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Dignus, dignus est intrare In nostro docto corpore.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
The last is no doubt correct, standing for the old Italian Scherani , bandits.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
She did not shew it me, but it no doubt contained instructions to supply you with everything.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
One begins to suspect at length that there is no direct correlation between eyelashes and morals; or else, that the eyelashes express the disposition of the fair one's grandmother, which is on the whole less important to us.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot
However I might have expressed my comprehension of it at that time, if I had been called upon, I nevertheless did clearly comprehend in my own way, that it was another name for tyranny; and for a certain gloomy, arrogant, devil’s humour, that was in them both.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
If even unto this day thou hadst ever lived in honours and pleasures, what would the whole profit thee if now death came to thee in an instant?
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
Doncque il est nostrae sapientiae, Boni sensus atque prudentiae, De fortement travaillare A nos bene conservare In tali credito, voga, et honore; Et prendere gardam a non recevere In nostro docto corpore, Quam personas capabiles, Et totas dignas remplire Has plaças honorabiles.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière
"Paul McCall raised me up with his chillun and I never did call him master, just called him pappy, and Jim McCall, I called him brother Jim.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Although geologists have doubted that oil exists in commercial quantities in North Dakota, considerable interest has been shown in the wells near Marmarth in the southwestern corner of the State.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota
And wrong nor cruelty nor injustice nor disloyalty can cause her to turn."
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great by Elbert Hubbard
The true state of the question is, whether every object, which begins to exist, must owe its existence to a cause: and this I assert neither to be intuitively nor demonstratively certain, and hope to have proved it sufficiently by the foregoing arguments.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
“I never did care for her, and hence, perhaps, she does not love me.
— from The Virginians by William Makepeace Thackeray
“But Mademoiselle is not dead?” cried Antoinette, with a shiver.
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke
Seneca describes the scene of the incantation in the following lines: Est procul ab urbe lucus illicibus niger Dircæa circa vallis irriguæ loca.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by John Dryden
i denti in nota di cicogna.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri
In such cases there is neither celestial illumination nor diabolic communion, neither—to use Page 88 [88] Maudsley's phrase—theolepsy nor diabolepsy, only psycholepsy.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen
1, collocavi ab ejus conductore penitus sejunctam, atque haud brevi intervallo dissitam; dum scalpelli cuspidem unus ex iis, qui mihi operam dabant, cruralibus hujus ranae internis nervis DD casu vel leviter admoveret, continuo omnes artuum musculi ita contrahi visi sunt, ut in vehementiores incidisse tonicas convulsiones viderentur.
— from Makers of Electricity by Brother Potamian
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