If thou wert yet alive, and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

If thou wert yet alive and yet cherished a desire of revenge against me, it would be better satiated in my life than in my destruction.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the Will , whereby it chooseth, and desireth, or rejecteth, and misliketh a thing known.
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

The Treasurer was responsible for the collection and distribution of revenue and was the keeper of the royal treasure at the palace at Winchester.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly

He is both capable and desirous of rendering any service to the cause, and information to the Committee.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

The Mounts of the Hand ( Plate VI ., Part II.) vary in the most remarkable manner in accordance with the character and dispositions of races and their different temperaments.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

It was a move of the greatest daring, since the line was over a broken country almost destitute of roads, and, the old base of supplies having been abandoned, the men had to starve until Gneisenau could secure another by way of Louvain.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Then came a deluge of rain, and the wind increased to hurricane force.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson