In the Report of the Loyal and Patriotic Society of Upper Canada, we have an entry made of a donation of sixty dollars to Mr. Andrew Borland on the 11th June, 1813, with the note appended: "The committee of the Loyal and Patriotic Society voted this sum to Mr. Borland for his patriotic and eminent services at Detroit, Queenston and York, at which latter place he was severely wounded."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

We could with equal might oppose A four-fold army led by foes.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

All' ei kakeinos esigêsen, hêmeis ou siôpêsomen; ismen gar, hôs ouk endechetai parelthonta tên Hippokrateion doxan, eith' heteron ti peri nephrôn energeias eiponta mê ou katagelaston einai pantapasi.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

En mauvaise odeur —In bad repute.
— 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.

In the meantime, every minute of delay gained was valuable.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

In the fourth century of our era Marcellus of Bordeaux prescribed a cure for warts, which has still a great vogue among the superstitious in various parts of Europe.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Anúgun sa ímung nawung, I expected more of you.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Caroli incluti et fortissimi Burgundie duds exercitus Muratum obsidens, ab Helvetiis cesus, hoc sui monumentum reliquit anno MCDLXXVI.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

590 The place he found beyond expression bright, Compar'd with aught on Earth, Medal or Stone; Not all parts like, but all alike informd With radiant light, as glowing Iron with fire; If mettal, part seemd Gold, part Silver cleer; If stone, Carbuncle most or Chrysolite, Rubie or Topaz, to the Twelve that shon In Aarons Brest-plate, and a stone besides Imagind rather oft then elsewhere seen, That stone, or like to that which here below 600 Philosophers in vain so long have sought, In vain, though by thir powerful Art they binde Volatil Hermes, and call up unbound In various shapes old Proteus from the Sea, Draind through a Limbec to his Native forme.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

But if there is some great waste that co-operation will prevent, as where seven milk wagons drive every morning over the same route, or where the market of perishable crops is glutted one day and starved the next, centralization, corporate or co-operate, will pay.
— from The Dollar Hen by Milo Hastings

He was pale, and exhibited marks of bruises on his [Pg 230] face, while over one eye was a scarcely healed cut.
— from Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison

They naturally read the precedents furnished by Greece and Rome; but they were also powerfully affected by the living realities of the federal republics of Holland and Switzerland, as well as in the aristocratic republic of Venice, while in the one nearest England many of them were educated.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis

On examination, the can proved to contain oil, with the trifling addition of nitro-glycerine; but no research disclosed a trace of either man or lantern.
— from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson

Every member of the band, except two, was loafing around the lodges hopelessly and helplessly doing nothing, and miserably giving the matter up.
— from Two Arrows: A Story of Red and White by William O. Stoddard

Now, do these stories give us only a materialistic view of the spirit world held by early man, or can we also trace in them a reminiscence of a pre-Celtic race of small stature?
— from Ulster Folklore by Andrews, Elizabeth, F.R.A.I.

I was not clear that these professions could be made to agree with the speech in which Kenna had promised a hundred hides of land to every man on the ship; but on my making this remark, the three chiefs seemed very surprised and hurt by my suspicions, and explained very plausibly that, [95] as the Britons needed them as a guard, they could not aid them better than by settling on the soil, and so being continually at hand in order to help them.
— from The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Arthur Conan Doyle

[184] On the Monday evening, masters of several arrondissements, they still trembled, fearful of some terrible surprise.
— from History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagaray