—Whatever originates in the stomach, the intestines, the beating of the heart, the nerves, the bile, the seed—all those indispositions, debilities, irritations, and the whole contingency of that machine about which we know so little—a Christian like Pascal considers it all as a moral and religious phenomenon, asking himself whether God or the [pg 087] devil, good or evil, salvation or damnation, is the cause.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We were banged against sharp corners, loaded porters, camels, and citizens generally; and we were so taken up with looking out for collisions and casualties that we had no chance to look about us at all.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Come, Lieutenant Pistol; come, Bardolph.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
So the child went into the forest, and there an aged woman met her who was aware of her sorrow, and presented her with a little pot, which when she said, "Cook, little pot, cook," would cook good, sweet porridge, and when she said, "Stop, little pot," it ceased to cook.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
The cook laid poison cunningly, And then as sore oppressed was he As if he had love in his bosom.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
parclos , pp., closed completely; Lat. per + clausum .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Crecían los pleitos con la amenazadora presteza de una enfermedad 25 fulminante.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Estiróse en la cama, desperezándose con la placentera convulsión de quien
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
He took a little house for her, called La Pallue, close to, and overlooking, Hauteville House.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud
The departments of Santa Barbara, Copan, Cortez, La Paz, Choluteca, and El Paraiso have the principal plantations.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
others, even of candid listeners, perhaps, could not; it was through that imperishable grandeur of soul which taught her to submit meekly and without a struggle to her punishment, but taught her not to submit—no, not for a moment—to calumny as to facts, or to misconstruction as to motives.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
Captain Lewis paid Charboneau five hundred dollars, loaded Sacajawea with what gifts he could, and left them in the Mandan country.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye
When we left the castle, Mary wore under her riding habit a suit of man's attire, and, as we rode along, she would shrug her shoulders and laugh as if it were a huge joke; and by the most comical little pantomime, call my attention to her unusual bulk.
— from When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major
D'Apollon reçois cette lyre, Pour chanter au sacré vallon; Dans tes mains même on pourra dire, C'est toujours cette d'Apollon!"
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various
I believe it was the drug used in the celebrated Lamson poison case,” replied the physician slowly.
— from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
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