In the legislation cited above, Charlemagne had followed his father’s example which favored a training in Gregorian music under Roman teachers, as developed in the schools of Rome.
— from The Medieval Latin Hymn by Ruth Ellis Messenger
They at least make us ready to attach due weight to the circumstantial and credible records of the voyages of the Norsemen.
— from The Dawn of Canadian History : A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock
The serfs flung off the heavy yoke, and went to the worst excesses, burning and wrecking the palaces of their former masters, utterly ruining them and driving them out of the country.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various
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