Then, without wasting time over the matter, he took leave of Biondello and agreeing for a price with a shrewd huckster, carried him near to the Cavicciuoli Gallery and showing him a gentleman there, called Messer Filippo Argenti, a big burly rawboned fellow and the most despiteful, choleric and humoursome man alive, gave him a great glass flagon and said to him, 'Go to yonder gentleman with this flask in hand and say to him, "Sir Biondello sendeth me to you and prayeth you be pleased to rubify him this flask with your good red wine, for that he would fain make merry somedele with his minions."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I had formerly known something of the Chevalier Beauteville, at the castle of Montmorency; he had shown me marks of esteem; since his appointment to the embassy he had given me proofs of his not having entirely forgotten me, accompanied with an invitation to go and see him at Soleure.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If he ever gets angry at me, I’ll never go and see him again,” said Mary.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Accordingly Nahash's [son], the king of the Ammonites, thought these princes spake what was more probable than the truth would admit, and so abused the ambassadors after a very harsh manner; for he shaved the one half of their beards, and cut off one half of their garments, and sent his answer, not in words, but in deeds.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Thence by coach took up my wife and girl, and so home, and set down Creed at Arundell House, going to the Royal Society, whither I would be glad to go, but cannot.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

There were several sanctuaries in Rome dedicated to her, the principal of which was on the Capitol, where it was the custom of generals, after success had attended their arms, to erect statues of the goddess in commemoration of their victories.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

He pointed out to me the little house inhabited by him and his fellow Belgians, and I promised to go and see him at an early date.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

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— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

the Missouri in it's course downward makes a suddon and extensive bend to receive the Muscle shell river, the point of country thus formed tho high is still much lower than that surrounding it, thus forming a valley of wavey country which extends itself for a great distance in a Northerly direction; the soil is fertile, produces a fine turf of low grass and some herbs, also immence quantities of the Prickley pear, without a stick of timber of any discription.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

A small island, every inch of which was covered with fortifications, page 90 p. 90 appeared to swim upon the waters, whose dark blue denoted their immense depth; tall green hills, which ascended gradually from the shore, formed the background to the west; they were carpeted to the top with turf of the most vivid green, and studded here and there with woods, seemingly of oak; there was a strange old castle half way up the ascent, a village on a crag—but the mists of morning were half veiling the scene when I surveyed it, and the mists of time are now hanging densely between it and my no longer youthful eye; I may not describe it;—nor will I try.
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

I lifted my darling sister Grace, and set her against the hedge-bank, and my heart went out of me, as I knelt and whispered to her.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Fortunately John did not get angry; Seth honestly admired and envied his elder brother’s good temper as he heard the reply: “That’s neither here nor there.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

The men who brought the goods are still here, and likely to remain till the end of the rains.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

I am glad your journey has yielded so good a scientific harvest, and especially that you found my "Oceanic Hydrozoa" of some use.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 by Thomas Henry Huxley

"I thank you, gentlemen, all," said he, and there was a curious catch in his voice.
— from My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens

She was decidedly pretty, though rather childish looking: her features were good, and she had a profusion of fair hair.
— from Female Warriors, Vol. 2 (of 2) Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. by Ellen C. (Ellen Creathorne) Clayton

"Our guests and servants here and the crew of the vessel."
— from Elsie's Winter Trip by Martha Finley

It kindles slowly, gives a steady heat, and burns for a longer time without attention than wood.
— from Public School Domestic Science by Adelaide Hoodless