CATAMITE, old form of "ganymede.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

He marched in person, with a considerable part of the forces of Gaul, from the banks of the Moselle: and to the suppliant ambassadors of the Sarmatians, who met him on the way, he returned a doubtful answer, that, as soon as he reached the scene of action, he should examine, and pronounce.
— 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

She was clad in brown velvet; as I walked in her shadow, how I envied her those folds of grave, dark majesty!
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

" In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And when she had worked upon the heralds to induce her brother to come, as soon as she reached the temple of the goddess, according to the agreement, and the darkness of night surrounded them, that so she might devise with him a cunning plan for her to take the mighty fleece of gold and return to the home of Aeetes, for, she said, the sons of Phrixus had given her by force to the strangers to carry off; with such beguiling words she scattered to the air and the breezes her witching charms, which even from afar would have drawn down the savage beast from the steep mountain-height.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

In like manner, if the arrow strike a boat full of goods, that boat-load pays no duty; for it is thought unlucky that an arrow strike any one's property; and the Great Kaan says it would be an abomination before God, were such property, that has been struck by the divine wrath, to enter into his Treasury.[NOTE 1]] NOTE 1.—The Chinese author already quoted as to Kúblái's character (Note 2, ch. xxiii. supra) says: "This Prince, at the sight of some evil prognostic, or when there was dearth, would remit taxation, and cause grain to be distributed to those who were in destitution.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

From the holiday gaieties of the field—the white gowns, the nosegays, the willow-wands, the whirling movements on the green, the flash of gentle sentiment towards the stranger—to the yellow melancholy of this one-candled spectacle, what a step!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

gurámi n gourami, a fresh-water food fish: Osphronemus goramy .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Not all the social forces are obviously forces of good, although they are all under the ultimate control of a power which makes for righteousness."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Besides these, the titles of some twenty other Russian grammars, in Russian, French, or German, could be mentioned.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 by Various

The secret can never be wrested from the silent past, and we can gain nothing by fighting over graves.
— from Is The Bible Worth Reading, and Other Essays by L. K. (Lemuel Kelley) Washburn

Never for us shall any fancy bread— The food of vernal Love, and very tasty— On lip and cheek its subtle savour shed, Blent with the lighter forms of Gallic pasty; Never shall any bun, for you and me, Impart to amorous talk a fresh momentum, Except its saccharine ingredients be Confined to ten per centum.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917 by Various

The instinct of fear and the foreknowledge of great evil were present, unseen and terrible, and of the three hundred ladies who reined in their horses as the Queen halted, nine out of ten felt that they changed colour, scarcely knowing why.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Silk Mannfacture.—The manufacture of a woven fabric of great beauty out of the delicate fibre of the egg-cocoon of a worm could only have originated among a people who had attained the highest degree of civilization; it implies the art of weaving by delicate instruments, a dense population, a patient, skilful, artistic people, a sense of the beautiful, and a wealthy and luxurious class to purchase such costly fabrics.
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

Out of righteous living the devoted life, we believe, will see that the greatest fact of the Bible is God; that the greatest fact of God is Christ; that the greatest fact of Christ is the cross.
— from Understanding the Scriptures by Francis John McConnell

While adopting the Venetian form of government, the Florentines had omitted one essential element—the Doge.
— from Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III by John Addington Symonds