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  • But, O monarch, upon beholding her at night in his mansion, Arjuna, with a fearstricken heart, stepped up to receive her with respect and as soon as he saw her, the son of Pritha, from modesty, closed his eyes.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • But, O monarch, upon beholding her at night in his mansion, Arjuna, with a fearstricken heart, stepped up to receive her with respect and as soon as he saw her, the son of Pritha, from modesty, closed his eyes.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • While the masses cheered Hitler's appearance in Linz or Vienna, while Austria's Jews and, too little known, thousands of Christians of mixed marriages (a heritage of the age of emancipation, liberalism and assimilation!), as well as not so few others stayed away fearstricken, while the scum of the cities and Nazi fanatics, sensing that the protection of the law was being lifted from the Jews, got ready for the misdeeds that are our shame, an event took place that significantly differentiates Austrian from German development.

    Waldheim's Austria Stourzh, Gerald 1987

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