Le Duc came in soon after, and I told him to behave respectfully towards Madame Dubois.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Lines deployed checkerwise or in echelons are much better for cavalry than full lines; whilst for infantry lines
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

And in the Sfera of Lionardo Dati (circa 1390):— "Da Tramontana di quest' Asia Grande Tartari son sotto la fredda Zona, Gente bestial di bestie e vivande, Fin dove l'Onda di Baccù risuona," etc.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And he stopped, and the dog was bloody, and father lay down crying on the floor with the dog in his arms, and the dog licked his face.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

They write the news, and sell them to online services like Dialog, CompuServe, Nexis and NewsNet.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Et puis se dira li Papes de la dite chose: 'Elle est blanche,' si en jurera toute ladite gent: 'Il est voirs qu'elle est blanche; blanche est com noifs.'
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In 1701 he sent Sir Godfrey Kneller to Oxford to paint the portrait, and the University rewarded him with a Latin diploma containing in gorgeous language the expression of thanks for his munificence.’
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

lo Locho delle colonne
— 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

Is that the worst this letter doth contain?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

pseudobulbis ovatis lævigatis nebulosis diphyllis, foliis loratis planis basi angustatis paniculâ amplâ erectâ multiflorâ 3-plo brevioribus, bracteis minutis, floribus membranaceis, sepalis ovato-oblongis apiculatis leviter undulatis, petalis conformibus latioribus, labello cuspidato subpandurato basi denticulato, cristæ lamellis lateralibus distantibus cartilagineis laceris lineis duabus divergentibus apice denticulatis interjectis, columnæ brevis alis brevibus cuneatis laceris.
— from A Monograph of Odontoglossum by Jas. (James) Bateman

It is this misunderstanding or overlooking of the real reasons for teaching concerning sex health that seems to have led Dr. Cabot into apparent opposition to the general movement for sex-instruction.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

(DUNN exits L. DONOHUE crosses up R. end of chesterfield to chest up R., starts to cross L. below chesterfield .
— from The Thirteenth Chair: A Play in Three Acts by Bayard Veiller

" "And what think you was he?" "That was what our Lord, the Count de Foix, would fain have known, when he had much marveled at the tidings that were brought him by the Lord de Corasse, and had heard of the strange messenger who brought them.
— from The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Her costume, of some thin, bluish-grey stuff, was made in a style which few London dressmakers could achieve, and its ornamentation, although daring, was nevertheless extremely tasteful, and suited her great beauty admirably.
— from The Bond of Black by William Le Queux

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— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens