`The poudre in which myn herte y-brend shal torne, That preye I thee thou take and it conserve 310 In a vessel, that men clepeth an urne, Of gold, and to my lady that I serve, For love of whom thus pitously I sterve, So yeve it hir, and do me this plesaunce, To preye hir kepe it for a remembraunce.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The reference which Doctor Rizal makes to President Harrison had in mind the grandson-of-his-grandfather’s blundering, wavering policy that, because of a groundless fear of infringing the natives’ natural rights, put his country in [ 10 ] the false light of wanting to share in Samoa’s exploitation, taking the leonine portion, too, along with Germany and England.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

The following letter of Wolfgang's shows the sparkling state of his spirits, caused by the completion of his opera.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

After some search the woman drew from her basket an old pepper-box, upon the faded label of which the wizard had written with a lead-pencil: "Powder of Life."
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And now day dawned; and if the dead freebooters had scared them, their hearts were no less troubled by upwards of forty living ones, who all of a sudden surrounded them, and in the Catalan tongue bade them stand and wait until their captain came up.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They awakened a tender emotion in me; for my heart was softened by my return, and such a change had come to pass, that I felt like one who was toiling home barefoot from distant travel, and whose wanderings had lasted many years.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

In the fury of the pursuit, the Catholics uncovered the roof, and continued to throw down flaming logs of wood, till they overwhelmed th
— 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

Miss Oranthy Bluggage , the accomplished Strong-Minded Lecturer, will deliver her famous Lecture on " Woman and Her Position ," at Pickwick Hall, next Saturday Evening, after the usual performances.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

They sometimes converse in foreign languages of which in their normal states they are entirely ignorant.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

[2] into the bargain!), seemed almost transformed during these three days by a hurricane of freedom, like one who has been suddenly raised to his full height and given wings.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

2. Underline on title page the first letter of words which must be lettered on back.
— from Library Bookbinding by Arthur Low Bailey

Tubes not separable from each other, round, angular, or torn, fleshy, leathery or woody, Polyporus.
— from Among the Mushrooms: A Guide For Beginners by Caroline A. Burgin

The foreman, whose name proved to be Isaacs,—"Abe" Isaacs,—brought us our first "lot" of work.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

Men lost among the nigger-heads have been found later on with their bones picked dry."
— from The Call of the Beaver Patrol; Or, A Break in the Glacier by V. T. Sherman

In consequence, the said Principality shall preserve its independent and national administration, as well as full liberty of worship, of legislation, of commerce, and of navigation.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

In the garden she idled up and down awhile in a restless fume, like one whose thoughts bubble bodingly.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

VI THE FOREIGN LAND A woman is a foreign land, Of which, though there he settle young, A man will ne'er quite understand The customs, politics, and tongue.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

Linnæus describes many of the Geraniums, as having only five antheræ, though several of those he thus describes have to our certain knowledge ten, the five lowermost of which shedding their pollen first, often drop off, and leave the filaments apparently barren: but in this species (with us at least) there never are more than five, but betwixt each stamen, there is a broad pointed barren filament or squamula, scarcely to be distinguished by the naked eye.
— from The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 01 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis