[Captain Gill writes ( River of Golden Sand , I. p. 111): "This country around Urh-Chuang is admirably described [in Marco Polo , pp.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
And the success with which nuptial estrangements are depicted in modern “problem plays” is due to the fact that there is only one thing that a drama cannot depict—that is a hard day’s work.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
SYN: Breed, generate, produce, originate, spread, extend, expand, disseminate, diffuse, increase, multiply, promulgate, propound, broach.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Io spero che domani il mio padre potra uscir di casa.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
DECLENSIONS THIRD DECLENSION dênsus invîsus mîrus paucî prîmus prîstinus pûblicus secundus tantus vêrus âcer, âcris, âcre brevis, breve difficilis, difficile facîlis, facile fortis, forte gravis, grave incolumis, incolume omnis, omne pâr, pâr vêlôx, vêlôx Pronouns PERSONAL DEMONSTRATIVE INTENSIVE INDEFINITE ego nôs suî tû vôs hic îdem ille iste ipse aliquis, aliquî quîdam quis, quî quisquam quisque Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions nê ... quidem ôlim paene quoque satis vêrô itaque nisi ante post propter Verbs CONJ.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
in fidem venīre rēs , rēs gestae rēs adversae rēs pūblica rēs secundae spēs nihil Adjectives FIRST AND SECOND DECLENSIONS THIRD DECLENSION dēnsus invīsus mīrus paucī prīmus prīstinus pūblicus secundus tantus vērus ācer, ācris, ācre brevis, breve difficilis, difficile facīlis, facile fortis, forte gravis, grave incolumis, incolume omnis, omne pār, pār vēlōx, vēlōx Pronouns PERSONAL DEMONSTRATIVE INTENSIVE INDEFINITE ego nōs suī tū vōs hic īdem ille iste ipse aliquis, aliquī quīdam quis, quī quisquam quisque Adverbs Conjunctions Prepositions nē ... quidem ōlim paene quoque satis vērō itaque nisi ante post propter Verbs CONJ.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
And the Lollards, by their examinations and testimonies, are found to have witnessed against the exercise of their power, and sometimes against the very nature of their power itself: so in their practice they condemned prelacy as well as popery, in that their ministers did in much painfulness, poverty, simplicity, humility, and equality, observe the institution of our Lord.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields
But you shall read the narrative, with all its details, in my private papers."
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds
"He has a great name down in my parts," put in the farmer.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
A copious Hæmorrhage from the Nose, Mouth, or Ears, the last especially, coming on after the Disease has continued three or four Days, or longer, is a dangerous Phænomenon : For at this time of the Distemper, it most probably proceeds from the Branch of an Artery destroy'd by the Mortification, and laid open by the Separation of the Slough.
— from An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers A Disease Which Hath of Late Years Appeared in This City, and in Several Parts of the Nation by John Fothergill
By this time I had pretty well settled down into my proper place, had ceased to be the butt of the other midshipmen; and, having a real liking for my duties, had learned to perform them pretty satisfactorily.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood
This "fact" can be regarded as of value only by ignoring the fact demonstrated in my previous paper, that natural science does not confirm the order asserted so far as living things are concerned; and by upsetting a fact to be brought to light presently, to wit, that, in regard to the rest of the pentateuchal cosmogony, prudent science has very little to say one way or the other.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley
The same day or the next, I will travel to the address written down in my pocketbook, pick you up at the admiral’s, and take you on to London with me to get the license.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins
I had no manner of doubt that the girl would do even as she had said, out of duty, though I believed that she held me in no disfavour in my proper person.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang
The outer walls and bastions as well as the inner ones, are broken down in many places, part of the castle has fallen in, and the whole is in a ruinous condition.
— from A Noble Queen: A Romance of Indian History (Volume 2 of 3) by Meadows Taylor
Afterwards, being again at sea in 1762, I first observed the wonderful quietness of oil on agitated water, in the swinging glass lamp I made to hang up in the cabin, as described in my printed papers.
— from Inventors by Philip Gengembre Hubert
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