Starkad was induced by this to let Helge go scot-free; saying that a man whose ready and assured courage so surely betokened manliness, ought to be spared; for he vowed that a man ill deserved death whose brave spirit was graced with such a dogged will to resist.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

Marseilles is damped down, not quenched; to be quenched in blood.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Once and again he introduces Love and Death, who dispute concerning him; for, like Dante and all the nobler souls of Italy, he is much occupied with thoughts of the grave, and his true mistress is death; death at first as the worst of all sorrows and disgraces, with a clod of the field for its brain; afterwards, death in its high distinction, its detachment from vulgar needs, the angry stains of life and action escaping fast.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

Mung is an old word for mixed food, but MUNGARLY is doubtless derived from the Lingua Franca , MANGIAR , to eat.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

But my Lord Ashly, I observe, is a most clear man in matters of accounts, and most ingeniously did discourse and explain all matters.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To this it may be added that most important discoveries demand a display of national power which the Government of a small State is unable to make; in great nations the Government entertains a greater number of general notions, and is more completely disengaged from the routine of precedent and the egotism of local prejudice; its designs are conceived with more talent, and executed with more boldness.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

¿Y qué me sucede? Aquí, a la puerta del cielo he de presenciar la prueba más irritante de desigualdad.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

It is mentioned in Document D-632, which I now introduce as Exhibit GB-237.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

======================================================================== Costa Rica Introduction Costa Rica Background: Costa Rica is a Central American success story: since the late 19th century, only two brief periods of violence have marred its democratic development.
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

said Muishkin, in deepest distress.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I killed him, your noble brother, and from the moment I deliberately determined to do so I became leagued with the tempter, who lured me madly on.
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

And if that were so, then there can be no question of "mentions in dispatches," D.S.O.'s and D.C.M.'s.
— from The Retreat from Mons By one who shared in it by Arthur Corbett-Smith

The long bones belong in general to the apparatus of locomotion, in which they form a kind of levers that the muscles move in different directions.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat