It was for this conduct that I incurred your hatred, because I did not allow people to sell you wine and vegetables and fruit for gold, or the corn which had been locked away by the rich in their granaries to be suddenly converted by you into silver and gold for their benefit.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

lĭb-ellus = a little book „ lĭber = a book .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Some stood [860] upright and some were lying low, [Pg 261] Some with head topmost, others with their feet; And some with face to feet bent like a bow.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

wrecche I falle, 705 I am but lost, al be myn herte trewe; Now mighty god, thou on my sorwe rewe!' Ful pale y-waxen was hir brighte face, Hir limes lene, as she that al the day Stood whan she dorste, and loked on the place
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

What Antony shall speak, I will protest He speaks by leave and by permission; And that we are contented Caesar shall Have all true rights and lawful ceremonies.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

"What!" said the tailor, "drag bread for seven days on one's back like a beast of burden, and not be able to look about.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The temper of our governments, for a long time to come, would not permit those rigorous precautions by which the European nations guard the avenues into their respective countries, as well by land as by water; and which, even there, are found insufficient obstacles to the adventurous stratagems of avarice.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

During that time they want a quiet place and to be let alone, but when tame they will come out at night and climb up the curtains if allowed.]
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Of a decoction of mallowes, vyolets, barly, quince seed, lettice leaves, one pint; of barly meale, two ounces; of oyle of vyolets and roses, of each, an ounce and half; of butter, one ounce; and then seeth them all together till they be like a broathe, puttyng thereto, at the ende, four yolkes of eggs; and the maner of applying them is with peeces of cloth, dipped in the aforesaid decoction, being actually hoate."
— from A Book About Doctors by John Cordy Jeaffreson

not a thing to be laughed at, but a severe trial to the feelings."
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

When the trend of wages continued upward—judged by the reports in the daily press by leaps and bounds, but by us, who had struggled to keep body and soul together on six or seven dollars a week, or less—the feeling of relief deepened.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

When the horns of the moon appear to point upwards the moon is said to be like a boat, and various weather prognostications are drawn from this phenomenon.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

So that the door had hardly been closed which left the pair together than--metaphorically--he sprang at Mr Baker like a bull terrier at a rat.
— from Miss Arnott's Marriage by Richard Marsh

And thus there was a reaction by leaps and bounds of generous feeling toward that once unhappiest of young men.
— from An Annapolis First Classman by Edward L. (Edward Latimer) Beach

He was half-ashamed of being looked at by those who knew him; and had felt some relief in the society of Mr. Cockey till Mr. Cockey had become jovial with wine, simply because Mr. Cockey was so poor a creature that he felt no fear of him.
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

It was in this vicinity that Charles Cavileer ( see Tour 5 ), one of the most prominent settlers of the State, in the 1860's while making a trip with a party from Pembina to Devils Lake, saw a herd of buffalo like a black cloud on the horizon.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota