What is once mine remains mine.
He tried the strength of the stunted trees, and the thick underwood upon which the nest rested, and of which it was formed, and finding they would support his weight, he grasped them firmly, and swung himself up from the ladder till his head and breast were above the nest, and then what an overpowering stench came from it, for in it lay the putrid remains of lambs, chamois, and birds.
The chief thing still remains.
And over the street pavement, the paving stones, those fragments of the oldest remains of antiquity, one walks without ever thinking about them.
Nobility remains noble, as a champagne bottle remains the same, even with blacking in its interior.
She is to assist the landlady in the housekeeping; and, if afterwards she behaves well and remains to be confirmed, the people will treat her as their own daughter.
A holy calm rested on her face, as if the earthly remains bore the impress of the truth that she now stood in the presence of God.
A single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St.
the flame of the match went out, the stove vanished, and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand.
" "No, that will never do," said she, "because I know that the Chinaman and the pot-pourri jar were lovers once, and there always remains behind a feeling of good-will between those who have been so intimate as that.
She is the largest of them all, and never remains on the earth, but flies up to the dark clouds.
He will be a great amusement to us while he remains here.
An old woman and her little granddaughter live there: they rule now in the palace of the Caesars, and show to strangers the remains of its past glories.
Our business sector remains top-class with world-beating research, innovation and enterprise.
For them, developing the economy and improving people's livelihood remains an arduous task and achieving industrialization, urbanization and modernization is an unprecedented endeavor.
What Deng Xiaoping said long ago remains true today.
In autumn, all the swallows fly away into warm countries, but if one happens to linger, the cold seizes it, it becomes frozen, and falls down as if dead; it remains where it fell, and the cold snow covers it.
The challenge to fully address the wages woes of migrant workers remains despite years of crackdown.