But that honor, perhaps, were not fit for monarchies, except it be in the person of the monarch himself, or his sons; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman emperors, who did impropriate the actual triumphs to themselves and their sons, for such wars as they did achieve in person, and left only for wars achieved by subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

and yet, what is more foolish than for some petty, trivial affront, to take such a revenge as both sides shall be sure to be losers, and where the quarrel must be decided at the price of so many limbs and lives?
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

“I know you were in love with Countess A—— B——,” said she, “and I felt sure you would not dare to come to supper with me.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Jones, who was little subject to fear, could not avoid being somewhat shocked at this sudden appearance.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A ball soon struck the light and polished paddle from the hands of the chief, and drove it through the air, far in the advance.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

[A; b6] shellac s.t. sílak 2 a for the sun to be shining clear and bright.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ay, marry, uncle; for I always thought It was both impious and unnatural That such immanity and bloody strife Should reign among professors of one faith.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The little Baron never quite approved of Anna, because she spoke no Polish.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The night was moonlight, and black shadows surrounded us.
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

Has anything been stirring since I saw them last?"
— from Charlotte's Inheritance by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

With her mother, a large part of their income died also, but she still had sufficient money to supply her wants.
— from The Alchemist's Secret by Isabel Cecilia Williams

But walking home across the fields, where full summer was swinging on the delicious air and there was now no bull but only red cows to crop short the 'milk-maids' and buttercups, she suffered from this strange revelation of the strength of softness and passivity—as though she had seen in the white figure of 'Anonyma,' and heard in her voice something from beyond, symbolic, inconceivable, yet real.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

So, in the misty dawn of September 8, the greycoats, picked Prussians and burly Saxons, swarmed forward, seeming to renew themselves irresistibly.
— from The Battle of the Marne by G. H. (George Herbert) Perris

She had not taken pains enough, and could improve the work by introducing new and better scenes; she had imprudently said things she ought not to have said, and could imagine the reviewers (orthodox to a man) tearing her book to pieces in a fine rage, and scattering its leaves to the four winds of heaven.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Having got as low down as that place, General Phillips seemed to discover an intention to make a landing, but upon advices received by a vessel from Portsmouth, the enemy weighed anchor, and with all the sail they could crowd, hastened up the river, this intelligence made me apprehensive that the enemy intended to manoeuvre me out of Richmond where I returned immediately, and again collected our small force, intelligence was the same day received that Lord Cornwallis (who I had been assured, to have embarked at Wilmington) was marching through North Carolina, (this was confirmed by the landing of General Phillips at Brandon south side of James River.)
— from Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Similar to shufeldti , but back paler, brownish gray, breast grayer, sides with less pinkish brown, head and breast still sharply defined from adjacent areas.
— from Color Key to North American Birds with bibliographical appendix by Frank M. (Frank Michler) Chapman