"Thereunder" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of its predecessors, it had parcelled out all the land under its sway to vassal princes who were, subject to the general imperial law and custom, or ritual, together with the homage and tribute duty prescribed thereunder, all practically absolute in their own domains. Roughly speaking, those smaller fiefs may be said to have corresponded in size with the walled-city and surrounding district of our own times, so well known under the name of hien. ...
— Ancient China Simplified • Edward Harper Parker
... on robbery is mixed, for the damages recoverable thereunder are four times the value of the property taken, threefourths being pure penalty, and the remaining fourth compensation for the loss which the plaintiff has sustained. So too the action on unlawful damage under the lex Aquilia is mixed, not ...
— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian
... along all right, Johnnie," Laurella put in eagerly. She tugged at a corner of the pillow, fumbled thereunder with her little brown hand, and dragging out Pap Himes's bankbook, showed it to her daughter, opening at that front page where Pap's clumsy characters made Laurella Himes free of all his savings. "You go right along, Johnnie, and see cain't you help ...
— The Power and the Glory • Grace MacGowan Cooke
... did I find: he veiled his countenance and made his water muddy, that no one might see therethrough and thereunder. ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche |
