They told me they trusted and confided their honour and good name to my virtue and rectitude alone, and bade me consider the disparity between Don Fernando and myself, from which I might conclude that his intentions, whatever he might say to the contrary, had for their aim his own pleasure rather than my advantage; and if I were at all desirous of opposing an obstacle to his unreasonable suit, they were ready, they said, to marry me at once to anyone I preferred, either among the leading people of our own town, or of any of those in the neighbourhood; for with their wealth and my good name, a match might be looked for in any quarter.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When by dint of blows, pinches, dashes of water, crosses, and the application of sacred palms, the girl recovered and remembered the situation, silent tears sprang from her eyes, drop by drop, without sobs, without laments, without complaints!
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Truth lies open to the view in depth beneath depth of almost blinding evidence.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

"But look you, my son," persisted the good man, "this act hath rank as robbery of God!" "Nay, nay, good father, my master the king doth but deliver him from the manifold temptations of too great wealth.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

There is a great difference between disciples and true disciples.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

This took us over several ditches breast deep in water and grown up with water plants.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

View larger image After this work, and after making some sculptures in marble for [Pg 193] the Madonna that is on the abutment of the Ponte Vecchio, with great honour for himself, he left his brother Bernardo to execute by himself a Hell in the Campo Santo, which is described by Dante, and which was afterwards spoilt in the year 1530 and restored by Sollazzino, a painter of our own times; and he returned to Florence, where, in the middle of the Church of S. Croce, on a very great wall on the right, he painted in fresco the same subjects that he painted in the Campo Santo of Pisa, in three similar pictures, excepting, however, the scene where S. Macarius is showing to three Kings the misery of man, and the life of the hermits who are serving God on that mountain.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

It also came to pass, according as God had foretold, that some of Jeroboam's kindred that died in the city were torn to pieces and devoured by dogs, and that others of them that died in the fields were torn and devoured by the fowls.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

But on the one hand, a sense, half serious, haft languid, of the hopelessness of the subject has produced an indisposition to meddle with it; on the other, there has been a creditable reluctance to disturb by discussion the minds of the uneducated or half-educated, to whom the established religion is simply an expression of the obedience which they owe to Almighty God, on the details of which they think little, and are therefore unconscious of its difficulties, while in general it is the source of all that is best and noblest in their lives and actions.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

See that he and his wife and children are supplied with meat and drink, but do not let him know who provides it."
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt by Lewis Spence

179 sq. Beckford (the father), 271 note Beckford (the son), xix Bedford Row Conspiracy, The , 294 Bédier, M., xiii Bel-Ami , 486 sq. Belinda , 419 note Bélisaire , 562 Beljame, M., 347 note Belle-Rose , 320 , 321 Belot, Adolphe (1829-1890), 516 , 517 Benson, Mr. E. F., 537 note Béranger, 41 note , 60 Bernard (Charles de Bernard du Grail de la Villette, 1805-1850), v , 208 , 237 , [Pg 578] 240 , 281 , 289 -296, 306 , 317 , 343 , 569 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, 18 , 22 , 101 Bertrand, Louis [or Aloysius] Jacques Napoléon (1807-1841), 82 , 228 Bevis of Hampton , 124 Beyle, Marie Henri (1783-1842), vi , 133 -152, 169 , 273 , 336 , 343 , 348 , 356 , 363 , 396 , 559 Bismarck, 559 note Blake, 10 note , 188 , 281 , 317 , 318 and note , 479 , 527 Blennerhassett, Lady, 8 Bohême Galante, La , 257 sq. Bookman's Budget, A , 488 note Borel, Pierre or Pétrus d'Hauterive (1809-1859), 322 , 371 , 453 Borrow, G., 238 , 256 , 436 note Bossuet, 37 note Boswell, xix Boule de Suif , 468 , 473 , 485 sq. Bourget, M. P., 554 Bouvard et Pécuchet , 401 note and sq. Bovary, Madame , 400 sq. Braddon, Miss, 205 , 457 Bradlaugh, Mr.,
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

The hierarchy descended by due degrees from the chief priests, who were almost equal to the sovereign in authority, down to the humble ecclesiastical servitors.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

"Do, but don't let him know it.
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer

Of the descendants of the Miss Roelans, who married Mr. Joseph Little, several are living in a good social position; but the Dutch blood does not seem to have passed into the collateral branches of Moores, Buckles, and other well-known families who have intermarried with the Littles.
— from The Depot for Prisoners of War at Norman Cross, Huntingdonshire. 1796 to 1816 by Thomas (Thomas James) Walker

La Via Delle Belle Donne 219 The Wizard with Red Teeth 221 Orpheus and Eurydice 225 Intialo: the Spirit of the Haunting Shadow 237 Cain and his Worshippers 254 page 1 p. 1 THE THREE HORNS OF MESSER GUICCIARDINI “More plenty than the fabled horn Thrice emptied could pour forth at banqueting.”
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland

145 Ueber Resorption und Secretion im Magen, und deren Beeinflussung durch Arzneimittel.
— from On Digestive Proteolysis Being the Cartwright Lectures for 1894 by R. H. (Russell Henry) Chittenden

Donn brown , dubh black —dubh-dhonn dark-brown .
— from Elements of Gaelic Grammar by Alexander Stewart