la personne du roy —In France the nation is not a corporate body; it resides entirely in the person of the king.
— 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.

Indeed, we afterwards found out that as a general rule the wind set on shore from daybreak for some hours, and off shore again at sunset, and the explanation that I offer of this is, that when the earth is cooled by the dew and the night the hot air rises, and the draught rushes in from the sea till the sun has once more heated it through.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

On entering the drawing room I found that Sir Hugh had not yet made his appearance, and that it would still be a few minutes before we went to dinner.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

If he could, he would doubtless receive instructions from the author.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

These mysteries vary from tribe to tribe, though in almost all of them there is what corresponds to the Death Rite in Freemasonry; that is to say, there is either a symbolical presentation of death in a sacred drama—as there was among the Greeks in their complete initiatory rites—or a state of actual trance imposed upon each neophyte by the priestly initiators.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

They, as before, whatever the beauty around them, whatever the prodigal seasons did, remained immune from thoughts other than those they were accustomed to.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

As already stated, these wandering people are of different races; in fact, they are of nearly all the varieties indigenous to the Asiatic continent; and a whole catalogue of names might be given, of which Mongols, Tartars, Turcomans, Usbecks, Kirghees, and Calmucks, are perhaps the most generally known.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

We merely drove round it from the rear to the front.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Eames and the brothers de Reszke in "Faust," the season was prodigiously successful, the receipts from all sources (including the Sunday night concerts and opera in Philadelphia and Brooklyn) being in the neighborhood of $550,000, and the profits, as I have already said, $150,000.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

It is only if we can separate between religious truth and religious error—only if we can distinguish religion itself from the perversions of religion—that [Pg 9] we can possibly maintain that the evils which have flowed from religious error, from the perversions of religion, are not to be traced to the religious principle itself.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

Mademoiselle de Rosny is fain to hold both her ears, notwithstanding all the sweet things her companion is whispering.
— from Old Court Life in France, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

We are not aware that it existed originally 178.png amongst the Teutonic race, and we have doubtless received it from the Normans.
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting