Each day the school seemed to depend upon me more largely for its daily expenses, and I told these Boston friends that, while I thanked them sincerely for their thoughtfulness and generosity, I could not go to Europe, for the reason that the school could not live financially while I was absent.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

He bears himself more proudlier, Even to my person, than I thought he would When first I did embrace him; yet his nature
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To such an extent was this the case, that serious calamities having befallen the French nation about this time, and its fashions having exercised a considerable influence over the whole continent of Europe, contemporary historians do not hesitate to regard these public misfortunes as a providential chastisement inflicted on France for its disgraceful extravagance in dress.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

The House of Representatives is named by the people, the Senate by the legislators of each State; the former is directly elected, the latter is elected by an elected body; the term for which the representatives are chosen is only two years, that of the senators is six.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The Changi , the chief insignia of regality in Mewar, is a sun of gold in the centre of a disc of black ostrich feathers or felt, about three feet in diameter, elevated on a pole, and carried close to the prince.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He do presage that these men will make it their business to find faults in the management of the late Lord Treasurer, and in discouraging the bankers: but I am, whatever I in compliance do say to him, of another mind, and my heart is very glad of it, for I do expect they will do much good, and that it is the happiest thing that hath appeared to me for the good of the nation since the King come in.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

and it was forbidden unto any sick person to enter therein and many were the counsels given [4] for the preservation 2 of health) nor yet humble supplications, not once but many times both in ordered processions and on other wise made unto God by devout persons,—about the coming in of the Spring of the aforesaid year, it began on horrible and miraculous wise to show forth its dolorous effects.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

fair, PP; faire , P; fayre , PP; feyres , pl. , P. Phr. : this feire is i-doon , this fair is done, everything is sold, there is no more business to be done, G.—OF. feire (mod. foire ); Late Lat. feria , a fair; from Lat. feriae , holidays.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

But the intellectual creature, when it sins, falls away from its due end.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

If I fall, I die execrated and abhorred; if I succeed, the sound of the choral flutes will drown the hootings.
— from Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters An Unfinished Historical Romance by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He was quick, perhaps, at making antipathies, and quick, too, in making friendships; impressionable, demonstrative, eager, rapid in his movements,—sometimes to the great detriment of his shins and knuckles; and he possessed the sweetest temper that was ever given to a man for the blessing of a woman.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

I will not trust my memory to fill in details, especially as this incident once formed the basis of what proved an exciting story told to my children in their childhood.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

When the Act fell into disuse, Elizabeth was reminded, by petitions from the laity and by preaching from the clergy, that “witches and sorcerers were wonderfully increasing, and that her Majesty’s subjects pined away until death.”
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

I have never thought it easy to be just, and find it daily even harder than I thought.
— from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson