Now, by way of having a resting-place during his excursions, avoiding the wretched cookery—which has been trying its best to poison me during the last four months, while you have manfully resisted its effects for as many years,—and obtaining a bed on which it is possible to slumber, Monte Cristo has furnished for himself a temporary abode where you first found him; but, to prevent the possibility of the Tuscan government taking a fancy to his enchanted palace, and thereby depriving him of the advantages naturally expected from so large an outlay of capital, he has wisely enough purchased the island, and taken its name.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Northern equivalent for story of, 353 Garm.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

11 Now, by a treaty of alliance with Rome, decreed at Sikyon in B.C. 198, it was provided that Rome should receive no envoys from separate states of the league, but only from the league itself.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

Mine own I kept, Nor quarrels sought, nor ever falsely swore.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

A most important principle of good government in a popular constitution is that no executive functionaries should be appointed by popular election, neither by the votes of the people themselves, nor by those of their representatives.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Northern equivalent for, siege of, 350 , 361 , 363 Tübingen (tē′bing-en).
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

There are many other charges which have no great distinction from some of these which have been enumerated, but as nobody hitherto has classed them as ordinaries I suppose there could be no excuse for so introducing them, but the division of any heraldic charges into ordinaries and sub-ordinaries, and their separation from other figures, seems to a certain extent incomprehensible and very unnecessary.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The Bernardines-Bénédictines slept on straw and wore hair shirts, which produced chronic irritation and jerky spasms; they knew not the taste of meat or the warmth of a fire; they took turns in making reparation, and no excuse for shirking was permitted.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Indeed you and I have no excuse for such indifference Mr Egremont.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It was not easy for standers-by to decide whether or not he was in earnest.
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

What would not one give to see the sheykh, who is himself a purely Oriental figure, seated in this splendid hall of his fathers as it once was, on one of the now superseded divans, the marbles of his floor uncovered save for his discarded Turkish rugs, the fountain sending forth its rose-water spray, perfume burning in the silver receivers, and no encumbering furniture save piles of brocaded cushions and a jar or two on the gilded shelf.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

My wife sends her love, and says she longs to receive her husband's friend; that his sickness must be no excuse, for she will nurse him.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

In referring to this narrow escape from sharing the fate of Pharaoh, Napoleon remarked to Las Casas: "This would [125] have furnished all the preachers in Christendom with a splendid text against me."
— from Military Career of Napoleon the Great An Account of the Remarkable Campaigns of the "Man of Destiny"; Authentic Anecdotes of the Battlefield as Told by the Famous Marshals and Generals of the First Empire by Montgomery B. Gibbs

And though we were struck blind from that first moment, our scholarship in the subject would lack no essential feature so long as our memory remained.
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

So it was now, that Ada had consented to become the wife of the elder brother,—of Tom Reckenthorpe, with his home among the slaves,—although she, with all her New England feelings strong about her, hated slavery and all its adjuncts.
— from Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

The duties of the archdeaconry of Evreux, comprising, as it did, nearly one hundred and sixty parishes, were 23 particularly heavy, yet the young priest fulfilled them for seven years, and M. de la Colombière explains to us how he acquitted himself of them: "The regularity of his visits, the fervour of his enthusiasm, the improvement and the good order which he established in the parishes, the relief of the poor, his interest in all sorts of charity, none of which escaped his notice: all this showed well that without being a bishop he had the ability and merit of one, and that there was no service which the Church might not expect from so great a subject."
— from The Makers of Canada: Bishop Laval by Adrien Leblond

Mrs. Rumsen, somewhat surprised and aware of the imminence of a revelation the nature of which she could not even faintly surmise, bent over Camilla kindly and touched her gently on the shoulder.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

There was a narrow escape from shipwreck in entering the narrow and somewhat tortuous mouth of the great harbor, after which the Governor was received by the municipal functionaries with all the pomp and dignity of which the capital was capable.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson