Francisco Lopez de Gomara, in his account of this battle, says, that previous to the arrival of Cortes with the cavalry, the holy apostle St. Jacob or St. Peter in person had galloped up on a gray-coloured horse to [Pg 77] our assistance.
— 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

Love mocks our senses, curbs our liberties, And doth bewitch us with his art and rings, I think some devil gets into our entrails, And kindles coals, and heaves our souls from th'hinges.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Makatarungánun ang Diyus, God is just.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

that all the World for him A gorgeous-coloured vestiture must wear, And Sorrow take a purple diadem, Or else be no more Sorrow, and Despair Gild its own thorns, and Pain, like Adon, be Even in anguish beautiful;—such is the empery p. 33 Which Painters hold, and
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Antiquity, I believe, thought to put a compliment upon, and to add something to, the divine grandeur in assimilating it to man, investing it with his faculties, and adorning it with his ugly humours and most shameful necessities; offering it our aliments to eat, presenting it with our dances, mummeries, and farces, to divert it; with our vestments to cover it, and our houses to inhabit, coaxing it with the odour of incense and the sounds of music, with festoons and nosegays; and to accommodate it to our vicious passions, flattering its justice with inhuman vengeance, and with the ruin and dissipation of things by it created and preserved as Tiberius Sempronius, who burnt the rich spoils and arms he had gained from the enemy in Sardinia for a sacrifice to Vulcan; and Paulus milius, those of Macedonia, to Mars and Minerva; and Alexander, arriving at the Indian Ocean, threw several great vessels of gold into the sea, in honour of Thetes; and moreover loading her altars with a slaughter not of innocent beasts only, but of men also, as several nations, and ours among the rest, were commonly used to do; and I believe there is no nation under the sun that has not done the same:— Sulmone creatos Quatuor hc juvenes, totidem quos educat Ufens, Viventes rapit, inferias quos immolet umbris.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Every man who commits suicide,” returned the doctor gravely, “is in my opinion insane, or, what is nearly the same thing, becomes through suffering an irresponsible agent.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

During the anxious days which followed the battle of the Wilderness, Frank B. Carpenter, the artist, relates that he asked President Lincoln, “How does Grant impress you as compared with other generals?”
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

"No, no," he said, hurriedly; "this dear girl is doing violence to all her feelings but one, in venturing to such a place.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

I sent to England specimens of five different gums in order that they might be examined.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

Selam rose with a mortified air, and repeated the answer into the ear of the intendant, who gave us the coup de grâce in the following words: An Interview With The Grand Vizier.
— from Morocco, Its People and Places by Edmondo De Amicis

"Sire," said the Duc de Guise, "I have just been paying a visit to my sister-in-law, Madame de Condé."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

The defiance given, I do not choose to interfere; but this once over, I will permit these things no longer: we thus lose some of our best officers and bravest soldiers, without the slightest advantage to our cause."
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I admit that this theory applies to savages and to Orientals; the details given in the preceding pages prove that.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

With reference to this story Brantôme writes as follows in the Sixth Discourse of his Vies des Dames Galantes :— “In the hundred stories of Queen Margaret of Navarre we have a very fine tale of that lady of Milan who, having one night given an assignation to the late M. de Bonnivet, afterwards Admiral of France, posted her maids with drawn swords on the stairs so that they might make a noise there; which they did right well, in obedience to the orders of their mistress, who for her part feigned great affright, saying that her brothers-in-law must have remarked something amiss, that she herself was lost, and that he, Bonnivet, ought to hide under the bed or behind the hangings.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre