The game à l'oreille, the invention of which is attributed to the troubadour Guillaume Adhémar, the jeu des Valentines, or the game of lovers, and the numerous games of forfeits, which have come down to us from the Courts of Love of the Middle Ages, we find to be somewhat deprived of their original simplicity in the way they are now played in country-houses in the winter and at village festivals in the summer.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

They guessed our loss at four or five hundred; it amounted to one hundred and seventy-two.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Acrocerau′nia (thunder-smitten peaks) (now Cape Glossa or Linguetta ), a promontory of Western Greece, in Epirus, running into the Adriatic.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

In this manner the battle on a modified principle burns slowly away like wet powder, and if the veil of night commands it to stop, because neither party can any longer see, and neither chooses to run the risk of blind chance, then an account is taken by each side respectively of the masses remaining, which can be called still effective, that is, which have not yet quite collapsed like extinct volcanoes; account is taken of the ground gained or lost, and of how stands the security of the rear; these results with the special impressions as to bravery and cowardice, ability and stupidity, which are thought to have been observed in ourselves and in the enemy are collected into one single total impression, out of which there springs the resolution to quit the field or to renew the combat on the morrow.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

The turf, that grew under the woods, was inlaid with a variety of wild flowers and perfumed herbs, and, on the opposite margin of the stream, whose current diffused freshness beneath the shades, rose a grove of lemon and orange trees.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

All are not born to lie on the lap and to drink milk: I have never been petted in this way, but I have seen a little dog seated in the place of a gentleman or lady, and travelling inside a post-chaise.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

These lesser matters, as they indeed are in comparison with the greater ones, let a younger generation regulate by law, after the patterns which have preceded, and according to their own experience of the usefulness and necessity of such laws; and when they are duly regulated let there be no alteration, but let the citizens live in the observance of them.
— from Laws by Plato

We are capable of willing to be good, of loving and being loved, of thinking to the end that we may [105] be wiser.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

23, and 24.] of Circular Images of the Hole, (such as are ag , bh , ci , &c.) and by using a greater or less Hole in the Window-shut, I made the Circular Images ag , bh , ci , &c. of which it was formed, to become greater or less at pleasure, and thereby the Mixture of the Rays in the Image pt to be as much, or as little as I desired.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

He entered, gave one look, and stood silent as the rest.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Short taste, faint sense, affecting notices, And little images of pleasures past, Of health, and active life—health not yet slain, Nor the other grace of life, a good name, sold For sin's black wages.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb

What a arm you’ve got—great god of love—and a face like a peach!
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 15 by Robert Louis Stevenson

1. All the gods of love are shouting In my heart, and blowing airy Flourishes, and crying: “Hail!
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

Though a dweller in caves, yet he knew which was the door, for over its ill-fitting threshold came a strong glint of light; also up and down its length ran two cracks through which came more light.
— from Mooswa & Others of the Boundaries by William Alexander Fraser

The goddess of love and beauty.
— from Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology by Mabel H. Cummings

Why, gentlemen, organize labor as much as you please, but we will watch to see that you do not organize robbery .
— from Sophisms of the Protectionists by Frédéric Bastiat

In sadder times therefore, and when the laws [30] Of Nero's fiat reign'd, an armèd band Seiz'd on Longinus, and the spacious land Of wealthy Seneca, besieg'd the gates Of Lateranus, and his fair estate Divided as a spoil: in such sad feasts Soldiers—though not invited—are the guests.
— from Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Henry Vaughan

But Emile had never been more master of himself; his mind had never been clearer, or his coolness greater; but Frenchman, and above all Parisian as he was, the devil-me-care spirit of the gamin had become paramount, and he would not play the game of life and death without risking a last joke.
— from The Flying Horseman by Gustave Aimard

Edward II., in a brief moment of wisdom, assigned to the faithful bishop the government of London and retreated to Bristol.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw

The nature of my training was to be trained in the operation of radar equipment which was used to guide or locate aircraft in the air.
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission