When this course had been removed, drinking commenced, a red lacquer cup being handed first to Sir Harry.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Thou dost well, however, since God has created thee to serve mankind; thou art a very honest ass, but not to be better rubbed down, currycombed, trapped, and fed than thou art, seems to me indeed to be too hard a lot.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

By Rene Des Cartes, Amsterdam, 1617; rendered into English, London, 1653, 4to.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Une société a de nombreuses bonnes raisons de considérer sérieusement le marché international.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I shall be with you very soon, and am ever, Your affectionate brother, R. DE COURCY.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Along their face The big round drops coursed down with silent pace, Conglobing on the dust.
— from The Iliad by Homer

By this text I was made to see that the Holy Ghost never intended that men who have gifts and abilities should bury them in the earth, but rather did command and stir up such to the exercise of their gift, and also did commend those that were apt and ready so to do, "They have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints."
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

And Vasari finished the Hall without him, assisted by Raffaello dal Colle, the Bolognese Giovan Battista Bagnacavallo, the Spaniards Roviale and Bizzerra, and many others of his friends and pupils.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 07 (of 10) Tribolo to Il Sodoma by Giorgio Vasari

It should be added that the Hampshire fief of William de Roumare is paid for as 20 fees in 1159 and 1162, and was similarly accounted for by Richard de Camville in both these years.
— from Feudal England: Historical Studies on the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries by John Horace Round

I follow her in fancy upon her journey, and imagine her arrival at the big, respectable, dull country house; and I wonder will she regret a little and think fondly now and then of Madame Bourdon’s hotel and the ragged staff of comrades she has left behind her here.
— from Mademoiselle Miss, and Other Stories by Henry Harland

Asking Cabinet Opinions on Fort Sumter Attempt to Form and Coalition Cabinet Bankruptcy Blocking "Compromise" on Slavery Issue Bull Run Defeat Capital and Labor Cease to Call Slavery Wrong, and Join Them in Calling it
— from Widger's Quotations from the Project Gutenberg Editions of the Works of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln

According to the archæological records derived from various works of the historians of Le Quercy, these paintings in the west cupola of Cahors were carried out under the direction of the Bishops Raymond de Cornil, 1280-93, Sicard de Montaigu, 1294-1300, Raymond Panchelli, [40] 1300-1312, or Hugo Geraldi, 1312-16, the friend of Pope Clement V. and of Philip IV. of France, who was burnt alive at Avignon, or perhaps even of Guillaume de Labroa, 1316-24, whose residence was at Avignon, and who governed the diocese of Cahors through a procurator.
— from Gothic Architecture by Edouard Corroyer