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Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also....
— 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.
To conger; the agreement of a set or knot of booksellers of London, that whosoever of them shall buy a good copy, the rest shall take off such a particular number, in quires, at a stated price; also booksellers joining to buy either a considerable or dangerous copy.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
There are three kinds of bills of lading: Port Bills of Lading, Custody Bills of Lading, and Through Bills of Lading.
— from Bremen Cotton Exchange, 1872/1922 by Andreas Wilhelm Cramer
Arthur was never, like [Pg 21] Vortigern, King of Britain, or, like Ambrosius, commander-in-chief of the British forces: he had no concern with the ‘Saxon shore’; he was, as we are frequently told, Guledig, or Imperator, but his authority must have been limited to the west and north.
— from King Arthur in Cornwall by W. Howship (William Howship) Dickinson
He was in close touch with such men as Lawes and Gilbert, Rothamstead, England, the famous field-crop experimenters of the world, and as for his knowledge of breeds of live stock and their origin, Miles's [Pg 839] Stock-Breeding is a classic work.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 by Various
There were those who recalled the killing of Bisbee of Las Palmas, and reminded others that there had been no attempt at prosecution.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory
Immediately afterwards, and this was rather strange, a kind of book or little tablet was placed upon the bed, the codicil was presented to the King, and at the bottom of it he wrote four or five lines, and restored the document to the Chancellor.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various
I do not remember why there was no tent for the Emperor at Austerlitz; but the soldiers made a kind of barrack of limbs of trees, with an opening in the top for the passage of the smoke.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various
And this is therein also:— “Praise-worth I can Well measure in man, And kings, one by one— Lo here, Kvararis son!
— from The Story Of Gunnlaug The Worm-Tongue And Raven The Skald 1875 by Anonymous
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