These Gambols I shall tolerate for a Season, because I hope the Evil cannot continue longer than till the People of Condition and Taste return to Town.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Come quando la nebbia si dissipa, lo sguardo a poco a poco raffigura cio` che cela 'l vapor che l'aere stipa, cosi` forando l'aura grossa e scura, piu` e piu` appressando ver' la sponda, fuggiemi errore e cresciemi paura; pero` che come
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Emily was guarded in her conversation on this subject, and briefly related a few circumstances concerning Ludovico, whose disappearance, her auditors almost unanimously agreed, had been effected by supernatural means.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Soon after the French withdrew from Fort Toulouse, in 1763, a part of the Alabama, an incorporated tribe of the Creek confederacy, left their villages on the Coosa, and crossing the Mississippi, where they halted for a time on its western bank, settled on the Sabine river under Spanish protection.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

chapelein ; Church Lat. capellanus .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

They loved each other much more than the best child can love its father and mother.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Take two Nutmegs, Musk one dram, Indian leaf or Mace, Spikenard, Costus, Mastich, of each six drams, Styrax Calamitis, Cassia Lignea, Myrrh, Saffron, Cinnamon, Cloves, Carpobalsamum or Cubebs, Bdellium, of each two drams, pure Oil three pounds, Wine three ounces, bruise them as you ought to do, mix them, and let them boil easily, till the Wine be consumed, the Musk being mixed according to art after it is strained.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

[‘ bemete ’] bemīðan 1 to hide, conceal , CP: lie hid .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

| MANUSCRIPTI CODICIS | OPE, LONGE, QVAM | antehac, & emendatior, & au-| ctior: cum Latina interpreta-
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

Carlos Combs, L. M. , 30.03.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 02, June, 1898 by Various

“Of course they attempted to escape in their boats, there is no other way to account for their disappearance,” answered Gaffin; “few craft except such as ours on this coast could live in the sea that was then running, for it was as bad as could well be, as I hear.
— from Won from the Waves by William Henry Giles Kingston

The main features of the process, disregarding the question of commercial economy, are (1) that it leaves no by-products to be disposed of, (2) that it enables the manufacturer to produce directly, without evaporation, a highly concentrated caustic lye.
— from A Text-book of Paper-making by C. F. (Charles Frederick) Cross

"Then mamma is a Cariocan!" cried Lola, and Maria added, "And my father, too."
— from Our Little Brazilian Cousin by Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

What reported conversation can stand a captious criticism like this?
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Very likely," commented Chauvelin laconically.
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

In a recent issue of The Railway Age is published the following, based upon the last report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: "Last year the railways of the United States carried over 13,000,000,000 passengers one mile.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

A paper on "American Locomotives and Rolling Stock," read before the Institution of Civil Engineers, in England, with an abstract on the discussion thereon, has been forwarded to us by the publishers, William Clowes and Sons, Stamford street and Charing Cross, London.
— from Scientific American, Volume 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various