In Angelo's room, among a litter of colored sketches (studies) and glowing pictures, the voices sounded mellower, but not less merrily.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And in examining their actions and lives one cannot see that they owed anything to fortune beyond opportunity, which brought them the material to mould into the form which seemed best to them.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

[A; a] lift or carry s.t. heavy, usually by holding the bottom.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

So towards old Sylvanus they her bring; Who with the noyse awaked commeth out To weet the cause, his weake steps governing, 125 And aged limbs on Cypresse stadle stout; And with an yvie twyne his wast is girt about.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

He would not permit me to declaim longer in the portico than he himself had sweat in the school, but exclaimed, “Your sentiments do not reflect the public taste, young man, and you are a lover of common sense, which is still more unusual.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

But if their talk were foul, Then would he whistle rapid as any lark, Or carol some old roundelay, and so loud That first they mocked, but, after, reverenced him.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

[53] with the farman conferring benefits and with the dignity of Rana, the khilat of investiture, choice horses, and a letter of condolence suitable to the occasion to Prince Karan.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

“I don't see why you complain about a lack of correspondence, sir,” Mr. Skinner protested.
— from Cappy Ricks; Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

The king had either deposited these volumes for security with the Abbot, or, what seems not improbable, had no established collection which could be deemed a library, and, as leisure or curiosity stimulated, commanded the loan of a volume.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

The trouble at that time was the total want of experience on the part of the most of our officers of all grades, combined with an amazing lack of common sense by some of high authority.
— from The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Leander Stillwell

He speaks with an accent as of pained surprise, and amused look of contempt, so profound
— from Unicorns by James Huneker

There was also a lot of crockery statuary, mostly faded, chipped, or worn in some way.
— from The Impossibles by Randall Garrett

This no one doubts, and this, in my opinion, is all that he who framed the resolutions could have meant by it; for I shall not readily believe that he was ever of opinion that a State, under the Constitution and in conformity with it, could, upon the ground of her own opinion of its unconstitutionality, however clear and palpable she might think the case, annul a law of Congress, so far as it should operate on herself by her own legislative power.
— from The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Edwin Percy Whipple

As I was so sure of going back when I left Devil's Gate I had left my gun, saddle, a wagon that I had traded for, as well as a lot of carriage springs that I had gathered up.
— from Forty Years Among the Indians A true yet thrilling narrative of the author's experiences among the natives by Daniel W. (Daniel Webster) Jones

He speaks with an accent as of pained surprise, an amused look of contempt, so profound that it becomes almost pity, for human imbecility.
— from Figures of Several Centuries by Arthur Symons