Sires du Chastel du Gast, voisins prochain de Salebieres, comme chevaliers amoureus enprens à translater du Latin en François une partie de cette estoire, non mie pour ce que je sache gramment de François, ainz apartient plus ma langue et ma parleure à la manière de l'Engleterre que à celle de France, comme cel qui fu en Engleterre nez, mais tele est ma volentez et mon proposement, que je en langue françoise le translaterai."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Le jeu est le fils de l'avarice et le père du désespoir —Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Quise llevar al lector en los universos de la pintura y de la empresa, universos que se entrelazan, se escapan, después se juntan en la fulgurancia de los programas.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

en passant[Fr], by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard. Phr. acierta errando[Lat]; dextro tempore[Lat]; "fearful concatenation of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances" [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoir[Fr]; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

His career is thus sketched by a contemporary:— ‘ Il avoit esté de sa premiere profession jacobin, et la feue royne de Navarre Margueritte, qui aymoit les gens sçavans et spirituels, le cognoissant tel, le deffrocqua et le mena avec elle à la Court, le fit cognoistre, le poussa, luy ayda, le fit employer en plusieurs ambassades; car je pense qu’il n’y a guieres pays en l’Europe où il n’ayt esté ambassadeur et en negotiation
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

204 Usóz y Rio, Don Luis de, letters from, to Borrow, 134–36 Utting, Mr., 172 V Valpy , Rev. E. , Borrow’s schoolmaster—story of Borrow being flogged by, 46–49 Venning, John, work of, in Russia—befriends Borrow, 95 Victoria, Queen, visits gypsy encampment, 29 Vidocq, memoirs of, translated by Borrow, 80 Vienna described, 170 p. 284 W Wahrheit und Dichtung , opening lines of, compared with those of Lavengro , 7 Walpole, Horace, on Mr. Fenn, 26 Watts-Dunton, Theodore, criticism of Borrow’s work, 251; on intimacy between Borrow and Hake, 250, 251; introduction to Lavengro by, 269 Weare pamphlets, 71 — William, murder of, 71 Westminster Review , 82 Whewell, Dr., 188 Wilberforce, William, connection of, with Bible Society, 91 Wilcock, Rev. J., his impressions of Borrow, 220 Wild Wales , 9, 143, 246, 255; appreciations of, 233, 236, 238, 239; comparative failure of, 239; comparison of, with Borrow’s three other great works, 242; high spirits of 243; Lope de Vega’s ghost story referred to in, 237; reviews of, 236; time taken to write, 236 Wilhelm Meister , quoted, 91 William Bodham Donne and his Friends , Borrow described in, 233, 234 Williams, J. Evan, letter from Borrow to, on similarity of some Sclavonian and Welsh words, 237, 238 Woodhouses, the, 66 Wordsworth, Borrow’s estimate of, 224 Wormius, Olaus, 51 Wright, Dr. Aldis, 231 Z Zincali , The , work by Borrow, 29; criticisms of, 147, 148; number of copies of, sold, 158; editions of, issued, 147 The Temple Press Letchworth ENGLAND Footnotes [11a] Lavengro , ch. xiv.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

Ella looked thoughtfully on the ground-- "You said though, that the bride is young and pretty, and Cesario is surely the man to inspire love in such a youthful creature, who is just entering life from a convent's education."
— from Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by E. Werner

E. Lee, second lieutenant, Washington, D.C. George W. Lee, second lieutenant, Memphis, Tenn. Lawrence A. Lee, second lieutenant, Hampton, Va. John E. Leonard, first lieutenant, U.S. Army.
— from History of the American Negro in the Great World War His Splendid Record in the Battle Zones of Europe; Including a Resume of His Past Services to his Country in the Wars of the Revolution, of 1812, the War of Rebellion, the Indian Wars on the Frontier, the Spanish-American War, and the Late Imbroglio With Mexico by William Allison Sweeney

To Mr. Johann Lothar Faber Manufacturer.” With joyous emotion L. Faber communicated this gracious mark of honour to all assembled, by reading it aloud from the tribune, concluding with a triple cheer for His Majesty King Max in which every one joined with the greatest spirit.
— from The Lead Pencil Manufactory of A. W. Faber at Stein near Nürnberg, Bavaria An Historical Sketch by Faber-Castell (Firm)

Jimmy even looked fixedly at the ceiling, as though he thought the ring might have bounced up there and stuck.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Follow your own little footprints, pit-pat, pit-pat, back through the dark woods,—the moon shining through the trees, and making just enough light for you to see your way,—across the meadow, up the lane and then,—oh!
— from Five Minute Stories by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Servia is just establishing large factories; the number of women laborers is still small; 1604 are organized.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher