The fine Thucydidean speeches, the dramatic power of grasping character, and the pathos and poetry that run through the stories, along with a humour such as is shown in the Edda, and a varied grace of style that never flags or palls, make Snorri one of the greatest of historians. [Please select]
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"That bit in 'Carmen,'" she said, "it always brings the shudder; it never palls on me, never grows stale." [Please select]
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The plain coffins, with or without palls (this had none), are placed in an open, sideless tramcar, sometimes with flowers, sometimes without. [Please select]
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Everything palls in this poor world of ours, even a mill made of two straws. [Please select]
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"Do you wonder that physical pleasure palls a little at times." [Please select]
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Before a sweet disposition and a well informed mind mere physical beauty palls. [Please select]
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Nothing palls upon one so much as having to dine at a restaurant every day. [Please select]
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Brummell (whom I ever despised) roared like an insolent cat--he was always very precise and cat-like, and dreadfully insolent, but insolence palls, after a while--even in Society. [Please select]
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"Well, I have some lawbooks on my table good, big, wise-looking chaps and I take a turn at them semioccasionally when pleasure palls or parents chide." [Please select]
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