[12] of the said church, when this book of the Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects was printed the first time, there was a little panel in distemper painted by Giotto with infinite
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

As a Language Primer it develops a practical vocabulary and the power of reading and expression.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

La señora, dejando a ratos la escritura, pasaba a la pieza inmediata donde estaba su hija.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In 1774 the Année Littéraire published a long poem in de Clieu's honor.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Their patience was at last provoked into despair.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Desmarets, bereaved, sold his place to Martin Falleix's brother and left Paris in despair.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Their infatuation encouraging me, I spoke like a learned physician, I dogmatized, I quoted authors whom I had never read.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But sometimes in Plautus, and especially in Horace, Livy, and late prose, it denotes the thing parted with: as, cūr valle permūtem Sabīnā dīvitiās operōsiōrēs ?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

she cried at length, pausing in despair.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor

Sur sa lyre d'ivoire, avec les Polymnies, Il dit l'hymne paiën, cher aux
— from Masters of French Music by Arthur Hervey

The Transvaal has a boundary line of over 1,600 miles in circumference, and of this a large portion is disputed by different native tribes.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The work is a pearl in literature, and, like pearls, it derives value from its scarcity, for the whole edition was limited to about a hundred copies.'
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

I am nothing more than a lions' provider: I do not feel at all sure that they will not growl and finally destroy me.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

Jackson's long and earnest entreaty for an army with which to carry on the campaign at last produced its desired effect.
— from Red Eagle and the Wars With the Creek Indians of Alabama. by George Cary Eggleston

The walk in the rain had given her delicate skin a touch of color and heightened the beauty of her tender eyes, "so deeply blue that they were black," as Lord Patrick Illington described them on his first meeting at her presentation at Court.
— from The Squaw Man: A Novel by Julie Opp

"I am sure it was not," reply I, stoutly; then, after a little pause, "I do not think that I did get on well with him—not what I call getting on—he seems rather a touchy young gentleman."
— from Nancy: A Novel by Rhoda Broughton

She says if Tilda Ann had only had a little patience it 'd of been a great deal better for her in the end, for if Tilda Ann 'd had a little more patience she 'd never have come scurryin' home cross-lots that night in the fog 'n' gone hickety-pickety over the well-curb, thinkin' it was a stone wall.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Neighbors' Affairs by Anne Warner