she prayed, "immortal Aphrodite, high enthroned child of Zeus, my queen, my goddess, my patron, at whose shrine I have daily laid my offerings, to be now my friend, the friend of my brother!" Then to her brother she said: "O Creon, go to the cellar beneath our house.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[710] We say that this derivation is sometimes indirect on account of the industrial methods which, in a large number of cases, seem to be derived from religion through the intermediacy of magic (see Hubert and Mauss, Théorie générale de la Magie , Année Sociol. ,
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

"At dawn Lahiri Mahasaya glanced at me consolingly.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Fiammetta, whose locks were curled and long and golden and fell over her white and delicate shoulders and whose soft-rounded face was all resplendent with white lilies and vermeil roses commingled, with two eyes in her head as they were those of a peregrine falcon and a dainty little mouth, the lips whereof seemed twin rubies, answered, smiling, "And I, Filostrato, I take it willingly, and that thou mayst be the better cognizant of that which thou hast done, I presently will and command that each prepare to discourse to-morrow of THAT
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Modern psychology, unfortunately, does not study these problems, and in any event, its task is so enormous that the practical problems of memory in the daily life must be set aside for a later time.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He was the ami de la maison—old Sedley's friend, Emmy's friend, Georgy's friend, Jos's counsel and adviser.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

et reſpondeuão li comincio dire coſe per indurli ala fede: Domando q a L dopo la morte deL re ſuccedeſſe aLa s a .
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

à 40 km de là, mais c'était une personne située de l'autre côté de la planète qui m'aidait.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de la Marine Française, p. 184.)
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Sprengal, K. P. J. Histoire de la médecine depuis son origine jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle, 8 vols., Paris, 1815-1820.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

The urgent solicitations of Treslong, however, prevailed, with some difficulty, over De la Marck' original intentions.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) by John Lothrop Motley

and you do love me!
— from Indian Summer by William Dean Howells

though we were the only passengers; and on the way I made a little, soft song, the burden of which was: "I do love my table d'hôte, but
— from Nights in London by Thomas Burke

By Louis Énault $0.50 DEAR LITTLE MARCHIONESS.
— from Dick in the Desert by James Otis

"Let slapin' dogs lie, me boy.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker

Do let me take the other parcels.
— from Just William by Richmal Crompton