The instances you have quoted, replied the other, "are certainly very encouraging! Homer past a life in blindness and beggary; Columbus, in vain solicitation and feverish disappointment; and Luther's was spent in struggle, imprisonment, and danger...

At size 8, I had to admit, I was so self-conscious (and secretly, overweeningly proud of it) that often that was all I was.

Suppose 𝛤 is an arithmetic group defined over a global field K, that the K-type of 𝛤 is A_n with n≥2, and that the ambient semisimple group that contains 𝛤 as a lattice has at least two noncocompact factors.

She was carrying an armful of Bibles for her class, and such was her view of life that events which produced heartache in others wrought beatific smiles upon her—an enviable result, although, in the opinion of Angel, it was obtained by a curiously unnatural sacrifice of humanity to mysticism.