This answer Mr. Holcroft much disapproved of; but like a true friend he replied, "Seeing you cannot be altered, I will change my purpose, and yield unto you.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It was a fine day and the building was gay with decorations of banners, lanterns and flowers.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

His sword was not of Valentia, nor his dagger of Saragossa, for his father could not endure these hidalgos borrachos maranisados como diablos: but he had a fair sword made of wood, and the dagger of boiled leather, as well painted and gilded as any man could wish.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

We need not a whale, elephant, or a crocodile, nor any such-like animals, of which one alone is sufficient to dispatch a great number of men, to do our business; lice are sufficient to vacate Sylla’s dictatorship; and the heart and life of a great and triumphant emperor is the breakfast of a little contemptible worm!
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

No doubt organic beings, like all other objects, can be classed in many ways, either artificially by single characters, or more naturally by a number of characters.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Windermere The Duchess of Berwick Lady Agatha Carlisle Lady Plymdale Lady Stutfield Lady Jedburgh Mrs. Cowper-Cowper Mrs. Erlynne Rosalie, Maid THE SCENES OF THE PLAY Act I. Morning-room in Lord Windermere’s house .
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

Management und Gewerkschaft industrial relations Beziehungen zur Gemeinde cummunity relations Beziehungen zur Gemeinde municipal relations Beziehungen zur Öffentlichkeit; Werbung public relations Beziehungen; Verwandtschaft relations Beziehungspflege public relations beziehungsweise as the case may be Bezirk borough Bezirksstelle; Zweigstelle district office Bezirksvertreter local agent bezogene Bank bank drawn upon Bezogener drawee Bezogener payer
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

334 and note 176 .] 16 [A Lithuanian dish of beet leaves and cream, served with ice.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

In the second group, accordingly, comes the Nemesis, in the civil wars of the Roses, reaching their catastrophe in the downfall of both Lancaster and York, and the tyranny of Gloucester.
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Manuscript Diaries of Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth.
— from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc

Accounts of the death of the Princess Charlotte and of the executions for high treason at Derby of Brandreth, Ludlam and Turner, after a horrible imprisonment, two articles in The Examiner of November 9, 1819, inspired Shelley’s Address to the People on the Death of the Princess Charlotte , sometimes known as We Pity the Plumage, but Forget the Dying Bird , dated November 12 of the same year.
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

The cutting off of woods and forests is an important factor in the decrease of bird life, as well as upon the climate of the country.
— from Bird Guide: Land Birds East of the Rockies, from Parrots to Bluebirds by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

He died three years after, deservedly lamented both in his profession and by the country.—E. 309 The Duke of Bedford left an interesting account of this negotiation in his private journal.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

O no (quoth Maister Chappelet ) doe not terme it a small fault, because Sunday being a holy day, is highly to be reverenced: for, as on that day, our blessed Lord arose from death to life.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

An allied army superior in force and in a strong position, under the duke of Brunswick, lay at Keyserslautern.
— from Historic Bubbles by Frederic Leake

by Philip Hofer; designer of binding: Leroy Appelton.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

The Germans had a wholesome dread of British landships, a fear based solely upon hearsay since none of these had previously seen a Tank.
— from To the Fore with the Tanks! by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman