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German and verbally interpreted to

p. 321-323,) and Marei, (p. 384-386,) an historian of Egypt, translated by Reiske from Arabic into German, and verbally interpreted to me by a friend.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

gûlʻkălû a verb implying that

It may be rendered “Leaning-wood,” from ătă′ , “wood” and gûlʻkălû , a verb implying that something long is leaning, without sufficient support, against some other object; it has no first person form.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

great a virtue is temperance

How great a virtue is temperance, how much of moment through the whole life of man!
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

Greek and Virgil in the

This is indeed one of the most exquisite beauties of poetry, and attainable by very few: I only know of Homer eminent for it in the Greek, and Virgil in the Latin.
— from The Iliad by Homer

good and virtuous if there

By all that is good and virtuous, if there are three drops of oil to be got, and a hammer to be found within ten miles of Shandy Hall—the parlour door hinge shall be mended this reign.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

grown all vermeil in the

The damsel, grown all vermeil in the face for shamefastness, making the king's pleasure hers, replied in a low voice on this wise, 'My lord, I am well assured that, were it known that I had fallen enamoured of you, most folk would account me mad therefor, thinking belike that I had forgotten myself and knew not mine own condition nor yet yours; but God, who alone seeth the hearts of mortals, knoweth that, in that same hour whenas first you pleased me, I knew you for a king and myself for the daughter of Bernardo the apothecary and that it ill beseemed me to address the ardour of my soul unto so high a place.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

given almost verbatim in the

The same theory that Freemasonry originated in Palestine as a system of protection for the Christian faith is given almost verbatim in the instructions to the candidate for initiation into the degree of "Prince of the Royal Secret" published in Monitor of Freemasonry (Chicago, 1860), where it is added that "the brethren assembled round the tomb of Hiram, is a representation of the disciples lamenting the death of Christ on the Cross."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

god and Venus I the

But liggeth stille, and taketh him right here, It nedeth not no ferther for him sterte; And ech of yow ese otheres sorwes smerte, 950 For love of god; and, Venus, I the herie; For sone hope I we shulle ben alle merie.'
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

gone and vainly imagined that

Yes, of course, that was all he meant—and she, little idiot, had gone and vainly imagined that he didn't want anybody but her.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

generally accepted view is that

The generally accepted view is that on excitation “the actual downward curvature of the pulvinus is partly due to a contraction of the walls of the motor cells consequent upon the decrease of turgor, but is accentuated by expansion of the insensitive adaxial half of the pulvinus—which was strongly compressed in the unstimulated condition of the organ—and also by the weight of the leaf. ”
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

giving a vote in the

An ecclesiastic, having the right to a stall in a Cathedral, and of giving a vote in the Chapter.
— from The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

give a vivid impression to

In the course of his rambles, he made paintings of every thing calculated to give a vivid impression to others of the persons, events, and scenes which fell under his notice, and the result is a magnificent collection of portraits and views of the most interesting character, made still more attractive by an immense variety of Indian dresses, arms, and utensils of many kinds, which, with the illustrative scenes, give a clear idea of aboriginal characteristics, and form a pleasing evidence of the results which can be achieved by the untiring perseverance of a single man.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

go as virgins into the

High Mass was performed, then a long sermon was delivered by a priest who spoke very fluently, but with a strange twang and in a very odd style, continually apostrophising the two girls by name, comparing them to olives and other fruit, to candelabri , and desiring them to keep themselves pure that ‘they might go as virgins into the chamber of their beloved.’
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville

gave a vast impetus to

The revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 gave a vast impetus to glass-working as to other crafts.
— from Old Glass and How to Collect it by J. Sydney Lewis

Graham A Vagabond in the

Dawson, 339. 42. S. Graham, “A Vagabond in the Caucasus.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

graduated and variegated in the

b. Tail rounded or graduated, and variegated in the male.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

gone a verst if thou

Inside the house the rooms were filled with ordinary, plain furniture; rather unusual was a verst-post which stood on a window-sill in the hall, and bore the following inscription: "If thou walkest 68 times around this hall,[30] thou wilt have gone a verst; if thou goest 87 times from the extreme corner of the drawing-room to the right corner of the billiard-room, thou wilt have gone a verst,"—and so forth.
— from A Reckless Character, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

general all vegetables intended to

In general, all vegetables intended to be preserved should be used as recently gathered as possible, and prepared with the utmost rapidity, so that there should be as it were, but one step from the garden-bed to the water-bath.
— from The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances for Several Years, 2nd ed. A work published by the order of the French minister of the interior, on the report of the Board of arts and manufactures by Nicolas Appert

galleries a voice in the

This is carried to so great an extent that M. de Montlosier ironically proposes "to give the galleries a voice in the deliberations."
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

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