The laying of such foundations for so great a church was celebrated with much solemnity, for on the day of the Nativity of Our Lady, in 1298, the first stone was laid by the Cardinal Legate of the Pope, in the presence not only of many Bishops and of all [Pg 23] the clergy, but of the Podestà as well, the Captains, Priors, and other magistrates of the city, nay, of the whole people of Florence, calling it S. Maria del Fiore.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari
“Lots o’ spring flowers grow from ’em.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
The daughter came one morning, as usual, on one of these swindling expeditions, and demanded of me the loan of some fine slack.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
The old varnishes, made with a base of linseed oil, sometimes fermented and thus burned the cloth, which in a short time would tear like a piece of paper.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
At last one stepped forth; a great strong man who was famous for his warlike deeds, and said, "You will not drive away the monster by merely looking at him; we must be in earnest here, but I see that you have all tuned into women, and not one of you dares to encounter the animal."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
The bravest of their youth he enlisted among his land or sea forces; and, in return for their useful alliance, he communicated to the barbarians the dangerous knowledge of military and naval arts.
— 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
6) that this was a new fashion; that bears, wolves lions, and tigers, woods, hunting-matches, &c., were represented in embroidery: and that the more pious coxcombs substituted the figure or legend of some favorite saint.
— 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
There warn’t nothing to do now but to look out sharp for the town, and not pass it without seeing it.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
They embarked in twenty-three birch-bark canoes, and, pushing up the Saint Lawrence, reached Lake Ontario, stopping for a time at the French fort of Frontenac, and avoiding the rival English port of Oswego on the southern shore, where a trade in beaver skins, disastrous to French interests, was being carried on, for the English traders sold their goods at vastly lower prices than those which the French had charged.
— from With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Hanging lamps, of strangely fantastic design, filled the wide room with delicate light.
— from The Proud Prince by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
His mouth set like a skunk trap and he looked at us as if he would have liked our scalps for his leggings.
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle
If a equals 5 inches and b equals 2 inches, c will equal 7 inches, and the length of stock for the ring will be 7 × 3.1416 = 21.991 inches,—practically 22 inches.
— from Forge Work by William L. (William Lewis) Ilgen
She opened the conversation by saying: "Bertha, I have seen so little of Stella for several years, that I do wish you would let her come next week and make me a visit.
— from A California Girl by Edward Eldridge
When the pulley revolves, centrifugal force makes WW fly outwards against the pressure of the spring, and the links EE raise C, which in turn lifts the end of lever M. A single link, N, transmits the motion from a pin on M to the double bell-crank lever O (see Fig. 66) pivoted on a standard, P, attached to the bedplate.
— from Things To Make by Archibald Williams
He will renew his life only so far as to be a spectator, not a participant.
— from Dust: A Novel by Julian Hawthorne
The officer of artillery also gave the word to his men to form lines of single files immediately in the rear of their respective guns, leaving space enough for the entrance of the approaching party, which consisted of half a dozen files of the guard, under a non-commissioned officer, and one whose manacled limbs, rather than his unaccoutred uniform, attested him to be not merely a prisoner, but a prisoner confined for some serious and flagrant offence.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson
Geography ::Niue Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga Geographic coordinates: 19 02 S, 169 52 W Map references: Oceania Area: total: 260 sq km country comparison to the world: 212 land: 260 sq km water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 64 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm Climate: tropical; modified by southeast trade winds Terrain: steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location near Mutalau settlement 68 m Natural resources: fish, arable land Land use: arable land: 11.54% permanent crops: 15.38% other: 73.08% (2005) Irrigated land: NA Natural hazards: typhoons Environment - current issues: increasing attention to conservationist practices to counter loss of soil fertility from traditional slash and burn agriculture Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection Geography - note: one of world's largest coral islands People ::Niue Population: 1,398 (July 2009 est.)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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