His face expressed profound consternation.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

A conspicuous, and it is hoped not unpleasant, feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets, chief of whom is that learned and ingenius cleric, Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J., whose lines bear his initials.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

īeðnes f. ease, pleasure , CP 425 11 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Praecipue valet ad expellendam melancholiam stare in cantibus, ludis, et sonis et habitare cum familiaribus, et praecipue cum puellis jucundis.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A first edition, printed ca. 1483, may have well been a dilapidated copy such as Torinus describes in 1529.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Parlements therefore shall return from exile: Plenary Court, Payment two-fifths in Paper have vanished; gone off in smoke, at the foot of Henri's Statue.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Note 34 ( return ) [ Teutonici, quia caesaries et forma decoros Fecerat egregie proceri corporis illos Corpora derident Normannica quae breviora Esse videbantur.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Adam, though his rational faculties be supposed, at the very first, entirely perfect, could not have inferred from the fluidity and transparency of water that it would suffocate him, or from the light and warmth of fire that it would consume him.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Till the tired jade the wheel forgets to hurl, Provoking envious gibe from each pedestrian churl.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Rea la scelse gia` per cuna fida del suo figliuolo, e per celarlo meglio, quando piangea, vi facea far le grida.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

For even Paul conceived of Jesus as a man wholly exceptional in spiritual character; or, in the phraseology of the time, as consisting to a larger extent of pneuma than any man who had lived before him.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

i, so ouy, sy no, nay non, nenny in earnes a certes for earnes pour certes of earnes de certes in certayne a certain for certayne pour certain of certayne de certain certaynly certainement in trewth en uerité in sothe en uray for truthe pour uerité for sothe pour uray of truthe de uerité of sothe de uray trewly urayment veritably veritablement in my God en mon
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

For even physical culture is conceivable only as formation of the mind, and more properly of character.
— from The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

Look out, and do not let the thrifty men of brains lend you their ideas at that fatal eight per cent., which, in reality, means fully sixteen!
— from The Golden Censer Or, the duties of to-day, the hopes of the future by John McGovern

LATER EDUCATIONAL CAREER As already recorded, F was transferred in 1924, at the age of 10 years, to the Special Opportunity Class in P.S. 165, Manhattan, then being organized for experimental purposes connected with the education of children of rare intelligence.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

[11] The "extraordinary earths" of Agricola were such substances as ochres, tripoli, fullers earth, potters' clay, clay used for medicinal purposes, etc., etc.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

They advance on foreign stocks, as the phrase is, with 'a margin;' that is, they find eighty per cent of the money, and the nominal lender finds the rest.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

"Sure he is, Frank," exclaimed Paul, coming forward.
— from The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol by John Henry Goldfrap

It must be observed that this mixture of organic molecules of the two sexes contains similar [231] and different particles; the similar ones are those which have been extracted from every part common to both sexes.
— from Buffon's Natural History, Volume 03 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c. by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

[Pg 71] Ford, E. P., Central City *Fullerton, Geo.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer