la gamba pienne de acqua molto buona da bere ne Comprauão assay daqueſti populi.
— 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

The hangers-on expected grave professional debate, and perhaps a little free doctoring.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

2. The bearing of Medusa’s head in the shield, which is the greatest possible defence and 348 safeguard; for one grand and memorable enterprise, happily accomplished, bridles all the motions and attempts of the enemy, stupefies disaffection, and quells commotions.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Stript of his glory, poor, dethroned, A wanderer by his friends disowned, On the cold earth he lays his head, Or is with toil and misery dead.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Beneath the bone the glancing point descends, And, driving down, the swelling bladder rends: Sunk in his sad companions' arms he lay, And in short pantings sobb'd his soul away; (Like some vile worm extended on the ground;) While life's red torrent gush'd from out the wound.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Group Photographed during a Visit to Ozaka Yasu.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

In the case of hearing this is to some extent otherwise; sounds can give pain directly, and they may also be sensuously agreeable, directly and without regard to
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

But if you go in a foreign country where you have a fair knowledge of the language, you will seem to have grown partially deaf, and you will find it necessary to be much nearer the stage than you would need to be in your own country.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Glowing passion, despair and violent ecstacy, were the soul of the Spanish love songs.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Just as you get plumb discouraged and have ceased to look for the lakes, they all at once lie at your feet in all their glistening, dazzling, snowy whiteness.
— from Bill Nye's Chestnuts Old and New by Bill Nye

It is far more destructive to the ranchman's chickens, pigs, and lambs than even the big timber wolf, but, on the other hand, benefits the industry by aiding him in exterminating troublesome gophers, prairie dogs and rabbits.
— from Zoölogy: The Science of Animal Life Popular Science Library, Volume XII (of 16), P. F. Collier & Son Company, 1922 by Ernest Ingersoll

and I do come of good people, dear, and it wasn't their fault I never learned more——" Jim added at last, hesitating as [262] though even this slight reference to his past was torn from him against his will.
— from The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

Among these, in a glass, are small terminal busts, joined back to back, of Bacchus and Libera; three yellow and red marble heads of Libera; a yellow marble bearded Bacchus; and the bust of a Greek poet discovered at Bitolia.
— from How to See the British Museum in Four Visits by Blanchard Jerrold

William, driven back, as he had so often been, on his own innate statesmanship, endeavoured to accomplish by wit what he was now powerless to accomplish by arms, and secretly framed with Louis the Partition Treaty, by which the vast dominions of the imbecile and dying King of Spain were to be divided between Louis' grandson Phillippe d'Anjou, and William's candidate, the infant son of the Elector of Bavaria, who derived his claim through his dead mother, Maria Antonia.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

In the main this situation is met, as all situations in war in which efficiency can only be attained at the expense of great personal danger are met, namely, by braving the danger.
— from Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

More than a hundred gallons per day are taken away by real invalids , besides that drank at the spring.
— from Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn