THE LATTER CONCEDETH HER TO HIM, AN SHE WILL; BUT SHE REFUSETH TO RETURN WITH HIM AND MESSER RICCIARDO DYING, SHE BECOMETH
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Mais rien de sérieux.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Quem mihi regent dabis (saith Chrysostom) non curis plenum ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

‘My motive,’ returned Doctor Strong, ‘is to make some suitable provision for a cousin, and an old playfellow, of Annie’s.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The arms of Wareham afford an instance of fleurs-de-lis reversed, and the Corporate Seals of Liskeard and Tamworth merit reproduction, did space permit, from the designs of the fleurs-de-lis which there appear.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Adj. malevolent, unbenevolent; unbenign; ill-disposed, ill- intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived; evil-minded, evil-disposed; black-browed[obs3]. malicious; malign, malignant; rancorous; despiteful, spiteful; mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent; unamiable, uncharitable; maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"The muscles relax during sleep, but the heart, lungs, and circulatory system are constantly at work; they get no rest.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Provided with this portrait, with eleven golden apples, and with the magic ring Draupnir, Skirnir now rode off to Jötun-heim, to fulfil his embassy.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

“That speech of Egremont was the most really democratic speech that I ever read,” said the grey-headed gentleman.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

By means of these works Giottino had acquired so good a name, imitating his master both in design and in invention, as it has been told, that there was said to be in him the spirit of Giotto himself, both because of the vividness of his colouring and of his mastery in draughtsmanship; and in the year 1343, on July 2, when the Duke of Athens was driven out by the people and when he had renounced the sovereignty and restored their liberty to the Florentines, Giottino was forced by the twelve Reformers of the State, and in particular by the prayers of Messer Agnolo Acciaiuoli, then a very great citizen, who had great influence with him, to paint in contempt, on the tower of the Palace of the Podestà, the said Duke and his followers, who were Messer Ceritieri Visdomini, Messer Maladiasse, his Conservator, and Messer Ranieri da San Gimignano, all with the cap of Justice ignominiously on their heads.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

In the hall, a few feet from the music room door, she encountered Polly herself, with her eyes shining and her face aglow with the beauty and fragrance of the April afternoon.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook

Soon the reverend mother rose discreetly, said good-bye, expressed her thanks for the visit.
— from Old People and the Things That Pass by Louis Couperus

She had hardly time to get down stairs, before Mr. H.... opened my room door softly, and came in, now undressed, in his night-gown and cap, with two lighted wax candles, and bolting the door, gave me, though I expected him, some sort of alarm.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Morrisel was invited to dinner on the following Sunday at the château of Madame Regnault de Saint-Jean-d'Angely, situated on the other side of the forbidden territory.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

[2] "Ni pour le jugement, ni pour le raisonnement, ni pour aucune autre faculté de la pensée proprement dite nous n'avons la moindre raison de supposer
— from All Men are Ghosts by L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall) Jacks

explain to mean: 'rerum orbem mobilem rotat, dum se immobilem ipsa conseruat.'
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

It is inaccessible, except through other apartments of the palace; so small, as barely to admit the parties whose presence was necessary to the ceremony; and, though most richly decorated, so dark, that the features of those standing within it can barely be recognised by each other.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

How I'm going to get through them, with things going as they are;—meeting that Judas there at the bedside, three times a day, and trying to keep my infernal temper from making me disgrace myself—" "Red, dear,—" She rose and came to him, putting her hands on his shoulders and looking straight up into his face.
— from Mrs. Red Pepper by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

The 'Maklu' ritual deals so largely with the fire-god that a specimen from another series, to illustrate the position of Ea and Marduk in the incantations, seems called for.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

Perhaps ... unless, indeed, it were the handsome octoroon, slightly older than the [Pg 204] others, but even more richly dressed, so free and noble in her movements, and treated by the others with such friendly deference.
— from In Morocco by Edith Wharton