In more modern times, especially in popular fairy-traditions, Eevil or Eevinn ( Aoibhill or Aoibhinn ) of the Craig Liath or Grey Rock is a queen of the Munster fairies; [249] and Finvara is king of the Connaught fairies (see p. 42 ).
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

If, lord of giant race, thy mind Be fickle, false, to sin inclined, How wilt thou kingly place retain?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

I was the first that could plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Deneffe ( Les Oculistes Gallo Romains , p. 108), e. g., says: Il faut entendre par averso specillo la partie de la spatule [Pg 66] opposée à celle qui sert comme sonde, c’est-à-dire son extrémité large, l’autre bout étant le plus souvent olivaire.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

[326] and Buffia, [327] countries much inhabited and with great populations, and thence into the land of Menzogna, [328] where I found great plenty of our brethren and of friars of other religious orders, who all went about those parts, shunning unease for the love of God, recking little of others' travail, whenas they saw their own advantage to ensue, and spending none other money than such as was uncoined.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

I was the first that could thus plod in the public eye with a load of genial respectability, and in a moment, like a schoolboy, strip off these lendings and spring headlong into the sea of liberty.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

They make also the Typhoon and Comet machines, and a line of globular roasters.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

[23-55] opposite the land of Gnosus rises from the sea; on it is the cruel love of the bull, the disguised stealth of Pasiphaë, and the mingled breed and double issue of the Minotaur, record of a shameful passion; on it the famous dwelling's laborious inextricable maze; but Daedalus, pitying the great love of the princess, himself unlocked the tangled treachery of the palace, guiding with the clue her lover's blind footsteps.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Out of it grew a great ladder of giant rushes, by the side of which stood an enormous basket-tray.
— from Zuñi Folk Tales by Frank Hamilton Cushing

His laments over Greece, Rome, and the fallen in various engagements, have quite the character of panegyrical orations; while by the {15} very attempt to describe the celebrated buildings and sculptures of antiquity, he seems to confess that they are the poetical text, his the rhetorical comment.
— from Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools by John Henry Newman

His eyes were resting gently on her—or perhaps she just fancied that he spoke to her alone as he began the words of the ancient closing prayer: “May the blessings of the Lord Our God rest upon you.
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

I can fancy a man who had led a perfectly commonplace life, hearing by chance some curious piece of music, and suddenly discovering that his soul, without his being conscious of it, had passed through terrible experiences, and known fearful joys, or wild romantic loves, or great renunciations.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Romney reached the lights of Grotto Road with the form of the Oriental sagging limp in his arms from loss of blood.
— from The Last Ditch by Will Levington Comfort

Trial of John Peter Zenger Dinner at The Black Horse [Pg 103] When the trial came on, in July, 1735, Andrew Hamilton, of Philadelphia, a lawyer of great reputation, who had been secretly engaged, unexpectedly appeared by the side of the prisoner.
— from Old Taverns of New York by W. Harrison (William Harrison) Bayles

Tommy checked his impatience and answered, “Because you took it from the bank—” The look of grim resolution that Tommy had often seen came into his father's face.
— from The Last Penny by Edwin Lefevre

This was accomplished in the face of an enemy that had been heavily re-enforced with veteran troops, and largely outnumbered General Rosecrans.
— from Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton

ROSS and SONS can, with the greatest confidence, recommend the above DYE as infallible; and ladies or gentlemen requiring it are requested, if convenient, to have it done the first time at their establishment, which will enable them to use it afterwards themselves without the chance of failure.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

Observing the iron clergyman standing fast by its faith, she threw it a look of grieved reproach and hobbled heart-broken into her humble habitation, a subjugated cow.
— from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Negligible Tales, On With the Dance, Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce