sung in the tones of the age that is passing away; the poet is, except in his austere chastity, a cavalier.
Nay, the position of our earlier writers has been improved by the mere spread of the English language over a wider area.
If reality suggested any trait, physical or mental, of the Eve, it would certainly have been some woman seen in earlier years.
And at an earlier age his poems, candidly pure from the lascivious inuendoes of his contemporaries, have preserved the record of the rapid impression of the momentary passage of beauty upon his susceptible mind.
By this tender fiction, the survivors bind themselves to a sedater sorrow, and employ the intervention of the imagination in order that the reason may speak her own language earlier than she would otherwise have been enabled to do.
As a man of letters I have to regret that this most interesting tour was not made by me earlier in life, as I might have turned the notices it has supplied me with to more account than I now expect to do.
This and the other poems addressed to the same flower were composed at Town-End, Grasmere, during the earlier part of our residence there.
The earlier proceedings of the French Revolution no doubt infused health into the country; something of which survives to this day: but let not the now-existing Tyranny have the credit of it.
His days were now spent as in the earlier period of their acquaintance, with the exception of those painful returns to home, which had once been a source to him of so much gloom and unhappiness.
They had stopped in theearlier part of this conversation on a little plot of turf surrounded by shrubs; Cadurcis walked up and down this area with angry steps, occasionally glancing at Venetia with a look of mortification and displeasure.
We must do our hunting in time earlier than the first pyramid, earlier than the first group of farmers who settled by the Tigris River.
Ross had been left under guard where he could watch it all, a refinement of torture which he would earlier have believed too subtle for Ennar.
What followed absorbed Ross as completely as the earlier scene of the wolf killing.
No, you will have to go back maybe several thousand years earlier and then hunt your bear with a flint-tipped spear in your hand if you are fool enough to try it.
The country is forested, but not so heavily as it was in an earlier period.
If in their excavations the Reds came across the remains of a spaceship, remains well enough preserved for them to realize what they had discovered, they might start questing back in time to find a better one intact at an earlier date.
The river was swollen with spring floods which were only now beginning to subside, but two days earlier they had noticed a sandbar at one spot.
They had reached this point--abandoned no earlierthan this morning, judging by the life remaining in the coals--and put up the signal.
The Honorable Mrs. Avenel belonged to families unquestionably noble both by her own descent and by her first marriage; and if poverty had kept her down in her earlier career, she now, at least, did not want wealth to back her pretensions.
But, when he heard of our proposal to give the kid to Cousin Jok, he bargained that we should get up half an hour earlier every morning and thereupon made the dear little beast over to us.
The journalist's earlier letters treat of these things with humorous realism, and we respect his pluck for putting up with them.
Subsequently they were collected by Charles himself, and formed a supplement to theearlier "Specimens.
To speak of my own impressions, Munden did not affect me much in some of his earlier performances; for then he depended on the play.
Amongst these are some of the best of Lamb's earlier writings--namely, the paper on Hogarth and that on the Tragedies of Shakespeare.
His sternly moulded lips twitched with some strange passing reminiscence of earlier years, but the emotion vanished, and, pressing her hands gently, he turned and went down the walk leading to the gate.
The pressure of poverty had been sorely felt by the young girl during these past months, but was as nothing to the yearning for the tender love and care and happy trustfulness that had been the crowning blessing of earlier days.
The only interest attaching to these fragments is that, like the didactic works of Accius, they testify to the crude critical effort that accompanied the creative activity of the earlier Roman poets.
It is, indeed, impossible to claim for Roman poetry the unborrowed glory or the varied inspiration of the earlier art of Greece.
Again, the expression of the feelings both of love and friendship in the earlier poems of Catullus--written about the year 61 or 60 B.
This circumstance explains much of the difference in tone between the literature of that age and both the earlier and later literature.
His ear had not been passively trained by the musical echoes transmitted by earlier minstrels; nor did he inherit the fluency and richness of expression which a long line of poets hands on to their successors.
The fragments of the earlier tragic and epic poets indicate the predominance of the gravity and the masculine strength inherent in the Roman temper, almost to the exclusion of the other element.
The great poets of earlier times were too deeply penetrated by the thought of the mystery and the grandeur in human life, to dwell much on the spectacle of the outward world.
Catullus does not care to present the gem of his own thought in an alien setting, as Horace, in his earlier Odes at least, has often done.
But though there were no burials, the congregation have persistently refused to sell this plot, just as they have the earlier plots, the remains of which are off Chatham Square and in Eleventh Street, near Sixth Avenue.
He called the place Vauxhall, thereby causing some confusion to historians, who often confound this Garden with the earlier one of the same name.
The Madison Square Presbyterian Church, at Madison Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street, was commenced in 1853, theearlier church of the congregation having been in Broome Street.
Dumas has done me the honor to appropriate one of the fanciful conceptions of my earlier days.
It was the village doctor; a man of some fifty years, whom, at an earlier period of his life, we introduced as paying a professional visit to Ethan Brand during the latter's supposed insanity.
In the morning, he rises earlier than usual, and sets himself to consider what he really means to do.
Earlier in the year Marjorie would have grieved in secret over this frostiness, but Marjorie had hardened her gentle heart and now fancied that Mary's movements were of small concern to her.
For instance, considerations of personal friendship having in earlier days often led him to unwise decisions, a like cause may be said to have brought on his coming disaster.
The arch-republican of Napoleon's earlier career had given his adhesion to the new government, and had been retained in office.
This is not excused by the fact that his movement of concentration was completed somewhat earlier than Bluecher's.
The rising for Napoleon was comparable only to that which earlieryears had seen in the Vendee on behalf of the Bourbons.
It cannot be proven, but the charge is made, that far earlier he had ceased to reckon with facts and had begun to juggle with unrealities.
In the earlier impression, which we call Q₁, the whole of Act III.
In many places the readings coincide with those of the earlier Quartos, which were probably consulted by the corrector.
For all his earlier hunger he ate very little, and soon after he tiptoed up the stairs again to David's room.
And by that strange faculty by which an idea often becomes stronger in memory than in its original production he found himself in the grip of a passion infinitely more terrible than hisearlier one for her.
The loss of memory of the period immediately preceding was complete, but of course, gradually, the cloud began to lift over the earlier periods.
Nevertheless for a time he held to his earlier conviction, even fought for it.
But underlying all his surface thinking was still the need of flight, and he was continually confusing it with the earlier one.
Earlier in the evening there had been a consultation; David had suffered a light stroke, but there was no paralysis, and the prognosis was good.
I'd been told by the corral boss earlier in the evening that he'd seen a man skulking around the house.
One moment he was looking about for the snow of that earlier escape, and the next he would remember, and the sense of panic would leave him.
The reproduction of the conditions of the earlier flight, the familiar associations of the trail, must have helped rather than hindered his fixation in the past.
The wise course is to look out for one of the earlier editions with copper plates that are constantly to be found on second-hand bookstalls.
Speaking of Captain Marryat and books for boys, a quite minor kind of literature perhaps some of you may think, I must recall that an earlier and still more famous story for children had an East Anglian origin.
Johnson reach anything in the shape of real inspiration in his many poems, {15} although it must be admitted that earlier generations admired them greatly.
Mr. Reade has clearly been able to spare no expense, with the result that here are many interesting facts corrective of earlier students.
Were they poets at all--those earlier eighteenth century writers?
Even to name novels by Charles Kingsley and Bulwer Lytton in this select hundred was to demonstrate to men of this generation that Lord Avebury being of an earlier one had a bias in favour of the books that we are all outgrowing.
He mentions various interesting details not included in the earlier account, and narrates occurrences after the conquest of Manila.
Interesting comparisons may be made between the conquests by the Spaniards in the Philippines and those made at an earlier period in New Spain.
Therefore during the two years that we have spent on this island, they have come in greater numbers each year, and with more ships; and they come earlier than they used to, so that their trade is assured to us.
But the shyness that had stood so in my way during the earlier half of my school days had now, I know not why, returned upon me, hampering me at every turn.
Once we were nearly caught, Mrs. O'Kelly returning from a district visitors' committee meeting earlier than was expected.
I would rise an hour earlierin the morning to practise throwing at broomsticks set up in waste places.
Mormonism believes earlier Christian traditions, such as the Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant reform faiths, are apostasies and that Joseph Smith's revelation of the Book of Mormon is a restoration of true Christianity.
He was suffering from one of those acute spasms of home-sickness, which invariably racked him in the earlier Summer months.
He had remarked on itearlier in the morning in the Servants' Hall.
I seem to remember an animated session at the Empire earlier in the evening, which may have impaired my self-control.
Then it surprised him that, after the talk they had only a few hours earlier in that very room, Gentleman Jack should have dared to risk this raid.
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