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The printer was amused with the blunt sagacity of remark and novelty of incident that characterised Gines's conversation. He was secretly pleased, in spite of all his sober and church-going prejudices, that he was brother to a man of so much ingenuity and fortitude.
No other man was born, or will ever be born, that gave or will give away so much wealth as was given away by the king of the Angas in the seven sacrifices he performed, each of which was characterised by the consecration of the Soma.
In his quaint account of that mysterious land, Herodotus always spoke of it as distinct from Libya; and this aloofness has characterised Lower Egypt almost down to the present age, when the events which we are about to consider brought it into close touch with the equatorial regions. The story of the infiltration of British influence into Egypt is one of the most curious in all history.
The colonists whom Ovando had brought out had come very much in the spirit that in our own day characterised the rush to the north-western goldfields of America.
The street itself narrow and unpaved was in places rendered almost impassable by the piles of constructor's materials and rubbish that encumbered it at every step debris or future requisites of the gigantic and numberless building operations which the mad Emperor pursued with that feverish energy and maniacal restlessness that characterised his every action.
His interest in Ireland and its people led him to write prose works, including English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds ; and to criticism he contributed Essays chiefly on Poetry . His last work was his Recollections . His poetry is characterised by lofty ethical tone, imaginative power, and grave stateliness of expression.
An excessive tenderness of conscience had characterised his confessions to Père Blouyn, his spiritual director-in-ordinary.
'All my life long, 'the Angel which redeemed me from all evil, he said on his death-bed. If he meant what he said when he spoke to Pharaoh, and characterised his life thus, he was wrong. He was possibly in a melancholy mood. Very naturally, the unfamiliar splendours of a court dazzled and bewildered the old man, accustomed to a quiet shepherd life down at Hebron.
Such sorrow worketh death. Such fierce hatred, joined with stiff-necked obstinacy, has characterised the Jew ever since Jerusalem fell. 'If God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee. Israel was first, and has become last.
This led me involuntarily to recollect that the intercourse between Miss Vernon and the priest was marked with something like the same mystery which characterised her communications with Rashleigh.
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