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An unnatural silence and desertion reigned there. Only one soul was to be seen, and that was Madame Defarge-who leaned against the door-post, knitting, and saw nothing. The prisoner had got into a coach, and his daughter had followed him, when Mr. Lorry's feet were arrested on the ...
“at one point, the group had disbanded. she had left the group at this point and we didn’t know what we were going to do. she calls me and says, ‘listen, i’m going to come down to the studio and i’m going to lay down a reference for you guys, a hook. i give you pe...
the golden age of great emperors, like Trajan, Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius, more than two centuries earlier. Its cosmopolitan population had shrunk from one million to 600,000, and lawlessness reigned in many streets; the gladiatorial spectacles in the Colosseum were shut down in 404, leaving ...
In England, so long as the Stuarts reigned, the confederation of the Comprachicos was (for motives of which we have already given you a glimpse) to a certain extent protected. James II., a devout man, who persecuted the Jews and trampled out the gipsies, was a good prince to the ...
He soon arrived in the town where the mist-veiled queenreigned34in her palace, but the whole city had changed, and he could scarcely find his way through the streets. In the palace itself all was still, and he wandered through the rooms without meeting anyone to stop him. At last he ...
14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sins were not like the transgression of Adam, who was a type of the one who was to come. Even the righteous figures of the Old Testament were still trapped by death. With the exceptions of Elijah and Enoch, they were wai...
Vatican City)‚ reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church from 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the second-longest serving Pope in history and the first non-Italian since 1523. A very charismatic figure‚ John Paul II was acclaimed as one of the most influential leaders of the ...
I opened the glass-door in the breakfastroom: the shrubbery was quite still: the black frost reigned, unbroken by sun or breeze, through the grounds. I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestered;...