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fortunam regna et imperia dare

Romani olim putabant fortunam regna et imperia dare:
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

father revolted even in death

But now it appeared to him as if there was to be no forgiveness; as if his father revolted even in death against any such peaceful union.
— from The Doom of the Griffiths by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

foreign relations ever in danger

Yet there never has been an administration, as afterwards appeared, when we were more perfectly at peace with all the world, nor were our foreign relations ever in danger of producing hostilities.
— from Theodore Roosevelt An Address Delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Congress of the United States by Henry Cabot Lodge

Florentino raccolte ed illustrate dall

Vita e lettere d'Amerigo Vespucci, Gentiluomo Florentino, raccolte ed illustrate dall' Abate Angelo Maria Bandini.
— from The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career by Amerigo Vespucci

for reckless extravagance in dress

The demi-mondaines having chosen these occasions for reckless extravagance in dress, the social elect said, "Let us mark a distinction by disdaining rivalry in chiffons.
— from In Vanity Fair: A Tale of Frocks and Femininity by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

for rewarde euerlastynge ioy deserue

On many labours a man to set his mynde For nouther his wyt nor body can be stable Whiche wyll his body to dyuers chargis bynde Whyle one goth forwarde the other bydes behynde Therfore I the counseyll for thyne owne behoue Let go this worlde and serue thy lorde aboue He that his mynde settyth god truly to serue And his sayntes: this worlde settynge at nought Shall for rewarde euerlastynge ioy deserue
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

first riding ever I did

I mention this as being rather something great, being the first riding ever I did.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

fingered race expert in delicate

China is rich in mines of iron and copper and zinc, and her people were a deft fingered race, expert in delicate working of metals, and, at this stage of advance in simple arts the tongues of reed would be superseded by tongues of metal, thin and elastic, and free from the disadvantages of swelling by moisture and of the need of frequent renewals.
— from The World's Earliest Music Traced to Its Beginnings in Ancient Lands by Collected Evidence of Relics, Records, History, and Musical Instruments from Greece, Etruria, Egypt, China, Through Asyria and Babylonia, to the Primitive Home, the Land of Akkad and Sumer by Hermann Smith

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