It is a beautiful arrangement, also, derived from days of yore, that this festival, which commemorates the announcement of the religion of peace and love, has been made the season for gathering together of family connections, and drawing closer again those bands of kindred hearts which the cares and pleasures and sorrows of the world are continually operating to cast loose; of calling back the children of a family who have launched forth in life and wandered widely asunder, once more to assemble about the paternal hearth, that rallying-place of the affections, there to grow young and loving again among the endearing mementos of childhood.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

La misma falta casi absoluta de claridad producía el efecto de un ilusorio movimiento en las masas de árboles, que se extendían al parecer, iban perezosamente y regresaban enroscándose, como el oleaje de un mar de sombras.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

In the former case a double circle of human figures is used, the figures of the inner circle representing the person who seeks the information, and those of the outer circle his enemy.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

21 Quaecumque igitur homines homini tribuunt ad eum augendum atque honestandum, aut benivolentiae gratia faciunt, cum aliqua de causa quempiam diligunt, aut honoris, si cuius virtutem suspiciunt, quemque dignum fortuna quam amplissima putant, aut cui fidem habent et bene rebus suis consulere arbitrantur, aut cuius opes metuunt, aut contra, a quibus aliquid exspectant, ut cum reges
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Scipio; Publius Cornelius Scipio Aemilianus Africanus Minor, son of Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, i , 116 , 121 ; adopted son of Publius Africanus's son, i , 121 ; friend and pupil of Panaetius, i , 90 ; intimate friend of Laelius ( q.v. ) and devoted to literature; serious, earnest, i , 108 ; self-control, ii , 76 ; a great soldier, i , 76 , 116 ; at Pydna (168) with his father; captured and destroyed Carthage (136) and Numantia (133), i , 35 ; ii , 76 ; statesman of high ideals, a bitter rival and yet a friend of Quintus Metellus, i , 87 .
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I felt convinced, after due consideration, that the act she had been guilty of with me had been deliberately done, and that her feelings of repentance kept her away from me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Thence to St. James Park, and there walked two or three hours talking of the difference between Sir G. Carteret and Mr. Creed about his accounts, and how to obviate him, but I find Creed a deadly cunning fellow and one that never do any thing openly, but has intrigues in all he do or says.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Out of this, at the sound of their footsteps, came a diminutive collie, who, seeing them, got down on his belly and did obeisance after his fashion.
— from Mr. Poskitt's Nightcaps: Stories of a Yorkshire Farmer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

—“These two volumes will form comprehensive and delightful companions to every traveller.”
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Whilst I was still searching, the door opened, the voices fell calm, and Dorothy came in bearing a candle in each hand.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

After the flower comes a downy capsule, five-celled, with numerous pointed seeds.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

This was our friend Count Annibal de Coconnas.
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

It is said that the most fiendish ceremonies and diabolical cruelties were practiced at their “house-warmings,” so to speak.
— from Wonderland; or, Alaska and the Inside Passage With a Description of the Country Traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad by John Hyde

=317= "They have indeed," he said, "produced to me a resolve of Congress empowering them to draw ... for their expenses at foreign courts; and doubtless Congress, when that resolve was made, intended to enable us to pay those drafts; but as that has not been done, and the gentlemen (except Mr. Lee for a few weeks) have not incurred any expense at foreign courts, and, if they had, the 5500 guineas received by them in about nine months seemed an ample provision for it, ...
— from Benjamin Franklin by John Torrey Morse

Ports and terminals: Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore Military Albania Military branches: Land Forces Command (Army), Naval Forces Command, Air Defense Command, General Staff Headquarters (includes Logistics Command, Training and Doctrine Command) (2007) Military service age and obligation: 19 years of age (2004) Manpower available for military service: males age 16-49: 944,592 females age 16-49: 908,527 (2008 est.)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency