close up, form one mass , Ph : interlock, intertwine, twist, wind , CP: conclude .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must know, friend Sancho Panza, that it was a practice very much in vogue with the knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean to improve upon it, for they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough of service and hard days and worse nights, they gave them some title or other, of count, or at the most marquis, of some valley or province more or less; but if thou livest and I live, it may well be that before six days are over, I may have won some kingdom that has others dependent upon it, which will be just the thing to enable thee to be crowned king of one of them.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Oh memory, mortal foe of my peace!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Need I say more; if my reader is able to take my meaning, he will be able to follow out my principles in detail.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Here the best company for musique I ever was in, in my life, and wish I could live and die in it, both for musique and the face of Mrs. Pierce, and my wife and Knipp, who is pretty enough; but the most excellent, mad-humoured thing, and sings the noblest that ever I heard in my life, and Rolt, with her, some things together most excellently.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

3615 This was a great fortress of Syria founded by Seleucus B.C. 300, at the foot of Mount Pieria and overhanging the Mediterranean, four miles north of the Orontes and twelve miles west of Antioch.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

For the next two days I passed through a hilly country inhabited by Chinese, though it really belongs to Mongolia; but on the 14th I emerged on to the real steppes, which are the characteristic features of Mongolia Proper."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

All this he saw, for one moment Page 182 [Pg 182] breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Of course Mr. Mask is a fearful old mummy," prattled on Mrs. Palmer in her airy fashion, "but he is agreeable over legal matters, and understands business.
— from The Wooden Hand: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

I then thought that my father would be unjust if he ascribed my neglect to vice, or faultiness on my part; but I am now convinced that he was justified in conceiving that I should not be altogether free from blame.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

On our return, when I am once more with Yves and the two mousmés climbing up the road to Diou-djen-dji, which I shall probably never see again, a vague feeling of melancholy pervades my last stroll.
— from Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti

There are smiling women with narrowed eyelids and powdered faces, old men practising dolorous rejuvenations, laughter that conceals more than it expresses, motions that are as calculated as those of the dance, serpentine forms, fervid passions, and underneath the sophistries a violent primeval temper.
— from Artists Past and Present; Random Studies by Elisabeth Luther Cary

THE LOVER'S RESOLUTION Shall I, wasting in despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

'We are all horribly afraid of him,' one of his colleagues said the other day to a friend of mine; probably because he is the only man amongst them ill-bred and ill-tempered enough to be disagreeable and dangerous.
— from Critical Studies by Ouida

The fruit of theyr naturall bignesse heere and there aptly placed, their sides cut open, and in place of kernelles they were full of most perfecte Rubyes, as bigge as the kernels.
— from Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Francesco Colonna

All these things tended but little towards rendering my frame of mind peculiarly equable, while hurrying forward towards the point of destination, gulping down fresh (no not fresh ) mouthfuls of the thick yellow atmosphere, at each extorted exclamation of disgust and impatience.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

There have been secrets enough carried from one manufacturing plant to another.
— from White Fire by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

His early decease, while it did not materially check the rising flood of Mahratta power, certainly left the invading West a freer hand along the shores of India from Bombay to Calicut.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel