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Fable spun diligently, and sang with a clear voice: Established is Eternity's domain, In Love and Gladness melts the strifeful pain; The tedious dream of grief returneth never; Priestess of hearts Sophia is forever.

From Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Hardenberg, Friedrich von

These things being so, it is foolish to say that these victories and this strifeful gain are matters of merely racial application.

From Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child. by Various

Eumaeus, thus encouraged, hastes to bring The strifeful bow and gives it to the king.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander