"Ara" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de ara en taute te thalatte, kai chelonai megintai, onper oun ta elytra orophoi ginontai kai gar esti kai mentekaideka pechon en cheloneion, hos hypoikein ouk oligous, kai tous helious pyroiestatous apostegei, kai skian asmetois parechei."—Lib. xvi. c. 17. AElian copied this statement literatim ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent
... passion for the lady I am about to name. Indeed I see many difficulties to be surmounted, not on the lady's part, as I hope, but on that of her father. I need only mention to you the princess Jehaun-ara, daughter of ...
— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous
... her trouble, Hilda now entered upon another pilgrimage among these altars and shrines. She climbed the hundred steps of the Ara Coeli; she trod the broad, silent nave of St. John Lateran; she stood in the Pantheon, under the round opening in the dome, through which the blue sunny sky still gazes down, as it used to gaze when there were Roman deities in the antique niches. She went into every church that ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... this great scene, greater than any nation has yet been called to act in, let us say to the agitated mind, be calm. Let us punish by instructing, rather than by revenge. Let us begin the new ara by a greatness of friendship, and hail the approach of ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... was chosen as one of the boys and girls who were to preach between Christmas and the New Year in the church of Ara Croeli, before the image of Jesus. I had no fear, and it seemed decided that I, of all children, gave most delight; but after me came a little girl of exquisitely delicate form, bright countenance, and so melodious a voice that even my mother, with all her ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various
... ethnology, which is too youthful a science to reveal a great deal, do not oppose the theory of all matured humanity, to wit, that the animal boy is the same in all ages and in all races, an Ishmaelite, and Ara, an Outlaw, hedged in and restrained by laws and customs, it may be, but innately ...
— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various
... English is not entirely unrelated to German, Dutch, and even Norwegian; old Greek is the key to modern. But in Hungary one comes face to face with an absolutely new language, in which even guesswork is impossible. When "Levelezoe-Lap" means a postcard, and "ara egy napra" means price per day, you feel that it is all up. The nearest relatives of Hungarian are Turkish and Finnish, the Asiatic ancestors of the race having lived between Finns and Turks; and it bears traces of their migrations, and of the great Mongol invasion ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... staircase of the palazzo of the Conservatori, which is the building that forms the side of the square of the Capitol to the right hand of the visitor as he ascends the magnificent flight of steps from the Via di Ara Coeli. The steep sides of the Capitoline Hill on either side of these steps has been recently turned into a very well-kept and pretty garden, among the lawns and shrubberies of which the attention of the stranger, as ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - Vol. XVII, No. 102. June, 1876. • Various
... troell fawrwych Anian droes yn iawn ei drych; Y dymer ydoedd dwymyn Dda'i yn ei lle,—toddai'n llyn. Gwelent ei drwg—amlwg oedd, A'u llid—mor fyrbwyll ydoedd; Ust! tawelynt drwyddynt draw, O dawelwch, doi wylaw. 'Nawr o'u dwrn yn ara' deg Parai gwir gwymp i'r garreg; Trwst y main, a'r ubain rhwydd Dwys, a dorrai'r distawrwydd. Yna'r gynulleidfa'n llon Ddychwelent—(gwedd a chalon Eto'n awr yn gytun oedd,) ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun
... more constantly obvious members of the Roman population—beggars, soldiers, monks and tourists. The beggars and peasants lie kicking their heels along that grandest of loafing-places the great steps of the Ara Coeli. The dwarfish look of the Capitol is intensified, I think, by the neighbourhood of this huge blank staircase, mouldering away in disuse, the weeds thick in its crevices, and climbing to the rudely solemn facade of the church. The sunshine glares on this great unfinished wall only ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James |
