On the twenty-ninth of November Kutúzov entered Vílna—his “dear Vílna” as he called it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
After the death of blessed king Edward VI.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
By the influence of his friend Sir John Cheek, he was kindly received at the court of King Edward VI., and rewarded (it is difficult to say for what) with a pension of one hundred crowns.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay
Professor Mach quotes somewhere an epigram of Lessing's: Sagt Hanschen Schlau zu Vetter Fritz, "Wie kommt es, Vetter Fritzen, Dass grad' die Reichsten in der Welt, Das meiste Geld besitzen?" Hanschen Schlau here treats the principle 'wealth' as something distinct from the facts denoted by the man's being rich.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
" "La Infaneto" kamero havis neesperitan sukceson, kaj estas vendita po miloj da ekzempleroj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed
To this place came King Edward VI., in the second of his reign, from Hampton Court, and dined in it.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow
Hugh knows English very imperfectly, and so what he narrated was in the ancient Gaelic which his fathers spoke.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz
How Earconbert, King of Kent, ordered the idols to be destroyed; and of his daughter Earcongota, and his kinswoman Ethelberg, virgins consecrated to God.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint
= KEY: Essay \v.\, [See ASSAY].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Centnerszwer , M.: 1898, Ueber den Katalytischen Einfluss verscheidener Gase und Dämpfe auf die Oxydation des Phosphors.
— from The Nature of Animal Light by E. Newton (Edmund Newton) Harvey
King Edward VII., 138, 203, 234.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory
For instance, the “Elderly Scribe” became “A Girl at the Drawing-room,” under which heading a long article once appeared in a leading paper, describing my imaginary thrills as an American débutante at the first Court of King Edward VII.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie
Had a single gentleman uttered an undutiful word against the King, Egmont vowed he would have stabbed him through and through upon the spot, had he been his own brother.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-66) by John Lothrop Motley
On the 15th of November the General made a dash from Lindley at a Boer laager, which was supposed to be about 7 miles out on the Reitz road, on the other side of a huge kopje easily visible at a considerable distance.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin
you auctoryte to S ur uey the lond es of the bisshopriche of Couentre and Lichfeld and to receyue the rent es and p ro fites of the same to the king es vse.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman
SEE Knickerbocker, Edwin Van B. Thinking, speaking and writing English for seventh year.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1960 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
SEE Keyserling, E. von.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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