[10] Messire Jean, the son of Thibault, is mentioned in the accounts of the latter in the Chambre des Comptes at Paris, as having been with his Father in Romania.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Nam in hoc quod patres corrupti sunt, generant filios corruptae complexionis, et compositionis, et filii eorum eadem de causa se corrumpunt, et sic derivatur corruptio a patribus ad filios.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

—Ese hecho produjo una crisis económica profunda en tales labores; pero dió al gobierno la oportunidad de poner en práctica un plan de colonización agrícola para atraer al inmigrante europeo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But let us take a decided course, and put an end to any discomfort you may be suffering.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This will obviously give a different result for different states of society and different callings and professions; as most people need this instinctive courage less in civilised societies than in semi-barbarous ones, and civilians less than soldiers.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

This was the battle in which they say that the Dioscuri, Castor and Pollux, appeared, and immediately after the battle were soon in the Forum at Rome announcing the victory, with their horses dripping with sweat, at the spot where now there is a temple built in their honour beside the fountain.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

This defect, common amongst princes, arises from their education, which places them above the politeness which is considered necessary in ordinary mortals.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

fluctuate, dance, curvet, reel, quake; quiver, quaver; shake, flicker; wriggle; roll, toss, pitch; flounder, stagger, totter; move up and down, bob up and down &c. Adv.; pass and repass, ebb and flow, come and go; vacillate &c. 605; teeter [U.S.].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"For the hussy itsell," she said, "was a very valuable thing for a keepsake, with the Queen's name written in the inside with her ain hand doubtless— Caroline —as plain as could be, and a crown drawn aboon it.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

It is to him that Hungary owes the bridge uniting its double capital at Pesth, and that Europe owes the unimpeded navigation of the Danube, which he first rendered possible by the destruction of the rocks known as the Iron Gates at Orsova.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

There was, lurking about, in the darker corners and passages, a feeling almost of dread, uncomfortable to meet.
— from San Cristóbal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

(To this Book, edited for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, widow of his old publisher, Dickens contributed a preface and the opening story, the Lamplighter .)
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

Unable to overcome the deadlock, Chile and Peru agreed in 1913 to postpone the settlement for twenty years longer.
— from The Hispanic Nations of the New World: A Chronicle of Our Southern Neighbors by William R. (William Robert) Shepherd

But we will not weary the reader with any more of the chit-chat of the latter days of Henry VIII., now drawing near his end, furious as a wild beast at the slightest contradiction, worshipped by his courtiers on bended knee, and putting to the death Catholic and Protestant alike, if they varied from the doctrines stated in the “King’s Boke.”
— from The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

Very frequently, even in the midst of her multifarious engagements, her thoughts wandered off to the little grave in Barking burying-ground, where rested the remains of the dear child, and, perchance, a tenderer tone crept into her voice as she dealt with the outcast children of prisons and reformatories.
— from Elizabeth Fry by Emma Raymond Pitman

Other memoirs pretend, on the contrary, that these officers would have persuaded Mahomet to fall upon this feeble and half-starved army, in a weak and distressed condition, and put all to the sword.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire