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...alimentation of his holiness the king. The news struck he poor victim like a charge of the Four Horsemen. He turned pale. His knees shook. He seemed visibly to wither away. Shortly he sank to the ground, spasm after spasm of pain shaking him from head to foot. Before sunset he was dead, snuffed out by sheer fright...
...history of the staging of Greek tragedies goes back to about 1850, when Thomas De Quincey described the first Greek play to be produced in Great Britain as the "next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June...
...Calvin Coolidge once governed it; but it has Wets, Catholics, immigrants; it sent last fall Catholic-Democrat David Ignatius Walsh to the Senate. Give its 18 votes to Smith, Smith's total becomes 262. Looking for 4 more votes, Governor Smith must cast his eyes far into the sunset. Wyoming might well turn Democratic again-but it has only 3 votes. But one step south is Colorado with 6 votes and last fall Colorado elected a Democratic governor. Give Colorado's vote to Smith, his total becomes 268-the sidewalks of New York leap into a frenzied dance...
...flag should be displayed only from sunrise to sunset, or between such hours as may be designated by proper authority...
...codes are dying and time trembles for a birth. Thus, the cedar forests remain but in places they are being leveled to pay gambling debts. Barons and landlords still shoot capercailzies at dawn and snipe at sunset, or shoot one another in grave "affairs of honor." Yet here is a man, a little crazed perhaps, who finds dueling a pitiable farce and who would rather watch the love-antics of moorfowl at sunrise than slaughter them. In the white castles and proud manors, dames still drill their men-servants, still preserve an ancient ritual for meals and marriage, dancing...