Sweet Dishes, Desserts, &c.--In the fourteenth century, the first courses of a repast were called mets or assiettes ; the last, " entremets, dorures, issue de table, desserte , and boule-hors ."
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He lays weight on what he calls the principle of finality, "puissance mysterieuse, indeterminee; fatalite pour les uns; pour les autres volonte providentielle, dont l'action incessante sur les etres vivantes determine, a toutes les epoques de l'existence du monde, la forme, le volume, et la duree de chacun d'eux, en raison de sa destinee dans l'ordre de choses dont il fait partie.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

This declaration, the most highly metaphysical of any but one man ever heard, all the Limitists, even devout Mr. Mansel, either in distinct terms, or by implication, deny.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

The entrance of the great writer was received, indeed, with the utmost respect: even the severest elderly men showed signs of approval and interest, and the ladies even displayed some enthusiasm.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You knew that the clerk Davis was about to leave England —didn't it occur to you when you altered this cheque that suspicion would fall on him?
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

But as for me, for you, the irresistible sea is to separate us, As for an hour carrying us diverse, yet cannot carry us diverse forever; Be not impatient—a little space—know you I salute the air, the ocean and the land, Every day at sundown for your dear sake my love.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Did you sit at them long each day?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

And I will strengthen England by my skill, That if ten Cæsars liv'd and reign'd in Rome, With all the legions Europe doth contain, They should not touch a grass of English ground: [Pg 235] The work that Ninus rear'd at Babylon, The brazen walls fram'd by Semiramis, Carv'd out like to the portal of the sun, Shall not be such as rings the English strand From Dover to the market-place of Rye. Burd.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

I done one crooked thing myself once when I kept water away from a drove of hogs for two days and then let ’em drink all they could hold just before I sold ’em live weight to a Snake River drover.
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

McDevitt, who had just driven over from the rocket range, was a tall, lean engineer dressed in slacks and a spectacular sport shirt emblazoned with tropical flowers.
— from The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Also one of the conditions of happiness is that it be self-sufficing, else it would not set man's appetite at rest, as the last end does.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

As the last echo died away among the marble pillars above, the sun burst through the clouds and flooded the scene.
— from The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

I purpose to make no slips of the tongue and to let everything depend on my future resolutions.
— from The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 by Rupert Hughes

It is true, living creatures seek this end in all their works, but none obtain it; and during all their life, ever deceiving, tormenting, and exerting themselves, they suffer indeed for no other purpose than to die.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

The terrace lay in refreshing shade, and the light evening dew was gathering upon the grass.
— from Katia by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And although he, the said Hastings, did instruct the Resident, Bristow, to inform the said Hyder Beg Khân that he would not receive from the Nabob, as his , letters directed by the spirit of opposition, but should consider every such attempt as his, the minister's, as an insult on our government, yet he did receive as his the Nabob's own letters, and as written from the impressions on his own mind, and as the suggestions of his own judg Page 139 ment, letters to the same effect as those written by the minister, although he had declared upon record that the said "Nabob was a mere cipher in his, the said minister's, hands," and "that he had dared to use both the Nabob's name, and even his seal, affixed to letters either directed to the Nabob or written as from him without his knowledge," and although he did assert or record as aforesaid, that, in a letter which he had lately received from the Nabob, the minister had the presumption to make the Nabob declare that which was true to be false , and that "his making use of the Nabob in such a manner did show how thin the veil was by which he covered his own acts , and that such artifices would only tend to make them the more criminal from the falsehood and duplicity with which they were associated ."
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke