[5275] Aretine's Lucretia, by a suitor of hers was so saluted, and 'tis their ordinary fashion. ———dentes illudunt saepe labellis, Atque premunt arete adfigentes oscula——— They cannot, I say, contain themselves, they will be still not only joining hands, kissing, but embracing, treading on their toes, &c., diving into their bosoms, and that libenter, et cum delectatione , as [5276] Philostratus confesseth to his mistress; and Lamprias in Lucian, Mammillas premens, per sinum clam dextra , &c., feeling their paps, and that scarce honestly sometimes: as the old man in the [5277] Comedy well observed of his son, Non ego te videbam manum huic puellae in sinum insere ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
Et enfin, en droite ligne de ce qui précède, on crée les hyperliens, créant de ce fait l'hypertexte.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
H. S. 1, 2, 114, when thirst thy throat consumes, dost call for cups of gold?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane
So ever is it with the great, With whom the whim doth always run, That Heaven all creatures doth create For their behoof beneath the sun-- Count they four feet, or two, or none.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine
Though it certainly does cost France somewhat dear to assert her rights in that uncivilized country.’” “Brutal politics, I must confess.” said Maximilian; “but don’t attach any serious importance, dear, to what your father said.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
In addition to the Great Festivals, Corpus Christi Day, Church feasts and ales, the occasions of royal visits, of episcopal visitations, victories, and many other great events, were always celebrated by the ringing of the church bells.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
What is more, I made such progress in my new peculiar sort of investigation that I could distinguish correctly from the mere air of each in what summer villa he was living.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Comme au bout d'un certain temps il n'était pas encore arrivé à Constantinople, le conducteur de caravanes forma bientôt un projet malhonnête; il vendit les soies et abandonna l'humble métier de chamelier.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
I have known the Chevalier de Casanova, for instance, to travel six hundred miles, from Paris to Turin, for the purpose of meeting Mr. Charles Fox, then only my Lord Holland’s dashing son, afterwards the greatest of European orators and statesmen.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray
The canopy embroidered with pearl and gold he lies under has no virtue against a violent fit of the colic: “Nee calidae citius decedunt corpore febres Textilibus si in picturis, ostroque rubenti Jactaris, quam si plebeia in veste cubandum est.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
Not a captain dared clear for England.
— from The British Navy in Battle by Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen
Rock bored by Lithotrya nicobarica , showing the row of calcareous discs, copied from Reinhardt.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin
Chronique des Cordeliers , fol. 85, v o .
— from The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 by Anatole France
Steam Shovels and Churn Drills, Copper Flat, Ely, Nevada.
— from The Business of Mining A brief non-technical exposition of the principles involved in the profitable operation of mines by Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph) Hoskin
Colonel Dennison capitulates for the inhabitants....
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall
It is useful and satisfactory to learn that even fluorine in the free state has not succeeded in eluding experiment and research, that the efforts to isolate it have been crowned with success, but the sum total of chemical data concerning fluorine as an element gains but little by this achievement.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
He tossed a curt order to a man whom she could discern crouching forward near the engine.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler
C’est du centre de ces fleurs que l’on voit sortir le fruit; ordinairement il est de la grosseur d’une noix commune d’Europe.
— from Travels in Brazil by Henry Koster
The Estates voted that Darien was a lawful colony, and (1701) in an address to the Crown demanded compensation for the nation’s financial losses.
— from A Short History of Scotland by Andrew Lang
The engineers and their firemen, and all connected with the handling of the trains, certainly deserve credit for performances like these, and they receive it; but the supplying of the perfect machine, the smooth and safe roadway comparatively clear of other trains, and other conditions, is so manifestly beyond their control, while at the same time constituting such an important factor [407] in the result, that praise should be given discriminatingly.
— from The American Railway: Its Construction, Development, Management, and Appliances by Thomas Curtis Clarke
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