"54" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the meantime we are enjoying the luxury, far away out at sea and forty-three days from port, of fresh meat; the sheep on board the prize being in excellent condition, and I have them slaughtered in sufficient numbers for the crew. At noon the sky becoming overcast; lat. 16.54 N., long. ...
— The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter • Raphael Semmes
... exclude me unwilling from his dwelling: but the bit of Jupiter[53] perforce constrained him to do this. And straightway my person and my mind were distorted, and horned, as ye see, stung by the keenly-biting fly, I rushed with maniac boundings to the sweet stream of Cerchneia, and the fountain[54] of Lerna; and the earth-born neatherd Argus of untempered fierceness, kept dogging me, peering after my footsteps with thick-set eyes. Him, however, an unlooked-for sudden fate bereaved of life; but I hornet-stricken am driven by the scourge divine from land to ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus
... contradictory character; but there is a remarkable coincidence in all accounts of the physical geography of the island. The moist climate, the fertile soil, the richly-wooded plains, the navigable rivers, and the abundance of its fish,[54] are each and all mentioned by the early geographers. The description given by Diodorus Siculus of a "certain large island a considerable distance out at sea, and in the direction of the west, many days' sail from Lybia," if it applies to Ireland, would make us suppose that the Erinn of pagan ...
— An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 • Mary Frances Cusack
... 54. A COUNTRY CHRISTMAS by Grant Showerman (Century Magazine). Professor Showerman's country chronicles are now well known to American readers, and this is quite the best of them. These sketches rank with those of Hamlin Garland as a permanent and delightful record ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1917 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... after a pitying sigh, Her eyes directed toward me with that look A mother casts on a delirious child." [54] ...
— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske
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