Lauretta Boccaccio probably intends us to look upon as a learned lady, if, as we may suppose, her name is a corruption of laureata , laurel-crowned; whilst Neifile's name (Greek νεῖος [ νεός ] new, and φιλέω , I love, i.e. novelty-loving) stamps her as being of a somewhat curious disposition, eager "to tell or to hear some new thing."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Jos went in a collapsed state to an inn, while Captain Dobbin escorted the ladies, and then busied himself in freeing Jos's carriage and luggage from the ship and the custom-house, for Mr. Jos was at present without a servant, Osborne's man and his own pampered menial having conspired together at Chatham, and refused point-blank to cross the water.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

2. The Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages [299] So early as the year 1374, assemblages of men and women were seen at Aix-la-Chapelle who had come out of Germany and who, united by one common delusion, exhibited to the public both in the streets and in the churches the following strange spectacle.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Emploi du café décaféiné en thérapeutique.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

would you consent to see this beautiful home in ashes and this fruitful orchard destroyed?" "Yes!" answered Sister Carrington, with heroic resolution, "I would not only consent to it, but I would set fire to my home with my own hands, and cut down every tree, and root up every plant!" Coupled with this will be repeated the dramatic incident of Governor Cumming's wife weeping over the scene of the deserted city after the community had partly executed their resolution.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

A series of facts which have been collected under the title of irradiation , and which show that brightly-lighted surfaces appear larger than they are in reality, and that the dark surfaces which surround them appear diminished to a corresponding degree, explains this by the circumstance that the luminous sensation is not proportional to the intensity of the objective light.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

If I consecrated all but my money to the Lord, I might fear, for it would not bring happiness with it, but God's grace can dim even the shining of gold to the Christian, so that neither the eye nor the heart may be held by it."
— from 'Our Guy' or, The elder brother by Boyd, E. E., Mrs.

B, C, D, E] two lines, wood, her .
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher

The old mansion-like inn is familiar, if not indeed endeared, to everyone who has sojourned upon the green shores of wooded Windermere, and in the old coaching days, ere the shrill whistle of the locomotive had awoke the echoes in those peace-breathing valleys, it was as much in favour with the turtle doves and as much sought after by the votaries of Hymen as the "Low Wood" is at the present time.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

O, then, by day Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough To mask thy monstrous visage?
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare

B, C, D, E] two lines ending you and King .
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher

But you can do every thing for yourself.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

The principal roads at Rome seem to have been lined with sepulcres for a considerable distance, especially the Appian, the “Regina Viarum,” as it is termed by Statius.
— from Roman Sepulchral Inscriptions Their Relation to Archæology, Language, and Religion by John Kenrick

B, C, D, E] two lines, doe, suffer .
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher