By his hand, also, was the Navicella in mosaic that is over the three doors of the portico in the court of S. Pietro, which is truly marvellous and deservedly praised by all beautiful minds, because in it, besides the design, there is the grouping of the Apostles, who are travailing in diverse manners through the sea-tempest, while the winds are blowing into a sail, which has so high a relief that a real one would not have more; and moreover it is difficult to have to make with those pieces of glass a unity such as that which is seen in the lights and shadows of so great a sail, which could only be equalled by the brush with great difficulty and by making every possible effort; not to mention that in a fisherman, who is fishing from a rock with a line, there is seen an attitude of extreme patience proper to that art, and in his face the hope and the wish to make a catch.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

How to manage it I knew not, but chance, that favourer of all wrongdoers, stood me in good stead.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

" Gudmund replies, "My inclination is greatly for King Olaf's friendship, and that I consider much more useful than the out-rock he desires.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

He asked me if I was not delighted with the poem.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Yes, madame, it is the custom, not from gallantry but prudence, that in time of war foreigners should be conducted to particular hotels, in order that they may remain under the eye of the government until full information can be obtained about them.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Justus [3804] inexpugnabilis , as Chrysostom holds, a just man is impregnable, and not to be overcome.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

t; if, on the other hand, a greengrocer should find himself at your refined and polite tea-table, where everybody was saying witty things, and everybody of fashion and repute tearing her friends to pieces in the most delightful manner, it is possible that the stranger would not be very talkative and by no means interesting or interested.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

And the victory of mankind is involved in the victory of Christ.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

I much fear we are going to have ructions—Peter and I. A strange and tremendous courage has come to me. Is it
— from Dimbie and I—and Amelia by Mabel Barnes-Grundy

The same mechanism which moved the upper class in the 18th century moves it in the 20th century.. (S.R.)]
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Use them after your own honor and dignity: the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Mauriceau invariably speaks of the placenta, when at the os uteri, as “entirely detached;” and adds that “even a short delay will always cause the sudden death of the child if it be not quickly delivered; for it cannot remain any time without being suffocated, as it is now obliged to breathe by its mouth, for its blood is no longer vivified by the preparation which it undergoes in the placenta, the function and use of which cease the moment it is detached from the uterine vessels with which it was connected: the result of this is the profuse flooding which is so dangerous for the mother; for if it be not promptly remedied she will quickly loose her life by this unfortunate accident.”
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Albeit, owing to Feminist misapprehensions, it is not only moving too rapidly but it is moving in a wrong direction; because in direct opposition to biological law.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

When I study to please her, she treats me with the utmost rudeness and ill manners: if I approach her person, she fights, she scratches me: if I offer a civil salute, she bites me; insomuch, that very lately, before a whole assembly of ladies and gentlemen, she ripped out a considerable part of my left cheek.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

For many years flames from blast furnaces and coke ovens testified to the waste of valuable gases, in especial the combustible carbon monoxide which is the main ingredient in producer gas.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

"'Girl'? Servant, do you mean?" instantly interested by the name of "Chester." "Servant?
— from Dorothy by Evelyn Raymond