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Who has but once dined his friends, has tasted what it is to be Caesar.
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
Brushing the locks aside, he now gazed upon the death-like beauty of the face, and caught immortal sadness from it. She seemed as dead;
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
No, I shall not, I will not implore thee.—Oh, my brother, my dear, dear Pierre,—help me, fly to me;
Herman Melville • Pierre; or The Ambiguities
Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, like the coast, when discovered. Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that we would find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind?
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Note: * If Mr. Harbison had owned a slave named Bull, Tom would have spoken of him as “Harbison’s Bull,” but a son or a dog of that name was “Bull Harbison.
Mark Twain • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me? The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run. Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush! Naught's an obstacle, naught's an angle to the iron way!
Herman Melville • Moby Dick: or, the White Whale
(Know once for all, avow'd on purpose, wherever are men like me, are our lusty lurking masculine poems,)
Walt Whitman • Leaves of Grass
La foule, étonnée, se rassemble sur la plage de Séville pour (écrit Oviédo) « admirer ce navire glorieux, dont le voyage représente le plus grand exploit qui ait jamais été réalisé depuis la création du monde ». Elle regarde les dix-huit hommes
Stefan Zweig • Magellan (French Edition)
Truman Hunt was usually cool under pressure. But today was different. After more than six months of planning, it was almost time for the show to begin. He could hardly wait. The Igorrotes were going to be the talk of Coney Island. No, of the nation. Before they left the train, he gave them a pep talk. Truman was an enthusiastic, if sometimes inexac
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