There is not any thing wherein the world is so various as in laws and customs; such a thing is abominable here which is elsewhere in esteem, as in Lacedemon dexterity in stealing; marriages between near relations, are capitally interdicted amongst us; they are elsewhere in honour:— Gentes esse ferantur, In quibus et nato genitrix, et nata parenti Jungitur, et pietas geminato crescit amore; “There are some nations in the world, ‘tis said, Where fathers daughters, sons their mothers wed; And their affections thereby higher rise, More firm and constant by these double ties;” the murder of infants, the murder of fathers, the community of wives, traffic of robberies, license in all sorts of voluptuousness; in short, there is nothing so extreme that is not allowed by the custom of some nation or other.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne
My expenses now greatly exceeded not only my former income, but those additions which I extorted from my poor generous father, on pretences of sums being necessary for preparing for my approaching degree of batchelor of arts.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
against, opposite Erbyniad, n. a receiving Erbyniwr, n. a receiver Erch, n. dark brown, or dun: a. dusky, dun: dismal Erchi, to ask, to demand Erchlais, n. a dismal noise Erchlias, n. raven grey Erchliw, n. a dun colour Erchryn, a. agitating, quaking Erchryniad, n. agitating Erchrynu, v. to agitate Erchwyn, n. a side or stead Erchwynedig, a. transitive Erchwyniad, n. transition Erchwynio, v. to make a transit Erchwys, n. a pack of hounds Erchyll, a. ghastly, horrible Erchylldod, n. ghastliness Erchyllrwydd, n. frightfulness Erchyllu, v. to make gastly Erchynu, v. to uplift Erchywynu, v. to transmigrate Erdolygu, v. to beseech Erdd, n. impulse, forward: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards
de la eſtate nõ ge e nocte et ſe glie ne he poche et coſſi
— 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
[90] en nieuw gevaar -> een nieuw gevaar.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf
He took off his old duds, put on a blue velvet robe; and then there was nothing handsome enough, nothing good enough, nothing expensive enough for him.
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau
"Easy now, Griffin, easy now.
— from Charred Wood by Kelley, Francis Clement, Bp.
People who had continued entirely neutral, grew exceedingly nervous.
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg
Nothin' else never gev 'er no high-strikes only talkin' to 'er about 'er father.
— from Aylwin by Theodore Watts-Dunton
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