Late in the same century Gower had not ceased to use French, composing many poems in it, though apologizing for his want of skill therein:— "Et si jeo nai de Francois la faconde * * * * * Jeo suis Englois; si quier par tiele voie Estre excusé."[9] Indeed down to nearly 1385, boys in the English grammar-schools were taught to construe their Latin lessons into French.[10] St. Francis of Assisi is said by some of his biographers to have had his original name changed to Francesco because of his early mastery of that language as a qualification for commerce.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Henry Ward Beecher was able to deliver one of the world's greatest addresses at Liverpool because of his excellent memory.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

(And his theories were received, not so much for their own sake, as because of his excellent moral character; for he was thought to be eminently possessed of perfect self-mastery, and therefore it was not thought that he said these things because he was a lover of Pleasure but that he really was so convinced.)
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

And that to which I alone call attention, is the circumstance that it is the spirit of revenge itself, from which develops this new nuance of scientific equity (for the benefit of hate, envy, mistrust, [Pg 85] jealousy, suspicion, rancour, revenge).
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For when I saw him And took his hand, The child-like blueness of his eyes Moved me to tears, And there was an air of eternity about him, Like the cold, clear light that rests at dawn On the hills!
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

As soon as he reached Moscow, Prince Andrew had received from his father Natásha’s note to Princess Mary breaking off her engagement (Mademoiselle Bourienne had purloined it from Princess Mary and given it to the old prince), and he heard from him the story of Natásha’s elopement, with additions.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In January, 1824, at the beginning of his eight months' silence:—"The London must do without me for a time, a time, and half a time, for I have lost all interest about it."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

She was frankly interested in him in spite of, or perhaps because of, his early misfortunes.
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs

The air shimmered with the heat, and the low, insistent buzzing of bees beat on his ears mercilessly.
— from Mr. Opp by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Turning to the pictures, we have first the Madonna del Cardellino (1129), painted by Raphael during his Florentine period when under the influence of Fra Bartolommeo, in 1506 or thereabouts, and afterwards much damaged and restored: still one of the most beautiful of his early Madonnas.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

"Did you ever hear what became of him?" enquired Mrs. Harmar.
— from The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

They're hoofers, that's all—just an Earth-chained bunch of hoofers, even Marie.
— from The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller

The bearded red brows, close above the pale blueness of his eyes, made them more vivid by contrast; they were like pools of blue light amid the brownness of his face.
— from The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown

We will be on hand every morning, Captain, to be drilled in the noble tactics of the soldier.
— from Dorothy on a Ranch by Evelyn Raymond

If he had gone down to Calcutta he had gone by boat; but he might have started on the long land journey across to Bombay, or have even made for Madras.
— from The Lost Heir by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty