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Updated: May 27, 2025

There was, indeed, a season of quiet grief; it was the lull of the fiery elements. A few weeks revived the former tempests, and so at variance did they seem with chastisement sanctified, that Frado felt them to be unbear- able. She determined to flee. But where? Who would take her? Mrs. B. had always repre- sented her ugly. Perhaps every one thought her so. Then no one would take her.

Harriet E. Wilson - Our nig, or, sketches from the life of a free black, in a two-story white house, North : Showing that slavery's shadows fall even there

The man who is now looked out to be our new representative, his very best friends do not speak of any qualification that he possesses, to make him worthy of that honourable situation; they only tell us of his uncle's long purse! therefore, in good truth, we may as well be repre- sented by his uncle's old three-corner'd hat.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2

While utterly deficient in constructive power, his destructive force was great indeed, and in this campaign it was applied, as it was not always applied, for the advantage of the country. The other great speaker in the campaign was General James A. Garfield, then a member of the House of Repre- sentatives.

Andrew Dickson White - Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1

Lund has brought forward weighty reasons for his theory that the central plateau of Brazil was already a country when the rest of the continent was still submerged or at least repre. sented merely by a few small islets.

marquis de Jean-François-Albert du Pouget Nadaillac - Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples

Travellers for the variety TOURIST had hardly developed into a distinct species at this date some- times said in passing, when they cast their eyes up to the sign-bearing tree, that artists were fond of repre- senting the signboard hanging thus, but that they themselves had never before noticed so perfect an instance in actual working order.

Thomas Hardy - Far from the Madding Crowd

All they saw of the universe was, in front of them, a place faintly luminous near their feet, but fading in six yards to the darkness of a dungeon. This repre- sented the bright white road of the day time. It had no end. Coleman had thought that he could tell from the very feel of the air some of the landmarks of his daytime journey, but he had now no sense of location at all.

Stephen Crane - Active Service