He began with our departure from Cuba, mentioned all the fatigues we had undergone up to that moment, and then continued: "You are perfectly aware, gentlemen, that the governor of Cuba did appoint me captain-general of the armament, though many cavaliers among you were equally deserving of it; you must also remember that you left Cuba with the supposition you were going to found a colony in this country.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Detail for Court martial Segt.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

SYN: Untrue, erroneous, fallacious, sophistical, spurious, deceptive, fabrication, counterfeit, mendacious, sham, mock, bogus, unfaithful, fib, falsity, fiction, dishonorable, faithless.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Qu'on parle bien ou mal du fameux cardinal, / Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien; / Il m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, / Il m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien —Let the world speak well or ill of the famous cardinal, neither in my prose or verse will I mention his name; he has done me too much kindness to speak ill of him, and too much injury to speak well.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Θυγάτριον, ίου, τό, a little daughter, female child, Mar. 5.23; 7.25.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Shall I own to you, that, however I may differ from Captain Mirvan in other respects, yet my opinion of the town, its manners, inhabitants, and diversions, is much upon upon a level with his own?
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Of the knowledge and virtues of the very diamond After the departing from Cornaa, men enter into the land of Job that is a full fair country and a plenteous of all goods.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The priests, for instance, in the first place; for these are to be considered as very different from civil magistrates: to these we may add the choregi and heralds; nay, even ambassadors are elected: there are some civil employments which belong to the citizens; and these are either when they are all engaged in one thing, as when as soldiers they obey their general, or when part of them only are, as in governing the women or educating the youth; and also some economic, for they often elect corn-meters: others are servile, and in which, if they are rich, they employ slaves.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

But Oak had found himself so occupied, and was full of so many cares relative to those portions of Boldwood's flocks that were not disposed of, that Bathsheba, without telling Oak or anybody, resolved to drive home herself, as she had many times done from Casterbridge Market, and trust to her good angel for performing the journey unmolested.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

[270] ve transferred to type many of his editorials without the intervention of pen and paper, composing directly from copy mentally furnished.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

You can use your debates for constructive material as well as for criticism.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

This interpreter proved to be the young man from my company who had deserted from Cantonment Miller about sixteen months before to join the Indians.
— from Ten years in the ranks, U.S. Army by Augustus Meyers

'My dear Fanny,' continued my mother, 'in sober seriousness you have been most fortunate in engaging the affections of a nobleman such as Lord Glenfallen, young and wealthy, with first-rate—yes, acknowledged FIRST-RATE abilities, and of a family whose influence is not exceeded by that of any in Ireland.
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

[37] Cil de France crient Montjoie .
— from Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Thirteenth Century by John Hewitt

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— from Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 by Various

Dr. Hatch's is not scientific historical reasoning, but the exercise of what Bishop Butler well designates, that delusive faculty called man's imagination and fancy.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

Therefore, it is possible an apology is due for continuing my descriptions of the Holy Land.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

By how much unexpected, by so much We must awake endeavour for defence; For courage mounteth with occasion: Let them be welcome, then; we are prepar'd.
— from King John by William Shakespeare