So, too, the infant man begins the heavy journey whose end we know too well, unshadowed by the gloom of our grim experience, shielded from our dreary sophistries by the baby wisdom brought from Heaven, which we can never learn. — from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne
great outburst of Greek enthusiasm suggests
The privileged use of the word Crusade, which we have ventured to make with reference to the first great outburst of Greek enthusiasm, suggests a grand distinction, which may not unreasonably claim some illustration, so deep does it reach in exhibiting the contrast between the character of the early annals of the Hebrews and those of every other early nation. — from The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Thomas De Quincey
guardians of Old Glory everything she
Now as she saw for the first time these men who stood as the guardians of "Old Glory," everything she had ever read of heroism and blood-stained battle-fields and glorious dying, came back to her in a flood of enthusiasm which nearly lifted her to her feet. — from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
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