But flee we now prolixitee best is, For love of god, and lat us faste go 1565 Right to the effect, with-oute tales mo, Why al this folk assembled in this place; And lat us of hir saluinges pace.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Dakug kunsúmu ning awtúha, This car uses a lot of gas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Terrestrial Heav’n, danc’t round by other Heav’ns That shine, yet bear thir bright officious Lamps, Light above Light, for thee alone, as seems, In thee concentring all thir precious beams Of sacred influence: As God in Heav’n Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou Centring receav’st from all those Orbs; in thee, Not in themselves, all thir known vertue appeers Productive in Herb, Plant, and nobler birth Of Creatures animate with gradual life Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summ’d up in Man.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Lion, the Fox, and the Beasts The Lion once gave out that he was sick unto death and summoned the animals to come and hear his last Will and Testament.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop

Fourthly, that these creatures, though they have some use of voice, in making knowne to one another their desires, and other affections; yet they want that art of words, by which some men can represent to others, that which is Good, in the likenesse of Evill; and Evill, in the likenesse of Good; and augment, or diminish the apparent greatnesse of Good and Evill; discontenting men, and troubling their Peace at their pleasure.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

18 Note 17 ( return ) [ Ambrose mentions the laws of Gratian, quas non abrogavit hostia (tom. ii epist.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

(ᾰ.) Ὅσιος , ία, ιον, pr. sanctioned by the supreme law of God and nature; pious, devout, Tit. 1.8; pure, 1 Ti. 2.8; supremely holy, Ac. 2.27; 13.35.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

As they shook each other by the hand: the face of each lighted up by beaming looks of affection, which would have been most delightful to behold in infants, and which, in men so old, was inexpressibly touching: Nicholas could observe that the last old gentleman was something stouter than his brother; this, and a slight additional shade of clumsiness in his gait and stature, formed the only perceptible difference between them.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

This admission is of great importance; in other words, the programme carried out by the Constituent Assembly in 1789 had been largely formulated in a lodge of German Freemasons who formed the nucleus of the Illuminati, in 1776.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

No doubt, the Legation itself was still as weakly manned and had as poor an outfit as the Legations of Guatemala or Portugal.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Minnie was conscious of no longings, but she knew that it was time to prepare Theo's linen, to see that everything was marked, so that he might have a chance at least of getting his things back from the wash.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Before turning in, the German youth expended a few loving caresses on the convertible sausage machine, and then, placing it on the floor, he tumbled into bed and soon his snores proclaimed that at least one guest of the Hinkley House was enjoying peaceful slumber.
— from The Boy Inventors' Electric Hydroaeroplane by Richard Bonner

In the narrow line of glare amid the emptiness, they played.
— from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament by Leonard Merrick

Writing of mountains reminds us that it was on the Puy de Dome, the summit of which is 4,806 above the level of the sea, that Pascal, for whom M. de Charles has invented the letters by which he has attempted to rob Newton of the honour of having discovered the laws of gravity, first observed the decrease of barometric pressure as mountains are ascended.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

[Pg 145] "WE LEAPED OVER GREAT INEQUALITIES."
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

You will follow the way, enduring with patience the injuries that have been offered you; the doctrine, being reconciled with your neighbour; and the love of God, which you will manifest by following the most holy Cross in the holy and sweet Crusade.
— from Letters of Catherine Benincasa by Catherine, of Siena, Saint

The relation that we sustain to the Lord our God, and the blessings and privileges to be acquired through the system of life which we have received, are worthy of our deepest consideration; and it is no less necessary that we understand the duties, the performance of which is requisite on our part, for the attainment of those blessings and privileges, and to keep ourselves in the path on which we may secure the highest advantages which the system of religion we have received is, in its nature, capable of giving.
— from Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey) Snow

And gilded crosiers, and crossed arms, and cowls, And helms, and twisted armour, and long swords, All the fantastic furniture of windows 120 Dim with brave knights and holy hermits, whose Likeness and fame alike rest in some panes Of crystal, which each rattling wind proclaims As frail as any other life or glory.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron