And to the classes of galleys so distinguished the Italians, of the later Middle Age at least, did certainly apply, rightly or wrongly, the classical terms of Bireme , Trireme , and Quinquereme , in the sense of galleys having two men and two oars to a bench, three men and three oars to a bench, and five men and five oars to a bench.[3] That this was the mediaeval arrangement is very certain from the details afforded by Marino Sanudo the Elder, confirmed by later writers and by works of art.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

From Ringsaker came Anders J. Tömmerstigen, wife Maria Olsdatter and children Johannes, Olive, Peter (b. 1843) and Karen Marie, in 1846, while from North Aurdal in Valders came Ole Loe and Ole H. Hippe, both with families, and from Slidre, Tollef H. Gvale, all in 1847.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

My Lord Dives's remains are in the family vault: the statuaries are cutting an inscription veraciously commemorating his virtues, and the sorrows of his heir, who is disposing of his goods.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

In this case we think Arthur is very clearly a ruler of the spirit realm, for, like the great Tuatha De Danann king Dagda, he can command its fairy-like inhabitants, and his army is an army of spirits or fairies.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

But, on the other side, the consuls, having placed their chairs within view of them, were proceeding with the levy; thither the tribunes hasten, and draw the assembly along with them; a few were cited, by way of making an experiment, and instantly violence commenced.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

With this object I felt inspired to write a popular appeal in verse, calling upon the German princes and peoples to inaugurate a great crusade against Russia, as the country which had been the prime instigator of that policy in Germany which had so fatally separated the monarchs from their subjects.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; For all in vain comes counsel to his ear.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

DON GONZALO: Ahora, don Juan, Don Juan, now pues desperdicias también that you even throw away el momento que te dan, the last moment allowed, conmigo al infierno ven. come with me to hell, today.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A storm, which had been fiercely raging for several days, gave no signs of exhaustion.—The snow, which had been falling for fifty or sixty hours—not in a fleecy shower, but mingled with cutting particles like hail—filled the atmosphere, and with each successive gust of a stiff northwester, was whirled aloft in vast curling sheets and wreaths—or driven through the narrow streets with a force that was blinding and almost irresistible.
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

Such, in outward form and garb, was Clemency Newcome; who was supposed to have unconsciously originated a corruption of her own christian name, from Clementina (but nobody knew, for the deaf old mother, a very phenomenon of age, whom she had supported almost from a child, was dead, and she had no other relation); who now busied herself in [22] preparing the table; and who stood, at intervals, with her bare red arms crossed, rubbing her grazed elbows with opposite hands, and staring at it very composedly, until she suddenly remembered something else it wanted, and jogged off to fetch it.
— from The Battle of Life: A Love Story by Charles Dickens

In any case, this view, which isn’t yours, appears to have been that of Madame de Godollo, for, they tell me, her apartment is very coquettishly furnished; and to coax Mademoiselle Brigitte into the same path of elegance she made a proposal to her as follows: ‘A friend of mine,’ she said, ‘a Russian princess for whom one of the first upholsterers has just made splendid furniture, is suddenly recalled to Russia by the czar, a gentleman with whom no one dares to trifle.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

This is the only point for landing in certain states of current or surf, although in very calm weather there is an available cove to eastward, and the daring may be run ashore in the bays.
— from The Islets of the Channel by Walter Cooper Dendy

In some young specimens from the Cape of Good Hope, and in var. concinnus , I found six pairs of spines on the segments of the posterior cirri.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

2. p. 281: “Postquam emulxere lac, in cava vasa lignea diffundunt; et compungentes ad illa vasa cæcos lac agitant ( δονέουσι τὸ γάλα ) cujus quod summum est, delibatur, pretiosiusque habetur; vilius autem quod subsidit.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann

2 When detected a deception always implies a conflict between two irreconcilable ideas; and such a conflict gives rise to a feeling of pain, 3 which may call forth resentment against its volitional cause, the deceiver.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The name has appeared in various compilations, but no workers have referred any of their specimens to that species.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman