[280] Ciacco : The name or nickname of a Florentine wit, and, in his day, a great diner-out. Boccaccio, in his commentary, says that, though poor, Ciacco associated with men of birth and wealth, especially such as ate and drank delicately.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

15 Pero el mayoral y el cabrero, advertidos de todo, le cerraron el paso, y entre ellos y los soldados, que ya penetraban también por aquella puerta, lo cogieron y ataron sin contratiempo alguno, aunque aquel diablo de hombre desplegó en la lucha las fuerzas y la agilidad de un tigre.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

SYN: Loose, afloat, agog, abroad, abroach, distracted, disordered.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And again, Aux dépens du Bon Sens gardez de plaisanter.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Lastly, if from a single point there be conceived to be drawn two diverging lines which at first are at a definite distance apart, but are produced to infinity, it is certain that the distance between the two lines will be continually increased, until at length it changes from definite to indefinable.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

" Now, reader, note the remark here, that the ancient Christian fathers almost universally and unanimously proclaimed the doctrine of the Trinity as one of the leading tenets of the Christian faith, and as a doctrine derived directly by revelation from heaven.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

JOHNSON.' On Sunday evening, Sept. 14, I arrived at Ashbourne, and drove directly up to Dr. Taylor's door.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But Robin Hood and Allan a Dale did not come again to Sherwood so quickly, for thus it was: Robin, through his great fame as an archer, became a favorite with the King, so that he speedily rose in rank to be the chief of all the yeomen.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

By-and-by, after they had between them carefully thought over what they should do to carry out their object, the curate hit upon an idea very well adapted to humour Don Quixote, and effect their purpose; and his notion, which he explained to the barber, was that he himself should assume the disguise of a wandering damsel, while the other should try as best he could to pass for a squire, and that they should thus proceed to where Don Quixote was, and he, pretending to be an aggrieved and distressed damsel, should ask a favour of him, which as a valiant knight-errant he could not refuse to grant; and the favour he meant to ask him was that he should accompany her whither she would conduct him, in order to redress a wrong which a wicked knight had done her, while at the same time she should entreat him not to require her to remove her mask, nor ask her any question touching her circumstances until he had righted her with the wicked knight.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

SO within a while they saw a tower as white as any snow, well matchecold all about, and double dyked.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The distant pickets were seen to advance, and a dragoon dashed over the plain with the intelligence that the enemy was advancing quickly.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

It has been used by white men in intermittent fevers, also as a diuretic, diaphoretic and sialagogue.
— from Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. (Huron Herbert) Smith

Togo, as I have stated in an earlier chapter, established a flying base first at the Elliot Islands and afterwards at Dalny, during the war in the Far East.
— from Naval Warfare by James R. (James Richard) Thursfield

Strange to say, a number of years afterwards, it sprang to life as an acting drama during the memorable siege of Saragossa by the French, where it had a besieged city for its stage, and patriots and heroes for its actors and audience.
— from Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Governor Bellomont was anxious to lay hands on Kidd by fair means or foul, and in the light of subsequent events this letter appears as a disingenuous decoy.
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

It is good to read of that kindness and humbleness of St. Francis of Assisi, who spoke never to bird, nor to cicada, nor even to wolf and beasts of prey, but as his brother;—and so we find are moved the minds of all good and mighty men, as in the lesson that we have from the 'Mariner' of Coleridge, and yet more truly and rightly taught in the 'Hartleap Well'— "Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels,"— and again in the 'White Doe' of Rylstone, with the added teaching, that anguish of our own "Is tempered and allayed by sympathies Aloft ascending, and descending deep, Even to the inferior kinds;"— so that I know not of anything more destructive of the whole theoretic faculty, not to say of the Christian character and human intellect,[31] than those accursed sports in which man makes of himself cat, tiger, leopard, and alligator in one; and gathers into one continuance of cruelty, for his amusement, all the devices that brutes sparingly and at intervals use against each other for their necessities.
— from Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin

The amortisseur winding assists in starting and serves also as a damping device to minimize hunting .
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 07 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins