[With reference to this feast, Mr. Rockhill gives ( Rubruck , p. 241, note) extracts from Pallas, Voyages , IV. 579, and Professor Radloff, Aus Siberien , I. 378.—H. C.]
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The baronet slept peacefully, his noble face plainly visible in the subdued lamplight.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I AM not insensible, brother Shandy, that when a man whose profession is arms, wishes, as I have done, for war,—it has an ill aspect to the world;——and that, how just and right soever his motives the intentions may be,—he stands in an uneasy posture in vindicating himself from private views in doing it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I said 'almost' in view of the following passage ( v. ii.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

And I am not sure that even honest Mr. Tulliver himself, with his general view of law as a cockpit, might not, under opposite circumstances, have seen a fine appropriateness in the truth that "Wakem was Wakem"; since I have understood from persons versed in history, that mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Poscia ch'io v'ebbi alcun riconosciuto, vidi e conobbi l'ombra di colui che fece per viltade il gran rifiuto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

H2 anchor CHAPTER III Old Prince Nicholas Bolkónski received a letter from Prince Vasíli in November, 1805, announcing that he and his son would be paying him a visit.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Prior and Montague inserted the following poetic vignette in their City Mouse and Country Mouse , written in burlesque of Dryden's Hind and Panther : Then on they jogg'd; and since an hour of talk Might cut a banter on the tedious walk, As I remember, said the sober mouse, I've heard much talk of the Wits' Coffee-house; Thither, says Brindle, thou shalt go and see Priests supping coffee, sparks and poets tea; Here rugged frieze, there quality well drest, These baffling the grand Senior, those the Test, And there shrewd guesses made, and reasons given, That human laws were never made in heaven; But, above all, what shall oblige thy sight, And fill thy eyeballs with a vast delight, Is the poetic judge of sacred wit, Who does i' th' darkness of his glory sit;
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[135] Without multiplying references, I will simply cite Mendel (Archiv f. Psychiatrie, vol. iii, 1871), Mairet (Archives de Neurologie, vol.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It is probably to St. Hugh of Lincoln that we owe the first perfect vault in England.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Full page vignette illustrations by M. Leone Bracker.
— from The Brute by Frederic Arnold Kummer

P. rufa thorace punctis quatuor utrinque inter latus et fossulas anticas duas divergentes in lineam transversam dispositis, scutellu piceo, elytris testaceis nigro-variis striatis striis punctatis, corpore subtus pedibusque rufis, femoribus posticis valde incrassatis.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

If ever there was a young lady free from personal vanity, it is my Julia.
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

No; it is only a French patois, very interesting and peculiar in its grammatical forms.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

240 Schouwaloff, Paul Count, iii. 63, 78, 81, 83-84, 87 Schonen, Auguste Jean Marie Baron de, v. 96, 98, 113, 152-153 Schwartz, the Vicomte de Chateaubriand's travelling footman, v. 326, 330, 339-340, 352; vi. 12 Schwarzenberg, Karl Philipp Fieldmarshal Prince von, iii. 56-57, 94 Schwed, Margrave, iv.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Men of this age are frequently particularly vicious if their financial plans are threatened.
— from Airplane Boys Discover the Secrets of Cuzco by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

The number of men in the government who have disappeared from public view is amazing, the number that would like to disappear is still greater—from sheer overstrain.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

And Fanny protested vigorously: "It is not true!"
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

Teleprompter Corp. WORLD'S HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT: FLOYD PATTERSON VERSUS INGEMAR JOHANSSON.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office