Three of these people, not foreseeing how dear their knowledge of the corruptions of this part of the world will one day cost their happiness and repose, and that the effect of this commerce will be their ruin, as I presuppose it is in a very fair way (miserable men to suffer themselves to be deluded with desire of novelty and to have left the serenity of their own heaven to come so far to gaze at ours!), were at Rouen at the time that the late King Charles IX.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Furthermore his father, Adam, told him of the works of God, and of the garden.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Parker, in his "Glossary," refers to the coat of Roger Holthouse, which he blazons: "Vairy argent, azure, gules, and or, en point."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

They gathered around the sunset on the side of Rouen and then swiftly rolled back their black columns, behind which the great rays of the sun looked out like the golden arrows of a suspended trophy, while the rest of the empty heavens was white as porcelain.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

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— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

At length, in the beginning of May, with the help of some of my acquaintances, rather to improve so good an occasion for neighborliness than from any necessity, I set up the frame of my house.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Enter Goneril and Oswald .
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale, doth boast thy blessing.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

There I met Job, who, having been inducted to a similar apartment, had flatly declined to stop in it, saying that the look of the place gave him the horrors, and that he might as well be dead and buried in his grandfather’s brick grave at once, and expressed his determination of sleeping with me if I would allow him.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I will fetch your greatcoat and open the garden door for you.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

There was a great sheet of fudge-cake, which is a two-storied arrangement of solid chocolate cake with a thick fudge filling and a half-inch icing, a compound possible of safe consumption to girls and ostriches only.
— from Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam by Josephine Daskam Bacon

If their army be full of uproar; their banners and standards disordered, their soldiers going about or remaining of their own accord, some in line, others in column; if such an enemy be eager to pursue, and see an advantage which they are desperate to seize, then their general is a fool: even if there be a host, they may be taken.”
— from The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu by Qi Wu

Yezd is now the great seat of the Guebres and of their religion; but they are more poor and more contemned in Persia, than the most miserable of the Jews in Turkey.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

Anthony Jenkinson, in Hakluyt, gives an observation of its latitude, as Oweke (51° 40'), and Christopher Burrough, in the same collection, gives a description of it as Oueak , and the latitude as 51° 30' (some 7' too much).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

There is a great army of unemployed.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

They rehabilitated witnesses, laid bare falsifications, reconstructed lists of rulers and magistrates, connected chronology and contradicted certain legends: but, whether owing to the tendencies of thought usual among pure scholars and philologists or because of the general atmosphere of their century's culture, they neither had nor conveyed a feeling for the antique and the primitive.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

Afterward we went into his study, and he wrote his autograph for my teacher ["With great admiration of thy noble work in releasing from bondage the mind of thy dear pupil, I am truly thy friend.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

The general appearance of the ruins, as they at present stand, will be seen from the woodcut (No. 87 ).
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

In truth, 'tis impossible to go any other way, so we go on our hands and knees, advancing like two chimpanzees.
— from Hania by Henryk Sienkiewicz