If I have a very large farm, either English or colonial, you will be invaluable as a wife to me; better than a woman out of the largest mansion in the country.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
Nothing could be finer or more beautiful than the sight, as she thus lay fully exposing every part in the broadest daylight.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
ad laodicenses F; Explicit epistola ad laodicenses (laudicenses R) DP_1GCH_2SRVX.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot
It he is looking for efficient employees,—and
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
These extracts were then rearranged in ledger form, each extract being classified under the heading of the instrument it referred to.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
Per hanc effundendus humor est; atque ubi maior pars eius evocata est claudenda demisso linteolo fistula est; et in vulnere
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
(13) Ward, L. F. "Eugenics, Euthenics and Eudemics," American Journal of Sociology , XVIII (1912-13), 737-54.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess
Et Claudius li chalangieres Jugiés fu à mort comme lieres, Se ne l'en éust respitié Virginius par sa pitié, Qui tant volt li pueple proier, 5680 Qu'en essil le fist envoier, Et tuit cil condampnés moururent Qui tesmoingz de la cause furent.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
We regard the death of Charles as an atrocious and abominable murder, vindicated by no reasons of expedience, authorised by no principle of justice, which has lowered for ever England to the level of the adjoining nations in the scale of crime; and which, had it not been vindicated by subsequent loyalty and chivalrous feeling, in the better part of the people, would long since have extinguished alike its liberties and its independence.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 by Various
With numerous Plates. 5 s. LEPSIUS'S Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai.
— from On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, and On the Will in Nature: Two Essays (revised edition) by Arthur Schopenhauer
A storm of almost unprecedented fury had prevailed in London from early evening on June —, 1593.
— from It Was Marlowe: A Story of the Secret of Three Centuries by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler
[222] Stoneleigh Reg., 12: 'Fuerunt eciam tunc quatuor natiui siue serui in le lone quorum quilibet nouum mesuagium et unum quartronum terre cum pertinenciis per seruicia subscripta videlicet leuando furcas, etc. ... et debebant ... redimere sanguinem suum et dare auxilium domino ad festum S ti .
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
I haven’t any love for ’em, either, and I’d like to see ’em out of the game.
— from Those Smith Boys on the Diamond; or, Nip and Tuck for Victory by Howard Roger Garis
219 Bonaparte, suddenly leaping from Elba, enters at an open window, knocking off the board, on which he had been sitting, the unlucky Louis the Eighteenth, who lies prone on the floor, crying, ‘Help, help!
— from English Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I. Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ashton
der the nut will be hewn down thinner than the part approaching the button, the line from each end being made quite even and the curving of the semi-circular shaft gradually tapering upwards.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick
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