==In the Bible == Reference articles: * Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)/Zechariah* Encyclopaedia Biblica/Prophetic Literature and Prophet and Prophecy#42. Ezekiel to Zechariah.* More…
'"Zuleika Dobson" is a 1911 novel by Max Beerbohm, a satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. It was his only novel, but was nonetheless very successful.' }} Category: 1911 works More…
The clock in the Warden's drawing-room had just struck eight,and already the ducal feet were beautiful on the white bearskinhearthrug. So slim and long were they, of instep so nobly More…
The breakfast-things were not yet cleared away. A platefreaked with fine strains of marmalade, an empty toast-rack, abroken rollthese and other things bore witness to a dayinaugurated in More…
I was in Italy when this book was first published. A yearlater (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of myfriends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a a namewhich I hardly More…
Luncheon passed in almost unbroken silence. Both Zuleika andthe Duke were ravenously hungry, as people always are after thestress of any great emotional crisis. Between them, they madevery More…
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oftinterred with their bones." At any rate, the sinner has a betterchance than the saint of being hereafter remembered. We, in More…
Not less averse than from dogging the Duke was I fromremaining another instant in the presence of Miss Dobson. Thereseemed to be no possible excuse for her. This time she had gonetoo far. More…
They had awaited thousands and innumerable thousands ofdaybreaks in the Broad, these Emperors, counting the long slowhours till the night were over. It is in the night especiallythat their More…
And now he had passed under the little arch between the eighthand the ninth Emperor, rounded the Sheldonian, and been lost tosight of Katie, whom, as he was equally glad and sorry he More…
Artistically, there is a good deal to be said for that oldGreek friend of ours, the Messenger; and I dare say you blame mefor having, as it were, made you an eye-witness of the death ofthe More…
And Zuleika? She had done a wise thing, and was where it wasbest that she should be. Her face lay upturned on the water's surface, and round itwere the masses of her dark hair, half More…
Twisting and turning in her flight, with wild eyes thatfearfully retained the image of that small man gathering himselfto spring, Zuleika found herself suddenly where she could nofurther More…
From the shifting gloom of the stair-case to the soft radiancecast through the open door of her bedroom was for poor Zuleika analmost heartening transition. She stood awhile on the More…
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