But what brought infinite harm and damage on the said professions, even more than all the aforesaid causes, was the burning zeal of the new Christian religion, which, after a long and bloody combat, with its wealth of miracles and with the sincerity of its works, had finally cast down and swept away the old faith of the heathens, and, devoting itself most ardently with all diligence to driving out and extirpating root and branch every least occasion whence error could arise, not only defaced or threw to the ground all the marvellous statues, sculptures, pictures, mosaics, and ornaments of the false gods of the heathens, but even the memorials and the honours of numberless men of mark, to whom, for their excellent merits, the noble spirit of the ancients had set up statues and other
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

ave f bird ( esp. large, of wild places).
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The fourth book, entitled “Loss of what has been Acquired,” illustrates, by the main story of the monkey and the crocodile, how fools can be made by flattery to part with their possessions.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

VI Behind her farre away a Dwarfe ° did lag, That lasie seemd in being ever last, Or wearied with bearing of her bag Of needments at his backe.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

It was brushed well back from her expansive, fair, and unwrinkled forehead, beneath which large blue eyes looked out with that strange solemnity we see alone in the orbs of young, thoughtful children, or the very old.
— from Sea and Shore A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" by Catherine A. (Catherine Ann) Warfield

Long Island lay before him like a book, every line of which he could read at leisure.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878 by Various

Leigh Hunt wrote: “I am an Englishman setting an example to my children and my country; and it would be hard, under all these circumstances, if I could not suffer my extremity rather than disgrace myself by effeminate lamentation or worse compromise.”
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

For the Australian black-fellow must have got there a very long time ago indeed; he belongs to an extremely ancient human type, and strikingly recalls in his jaws and skull the Neanderthal savage and other early prehistoric races; while the woolly-headed Tasmanian, a member of a totally distinct human family, and perhaps the very lowest sample of humanity that has survived to modern times, must have crossed over to Tasmania even earlier still, his brethren on the mainland having no doubt been exterminated later on when the stone-age Australian black-fellows first got cast ashore upon the continent inhabited by the yet more barbaric and helpless negrito race.
— from Falling in Love; With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

She was unconsciously sitting rigidly upright, and from his corner, with his compelling eyes still watching her face, that gleam that might have been either love or war again passed through them.
— from Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Gertrude Page

Between Upper and Lower Canada the communication by either land or water, in summer, was very imperfect, during the war.
— from The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Charles Roger

Then sever the muscle which joins the oyster to the other half, so that it may be easily lifted out, without the necessity of cutting.
— from A Handbook of Invalid Cooking For the Use of Nurses in Training, Nurses in Private Practice, and Others Who Care for the Sick by Mary A. Boland

There was an even deeper fellowship, which became explicit later on when both concurred in admiring Swedenborg.
— from William Blake, the Man by Charles Gardner

The magnet will be much stronger if two or three folds of paper are wrapped round it between each layer of wire.
— from How to Make Electrical Machines Containing Full Directions for Making Electrical Machines, Induction Coils, Dynamos, and Many Novel Toys to Be Worked by Electricity by R. A. R. (Reginald Arthur Renaud) Bennett

This element, even if attainable, could only be the result of a protracted series of observations of a nature which will be explained later on when we come to speak of the distances of the stars.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball