Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, et tot orbibus in captivitatem flexos , to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made-flowers; and all courtiers to effect a pleasing grace in this kind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

And again, if a people have omitted, or from outward pressure have not had it in their power to give themselves a constitution by the tentative process of applying a corrective to each evil as it arose, or as the sufferers gained strength to resist it, this retardation of political progress is no doubt a great disadvantage to them, but it does not prove that what has been found good for others would not have been good also for them, and will not be so still when they think fit to adopt it.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

The smaller pillows are red (occasionally purple, ungu , or orange, jingga ), and are called the “embroidered pillows” ( bantal bĕrtĕkat , or bantal p’rada ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

This result reached, the Lodges thought their moral improvement required a visit to Berlin; but forty years of varied emotions had not deadened Adams's memories of Berlin, and he preferred, at any cost, to escape new ones.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

It is, therefore, important to cultivate a faculty which serves as judge between the two guides, which does not permit conscience to go astray and corrects the errors of prejudice.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

this (you will say) is absurd and contradictory; the east and west may as soon shake hands as Folly and Wisdom be reconciled.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

He appoints a commission to examine discoveries like this and report upon the value; then the Pope pays the discoverer one-half of that assessed value and takes the statue.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

xxviii An Advertisement Concerning this Edition.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

It’s on the second shelf of the sitting-room closet and you and Diana can have it if you like, and a cooky to eat with it along in the afternoon, for I daresay Matthew ‘ll be late coming in to tea since he’s hauling potatoes to the vessel.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There may, of course, be other sources of direct 99 light on the shadow side that will entirely alter and complicate the effect.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Brito was present in every place of danger, giving orders and conveying relief, and after a long and arduous contest, the enemy at length gave way, leaving 400 men dead or dying at the foot of the walls.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Having formed themselves as a congregation, they erected a chapel for worship, which is that standing nearly opposite the Parish Church, the building bearing this inscription on its front: Erected, 1573; Enlarged, 1685; Repaired, 1809, 1831."—
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

He followed this by a course in Morrin College and after completing this entered McGill University from which [321] he was graduated M. D. in 1890.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Now try something where the hands and arms carry the entire weight of the body.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

It was a recollection and a courtesy that evidently greatly gratified them.
— from Coningsby; Or, The New Generation by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The young and the old live together in narrow quarters, without separating the sexes, and are crowded together even during the most private acts.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

Shallow water, such as was found in Aboukir Bay, if properly utilized, will prevent a flank being turned, so that an enemy can get on both sides of the ships there, or otherwise concentrate upon them, as by enfilading; and if, in addition, the ships are anchored close to each other, it becomes impossible for two of the attacking force to direct their fire upon one of the defence, without being exposed to reprisals from those next astern and ahead.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The old shouts of Vive l’Empereur resounded across the frontier as a challenge to Europe.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing