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Caesar and Cleopatra

By: George Bernard Shaw

... have found flocks and pas- tures, men and cities, but no other Caesar, no air native to me, no man kindred to me, none who can do my day’s deed, and ... ... the throne and dashes after Ftatateeta, whirling it like a scourge in the air. Caesar makes a bound and manages to catch her and hold her while Ftata... ...ress into ordered rank opposite it; draw their swords and lift them in the air with a shout of HAIL CAESAR. Cleopatra turns and stares wildly at Caesa... ...the Sicilian. Why, man, what are you dreaming of? Since I came through the lines beyond the theatre there, I have brought my caravan past three sentin... ...t without Caesar’s express order we dare not let you pass beyond the Roman lines. APOLLODORUS. Well, Centurion; and has not the light- house been with... ...DORUS. Well, Centurion; and has not the light- house been within the Roman lines since Caesar landed there? CLEOPATRA. Yes, yes. Answer that, if you c... ...o. Mithridates is marching by the great road to Memphis to cross above the Delta. Achillas will fight him there. CAESAR (all audacity). Achillas shall... ...Caesar. CAESAR. Who bade you, pray, thrust yourself into the battle of the Delta, uttering the barbarous cries of your native land, and affirming your...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...ey heard a plaintive song, a song loud and soft, rising and falling in the air like the wing-beating of a wounded bird. 7 Flaubert It was the voice o... ...e seized a brimming cantharus by its rings, raised it straight up into the air with his outstretched arms, from which his chains hung down, and then l... ...e front that faced Carthage, in another garden full of trimmed vegetation. Lines of white flowers all following one another in regular succession form... ...an’s arm, pinned it so firmly to the cloth, that the shaft quivered in the air. Matho quickly plucked it out; but he was weaponless and naked; at last... ...te; channels of water flowed through woods of palm; there were long, green lines of olive-trees; rose-coloured vapours floated in the gorges of the hi... ...hill; below them stretched the plain lost in the vapours of the night. The lines of soldiers also were defil- ing below, making undulations in the sha... ...of harp of ebony wood, taller than herself, and triangular in shape like a delta; she fixed the point in a crystal globe, and with both hands began to...

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