Another of the stories in this book was, that if a woman, on leaving off work on Saturday night, left her distaff loaded, she might be sure that the thread she would obtain from it during the following week would only produce linen of bad quality, which could not be bleached; this was considered to be proved by the fact that the Germans wore dark-brown coloured shirts, and it was known that the women never unloaded their distaffs from Saturday to Monday.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob
It is, not to despise it too much, however, this common humanity, at which one laughs, of which one is, and into which we throw ourselves through a healthful hilarity whenever we are with Molière.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert
The place still stood as on the day it was deserted: a line of iron rails with a bifurcation; a truck in working order; a world of lumber, old wood, old iron; a blacksmith’s forge on one side, half buried in the leaves of dwarf madronas; and on the other, an old brown wooden house.
— from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rare temples thou hast seen, I know, And rich for in and outward show: Survey this chapel, built alone, Without or lime, or wood, or stone: Then say if one thou'st seen more fine Than this, the fairies' once, now thine.
— from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 by Robert Herrick
THIS CHAPEL BUILT, ALONE, WITHOUT OR LIME, OR WOOD, OR STONE.
— from A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick
Those who in their agony have turned to the Académie, and weary of loving, or weary of cursing, have stretched forth their arms to her, have clasped but a shadow.’
— from The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by Alphonse Daudet
Emancipate the slaves in Texas, and invite men from the army, invite men from the North, invite men from Ireland, invite men from Germany,—the friends of freedom, of every name and every nation?—bid them welcome to the millions of acres of fertile lands we shall there confiscate, and they will form a barrier of freemen, a wall of liberty, over which, or through which, or beneath which it will be impossible for slavery to extend itself.
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick
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