ciascun tra 'l mento e 'l principio del casso; che' da le reni era tornato 'l volto, e in dietro venir li convenia, perche' 'l veder dinanzi era lor tolto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Consulted as to the shagreen, the enlargement of which was so passionately desired by Raphael de Valentin, Lavrille could do nothing more than talk on the subject and sent the young man to Planchette, the professor of mechanics.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

While much enlightenment may be got from carefully describing the substance of a philosophic doctrine, very little can be gained by merely affixing to it a label; and I could not but feel that my argument would be simply encumbered by the introduction of any question of nomenclature involving such a vague and uninstructive epithet as "pantheism."
— from The Idea of God as Affected by Modern Knowledge by John Fiske

LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE Lady Clara Vere de Vere, Of me you shall not win renown: You thought to break a country heart For pastime, ere you went to town.
— from Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry

South Sea churches, with one or two happy exceptions, are blots in a world of beauty, monuments of bad taste, extravagance, and folly, that do very little credit to the religions they represent.
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw

We had not been warned of this, however, and the result was that some of our men, who had weakened their systems with poisonous liquor, fell victims to some disease very like cholera, which in two cases proved fatal within twenty-four hours.
— from In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith

However, he thought the end justified the means; and certain it is that it drew very large congregations.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

"C'est ici qu'elle dormait; voilà le cabinet où elle écrivait ses lettres; c'est ici qu'elle prisait ses belles idées."
— from Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 by John Hughes

He has done very little cross-examining to-day, but that may be part of his method.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

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— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

In speaking of New Caledonia Baron L. de Vaux (L. de Vaux, “Les Canaques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie,” Rev. d’Ethnog. , ii., 1883, p. 340) says, “formerly the women of Pouébo, Oubatche, and Pam had the monopoly; now the art tends more and more to disappear as the natives find it more practical to buy trade vessels.
— from Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs by Alfred C. (Alfred Cort) Haddon