And as the shadows were to pass away when the full light came, Sarah, the free woman, who prefigured the free city (which again was also prefigured in another way by that shadow of a city Jerusalem), therefore said, "Cast out the bond woman and her son; for the son of the bond woman shall not be heir with my son Isaac," or, as the apostle says, "with the son of the free woman."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
He even gave a long song about the wooing of a widow which he informed me he had gathered from an excellent black-letter work entitled Cupid’s Solicitor for Love, containing store of good advice for bachelors, and which he promised to lend me; the first verse was to effect.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving
J. Warman 7 44699 Arthur Cooke 10 44700 Lucy Williams 11 44701 James Richards 10 44702 Frederick Lyes 17 —— 44703 Henry Rex 18 44704 E. A. Priestley 20 44705 Lillie Hugill 17 44706 Annie Hugill 14 44707 Fanny L. Chew , Stroud 13 44708 Nettie Sonthern 13 44709 Geo.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various
contrada ; Late Lat. contrata , from Lat. contra , see SkD. Control , sb. restrictive authority, Sh.—OF. contre-rôle , contre-rolle , a duplicate roll, used for verification, see Brachet, Cotg.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Fairye , sb. fairy power, fairy land, C2; see Fayerye .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
Fair Lady Cressid, So please you, save the thanks this prince expects.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
As he came up to the fire he thought that even the flames looked cold—stunted somehow—not because there had not been enough wood to feed them, but because the fire itself was old and tired.
— from Ride Proud, Rebel! by Andre Norton
The best brief treatise upon Swedish constitutional history is P. Fahlbeck, La constitution suédoise et le parlementarisme moderne (Paris, 1905).
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg
He is in sympathy with the Neoplatonists, with Augustine, with Thomas Aquinas, with Eckhart, with Paracelsus, above all, with Jacob Böhme, and Böhme's follower Louis Claude St. Martin (1743-1804), but does not overlook the value of the modern German philosophy.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
Further explanation is offered by the following little circumstances: since Haydn was present, the performance at Prince Lichnowsky’s must have been from manuscript.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer
R.; sub-deacon, Rev. Father Lutz, C. SS.
— from Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 by Various
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