In their remote apartments, Dauphin and Dauphiness stand road-ready; all grooms and equerries booted and spurred: waiting for some signal to escape the house of pestilence.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
This gave me so much ease, that I began to recover a little life, but so leisurely and by so small advances, that my first sentiments were much nearer the approaches of death than life: “Perche, dubbiosa ancor del suo ritorno, Non s’assicura attonita la mente.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
p. 13,) and the doge Andrew Dandolo, (Scriptores Rer. Ital.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
He wrote "Wörterverzeichniss zu Homer," Leipzig, 1860; "Homerische Kritik von Wolf bis Grote," Berlin, 1853; "Darstellungen aus der Sittengeschichte Roms," 3 vols., 1862-71, in which his Christian principles especially appear.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein
The next day, at dusk, she received a visit from Monsieur Lherueux, the draper.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
At noon Sir W. Pen dined with me, and after dinner he and I and my wife to the Theatre, and went in, but being very early we went out again to the next door, and drank some Rhenish wine and sugar, and so to the House again, and there saw “Rule a Wife and have a Wife” very well done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
"Next day the Germans tried to pursue us across the Aisne, but our artillery repulsed two determined attacks, decimating several regiments, which were forced to retreat to Moncel."
— from Stories and Letters from the Trenches by Various
Declining fiscal deficits, tapering debt and debt service ratios, and increased spending on infrastructure and social services bolstered optimism over Philippine economic prospects.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
So pleasant, nevertheless, was this little make-believe interior that we rarely entered for a rehearsal without discovering and disturbing sundry reading animals who had crept into it as a quiet and congenial environment, and who frequently and regretfully suggested that it would be desirable as a permanency.
— from A Captive at Carlsruhe and Other German Prison Camps by Joseph Lee
One of his works, written at age fifteen and entitled "Spring Finery," demonstrates a delicate sensibility reminiscent of John Keats: How many passions cling to this wanderer's sleeves?
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover
These towns of Darien are destroyed; some ruins scattered on the hills of Uraba, the fruit-trees of Europe mixed with native trees, are all that mark to the traveller the spots on which those towns once stood.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Alexander von Humboldt
Marr was cruel to dogs, and dogs showed rage and terror when the new Valentine approached them.
— from Flames by Robert Hichens
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