seeing that without emulation, ambition, or envy, ye loved one another like brothers, each rejoicing as much in the honour and profit of his friend as in his own!
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

They were flying high and low but ever round and round in straight and curving lines and ever flying from left to right, circling about a temple of air.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Da indi in qua mi fuor le serpi amiche, perch'una li s'avvolse allora al collo, come dicesse 'Non vo' che piu` diche'; e un'altra a le braccia, e rilegollo, ribadendo se' stessa si` dinanzi, che non potea con esse dare un crollo.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Maragogipe, t & m n A variety of Coffea arabica ; large bean, elephantine roast, woody in the cup.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

He was about the age of two-and-twenty, among the tallest of the middle size; had chestnut-coloured hair, which he wore tied up in a ribbon; a high polished forehead, a nose inclining to the aquiline, lively blue eyes, red pouting lips, teeth as white as snow, and a certain openness of countenance—but why need I describe any more particulars of his person?
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Plays such as Alexandre Dumas's Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle , or the pseudo-historical dramas of Scribe- Adrienne Lecouvreur, Bertrand et Raton, Un Verre d'Eau, Les Trois Maupin, etc.--are amusing toys, like those social or military tableaux, the figures of which you can set in motion by dropping a penny in the slot.
— from Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer

[9] The Glorious Sun, that rules the Day, Gives vital warmth and life by ev'ry Ray.
— from Selected Poems (1685-1700) by John Tutchin

When sixty years ago Lord Brougham, en route for Italy, was thrown from his travelling berline and his leg was broken, near the Italian hamlet of Cannes, the Riviera was as unknown to the polite world as the centre of China.
— from Worldly Ways & Byways by Eliot Gregory

The road, as located by Engineer Roberts in his report, is laid from the head-waters of Lake Superior in a nearly due westerly line across the State of Minnesota to Red River, near Fort Abercrombie; thence "across the Dakota and Missouri Rivers to the valley of the Yellow Stone, and along that valley to Bozeman's Pass, through the Belt range of mountains; thence down the Gallatin Valley, crossing the Madison River, and over to the Jefferson Valley, and along that to the Deer Lodge Pass of the Rocky Mountains; thence along Clarke's Valley to Lake Pend d'Oreille, and from this lake across the Columbia plain to Lewis or Snake River; down that to its junction with the Columbia; along the Columbia to the Cowlitz, and over the portage to Puget Sound, along its southern extremity, to any part which may be selected."
— from Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants. by Ledyard Bill

A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha BY E. RAYMOND
— from A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha by E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond) Hall

Having made up his mind, he bent his steps toward her abode; but he took care to purchase a lovely bouquet en route; we must always be gallant, especially with a woman who has had a weakness for us.
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

—We may next illustrate the notion of being by approaching it from another standpoint—by examining a fundamental distinction which may be drawn between real being ( ens reale ) and logical being ( ens rationis ).
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

It grows chiefly in the southern provinces, and especially in the forests at the foot of Adam's Peak; but here it has been so prodigally felled, first by the Dutch, and afterwards by the English, without any precautions for planting or production, that it has at last become exceedingly rare.
— from Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir