[Pg 217] AGNOLO GADDI LIFE OF AGNOLO GADDI, PAINTER OF FLORENCE How honourable and profitable it is to be excellent in a noble art is manifestly seen in the talent and management of Taddeo Gaddi, who, having acquired very good means as well as fame with his industry and labours, left the affairs of his family so well arranged, when he passed to the other life, that Agnolo and Giovanni, his sons, were easily able to give a beginning to the very great riches and to the exaltation of the house of Gaddi, to-day very noble in Florence and in great repute throughout all Christendom.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Their arms were a green lion on a gold ground.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But together with chance, the accidental, and along with it good luck, occupy a great place in War.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

As Sam spoke, he pointed to that part of the coach door on which the proprietor’s name usually appears; and there, sure enough, in gilt letters of a goodly size, was the magic name of Pickwick !
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The Goat leaned over and gave him one of her hoofs to help him up out of the water.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Judge Thatcher hoped to see Tom a great lawyer or a great soldier some day.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

You must be able to enter into another's life, to live it with the other person, to be a good listener or a good talker.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It does not apply by day to cases in which a vessel sees another ahead crossing her own course, or by night to cases where the red light of one vessel is opposed to the red light of the other, or where the green light of one vessel is opposed to the green light of the other, or where a red light without a green light or a green light without a red light is seen ahead, or where both green and red lights are seen anywhere but ahead.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

Footnotes: [16] “Never,” says Fuller, “were two bad men’s deaths more generally lamented of all good men: only on this account, that they lived no longer to be forced to a further discovery of their secret associates.
— from Guy Fawkes; Or, A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Thomas Lathbury

[Pg 11] living, and now and then historical, France—to move gossippingly along in the by-ways rather than the highways—always more prone to give a good legend of a grey old castle, than a correct measurement of the height of the towers; and always seeking to bring up, as well as I can, a varying, shifting picture, well thronged with humanity, before the reader's eye.
— from Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the Rhone Notes, social, picturesque, and legendary, by the way. by Angus B. (Angus Bethune) Reach

In the former case it takes the form of extremely small, glistening lamellæ, of a golden-yellow colour, similar in appearance, when in bulk, to iodoform.
— from Venoms: Venomous Animals and Antivenomous Serum-therapeutics by A. (Albert) Calmette

This night, if any angels were watching Chicago, the Mallory mix-up must have given them a good laugh, or a good cry—according to their natures.
— from Excuse Me! by Rupert Hughes

Our great leaders of another generation have all left us, one after another—all have dropped into their graves.
— from Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg

From the Eastern Road, a caravan from the Nejd was descending slowly into the town, and so clear was the atmosphere that Amzi could distinguish the huge, white dromedaries, and catch an occasional glint of a green shugduf, or the gorgeous litter of a grandee, trapped in scarlet and gold.
— from The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson

The sun was gone, leaving only a glimmer behind; the swift twilight of the prairie was drawing down.
— from Wild Youth, Volume 1. by Gilbert Parker

" Certainly if a young man will smoke the best cigars and will give expensive drinks to every one who claps him upon the back and calls him "Old Man" he cannot afford to marry—why? Because he will not deny himself small and not very elevating luxuries for the sake of obtaining the great luxury of a good wife.
— from The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX, No. 979, October 1, 1898 by Various