Disease and wickedness being intimately associated in the popular mind—epileptics and like sufferers being held to be possessed of devils, and even such vulgar ills as warts and wens being considered direct results of some evil deed, suffered or performed—so the waters of Christian baptism which cleansed from sin, cleansed also from disease.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

I got to Turin at the beginning of December, and at Rivoli I found the Corticelli, who had been warned by the Chevalier de Raiberti of my arrival.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Our view, then, cannot be reconciled with that of Plato if he is of opinion that a table or a chair express the Idea of a table or a chair (De Rep., x., pp. 284, 285, et Parmen., p.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Perchè la sua voce... sarebbe un cespite di rendita, via.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

SYN: Source, commencement, spring, cause, derivation, rise, beginning.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Trouver à qui --, rencontrer quelqu'un capable de répondre.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

[149] It is still sometimes denied that we find, in members of a civilised community, a certain depravity rooted in the nature of man; [C] and it might, indeed, be alleged with some show of truth that not an innate corruptness in human nature, but the barbarism of men, the defect of a not yet sufficiently developed culture, is the cause of the evident antipathy to law which their attitude indicates.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

( Choix des Rapports, xii.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The blush of conscious degradation rose to the cheek of the Lincoln hireling as he turned his face away from mine.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

[1566] It dulls the spirits, if overmuch, and senses; fills the head full of gross humours; causeth distillations, rheums, great store of excrements in the brain, and all the other parts, as [1567]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I want to cross de river
— from Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study by Thomas Washington Talley

Noirot, begging him to send it to the Princess Charlotte de Rohan-Rochefort. Lieut.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

The reader may remember, that after Agnes and the portress had left the room, the signora and Lucy had entered into conversation alone; the former continued her questions concerning Don Roderick, with a fearlessness which filled the mind of Lucy with astonishment, little supposing that the curiosity of the nuns ever exercised itself upon such subjects.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

In Paris, in this witty region, ’Tis cold dry reason that now reigns; O bells of folly and religion, How sweetly sound at home your strains!
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

CORTES DREW REIN ONLY AT ITS FOOT
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

It is a fact, that you humbly offered to pledge in their hands the watch, of which the too long, and too much, deluded Cardinal de Rohan made you a present.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton

[Pg 109] Thy love and power, celestial guard, Preserve me from surrounding harms: Can danger reach me, while the Lord Extends his kind protecting arms?
— from A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c. by Unknown

This rule does not prevail on the staircases and in the corridors of office buildings, with the exception, perhaps, of banks and such offices as people of wealth frequent; for a new fineness of courtesy has made men feel that, as women are winning an equality of position in the business field, a delicate way of recognizing that equality is by giving them a comradely deference rather than paying them the social attentions.
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

Montmorency, Anne de, constable of France: favorite of Henry II, 8 ; feud of, with Guises, 18 , 45 , 50 , 73 ; not a party to conspiracy of Amboise 29, n.; holds balance of power after death of Francis II, 72 ; Philip II writes to, 97 ; forms Triumvirate, 98 ; welcomes duke of Guise after massacre of Vassy, 126 ; advises king to repudiate responsibility for Vassy, 137 ; organizes Paris, 137 ; over-rules Catherine de Medici, 139 ; charged with corrupt practice, 141 ; begins to weaken, 141 ; proposes to petition the Pope for aid, 143 ; Condé demands retirement of, 150 ; fears English intervention, 162 ; captured at battle of Dreux, 179 ; imprisonment of, 182 ; endeavors to make a settlement, 183 ; destruction of house of, plotted by Guises, 255 ; quarrel with cardinal of Lorraine, 289 ; protest in favor of Cardinal Châtillon, 289 ; anger of, at Guises, 290 ; quits court, 290 ; avarice of, 296 ; rash reply of, 319 ; lieutenant-general, 331 ; killed at battle of St. Denis, 332 .
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson