Gluttons, vi. Godenti, Frati, xxiii. 103 .
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Gomita, Fra, xxii.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
After receiving these instructions for their governments from Xenares and Cleobulus and their friends at Lacedaemon, the Boeotians and Corinthians departed.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Those people gave us x pieces of gold for xiiii libras of iron 304 (one piece being worth about one and one-half ducados).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
On certain occasions the Divine communication made to them by the Spirit included a knowledge of the future; as when Agabus foretold the great famine (xi. 28) and the imprisonment of St. Paul (xxi. 11), and when St. Paul told that the Holy Spirit testified to him in every city, that bonds and afflictions awaited him at Jerusalem (xx. 23).
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles by Alfred Plummer
Handel, George Frederick, xiv, 253 ; Linnæus and, xii, 300; Walter Damrosch on, xiv, 253 ; Dean Swift on, xiv, 271 ; Rev. H. R. Haweis on, xiv, 250 .
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard
Then one of the leaders got me to see that I could get most fun out of campin’ by doin’ things for Lenape instead of bein’ selfish and tryin’ to show how smart a guy F. X. A. Ryan was.
— from Camp Lenape on the Long Trail by Carl Saxon
1190 Those who are desirous of further information respecting the sandix , may consult Salmasius on Solinus, p. 810, and the editor of the Cyneget of Gratius Faliscus, x. 86.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann
Guava fruit, x. 261. Guayaquil described, x. 365.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson
All of this they showed themselves to be in this journey through rains and snows, in swimming across many rivers, in crossing great mountain chains and in sleeping many nights in the open air without water to drink and without anything on which to feed, and always, day and night, having to be armed and on guard, in going, at the end of the war, to reduce many caciques and lands which had rebelled, and in going from Xauxa to Cuzco, on which journey
— from An Account of the Conquest of Peru by Pedro Sancho
Ballinasloe Fair, Galway, and Sir George Findlay XXII.
— from Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Joseph Tatlow
"I like to see him getting fat," X would say; "he looked half starved when he came to us."
— from By Desert Ways to Baghdad by Louisa Jebb Wilkins
He then directs a Clyster, takes away some Blood from the Jugular, and gives from xv to xxi Grains of Bezoar Mineral twice a Day; or oftener, as Occasion requires, with thin diluting Liquors, in order to raise and promote a moderate Sweat.
— from An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers A Disease Which Hath of Late Years Appeared in This City, and in Several Parts of the Nation by John Fothergill
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