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“Dum tacet indoctus, poterit cordatus haberi; Is morbos animi namque tacendo tegit.”
— from Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems by Ben Jonson
Grace had withheld from her the fact that General Winans was coming home in May, and Norah's secret thoughts and misgivings on this subject were many.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.
After what you have just said before Lady Clavering you will do well not to come here in my absence." "Neither in your absence nor in your presence." "As to the latter you may do as you please.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
But his refusals, his counsels, his implied menaces availed nought against the will of Cæsar.
— from Cleopatra: A Study by Henry Houssaye
Of these victims the most eminent was Tschaikovsky, the composer, a man of genius and a most charming character, to whom Mr. Andrew Carnegie had introduced me at New York.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White
The whole central section could hang in midair and not buckle or drop.
— from Out of the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
And already the composer had in mind a new work to be called "The Death of Siegfried."
— from The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower
I stood for a moment silent; then, flying to her, I caught her in my arms, no longer resisting, and softly told her she must give me then herself.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 by Henry Fielding
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