Nor are these pretty new builders of dead stones written or pricked down in my Book of Life.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Shandy,—a little man,—but of high fancy:—he rushed into the duke of Monmouth's affair:—nor, secondly, in this place, do I mean that particular species of knots called bow-knots;—there is so little address, or skill, or patience required in the unloosing them, that they are below my giving any opinion at all about them.—But by the knots I am speaking of, may it please your reverences to believe, that I mean good, honest, devilish tight, hard knots, made bona fide, as Obadiah made his;—in which there is no quibbling provision made by the duplication and return of the two ends of the strings thro' the annulus or noose made by the second implication of them—to get them slipp'd and undone by.—I hope you apprehend me.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Phr. desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Nothing sweet boy, but yet like prayers divine, I must each day say o’er the very same, Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, Even as when first I hallowed thy fair name.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And so, if Adelaide could make connection with Port Darwin it meant connection with the whole world.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Even at the present day, in my old age, I never take a bed with me when I visit the townships belonging to my commendary; and if I do take one, it is merely because the cavaliers who accompany me may not think I take no bed with me, because I have no good one.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Gugmang nagtiúnay sa dughan, A love that has penetrated deep into my breast.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Eat at your pleasure, drink in measure.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

That is the practical difference it makes to us to have true ideas; that, therefore, is the meaning of truth, for it is all that truth is known-as.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I was much pleased with this dinner for the many excellent stories told by Mr. Coventry, which I have put down in my book of tales and so shall not mention them here.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The constitutional treatment of cases, liable to be succeeded by purulent deposits, is most important; for during the healing of the [Pg 64] primary wound, the system may be influenced by remedies, which may be subsequently quite useless.
— from On the origin of inflammation of the veins and of the causes, consequences, and treatment of purulent deposits by Lee, Henry, M.D.

The building appears to have covered the eminence, and from thence extended to the shores of the sea. Tacitus, and other ancient writers, speak of Amathus as the oldest city in Cyprus; at the present day, it may be described as the one of which the traces have been most ruthlessly destroyed.
— from Cyprus: Historical and Descriptive by Franz von Löher

Much difficulty is found in distributing the arms according to the act of Congress providing for it from the failure of the proper departments in many of the States to make regular returns.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Howbeit (most gracious prince and lord) we are to sollicite your Highnesse, not onely about the articles to be propounded concerning the losses aforesaide, but more principally, for certain sinister reports and superstituous slanders, wherwith certaine of your subiects, not seeking for peace, haue falsly informed your maiesty, and your most honorable and discreete Councel: affirming that at the time of the aforesaid arrest your marchants were barbarously intreated, that they were cast into lothsom prisons, drenched in myre and water vp to the neck, restrained from al conference and company of men, and also that their meat was thrown vnto them, as a bone to a dog, with many other enormities, which they haue most slanderously deuised concerning the master general aforesaid, and his people, and haue published them in these dominions: vpon the occasion of which falshoods certain marchants of our parts, and of other regions of Alemain (who, of your special beneuolence, were indued with certaine priuileges and fauours in your citie of London, and in other places) were, as malefactors, apprehended and caried to prison, vntil such time as the trueth was more apparant.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

And thus they continue unto this present day, inciting men to these evil deeds, even as it is told of Omar the Caliph.
— from Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell

Drawn from your tender words of yesterday When, looking in my eyes in the old way You told me of your life, how passing dear It might have been.
— from Poems by Sophia Margaretta Hensley

Ojo Caliente, a modern village 54 , 96 - 97 chinked walls of 142 Old Mashongnavi, tradition concerning occupation of 47 - 48 Openings, splayed, in Ketchipauan church 82 walls of Tâaaiyalana structures 90 Kin-tiel walls 92 , 93 oblique Zuñi 98 , 207 - 208 to kivas 113 - 114 in wall of Zuñi kiva 114 in lee walls 182 Openings of Pueblo houses banded with whitewash 145 - 146 Oraibi, retirement of Sikyátki inhabitants to 24 departure of Ketchina and Paroquet peoples from 27 settlement by the Bears of 27 traditions regarding first settlement of 27 settlement of the Water people at 33 affray between the Walpi and 35 description of 76 - 77 families occupying 105 - 108 direction of kivas of 115 - 116 rare use of plastering on outer walls of 144 Oraibi, notched ladders described and figured 157 - 158 stone steps at, figured 161 corral walls at, laid without mortar 147 distribution of gentes of 104 - 105 kiva for women 134 list of kivas of 137 kiva, hatchway of 201 corrals at, large size of 214 Oraibi-Shumopavi boundary stone 28 Oraibi wash, ruins on the 54 - 56 Orientation of kivas 115 - 116 Ovens at Pescado 95 upon roofs 151 various kinds described 162 - 166 in Zuñi 164 - 165 Oven-shaped structures described and figured 167 Oven-surface imbedded with pottery scales 139 P Paintings on kiva walls 131 Palát Kivabi, the pristine habitat of the Squash and Sun people of Tusayan 25 , 29 Paneled doors in modern pueblos 184 - 186 Parallelogramic form of Tusayan buildings 102 - 118 Paroquet people, settlement in Shumopavi of the 37 Partitions in Ketchipauan church 82 Partitions of upper story supported by beams 144 Passageways, Shupaulovi 72 Shumopavi 74 rarity of, at Oraibi 76 description of 180 - 182
— from A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228 by Victor Mindeleff