While she lay burned by consuming fever, pallid, exhausted, reduced almost to a skeleton, with parched lips and mouth, there moved around her bedside, ministering to her trifling wants with a mock gratification and assiduity, the work of a fiend glutting over the ruin she had caused, the noble form of Kummoo, her features full of beauty, her eyes flashing with love, her every motion one of grace and dignity.
— from Tippoo Sultaun: A tale of the Mysore war by Meadows Taylor

The Czech press expressed regret at the absence of Russians and great satisfaction at the presence of Poles.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol. 8, Pt. 2, No. 1, July 1918 by Various

Lord, I believe a rest remains To all thy people known; A rest where pure enjoyment reigns, And thou art loved alone.
— from The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. (Edmund Simon) Lorenz

Nor could cessation of hostilities benefit any of the belligerent powers, except Rome and Turkey: and they, poor things!
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

It will be necessary for you, doubtless, sometimes to ask the attention of the Marquis by letter; and where you think the moment requires essentially your presence, it is understood you will come to Paris express, returning again to Amsterdam as quickly as circumstances will admit.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

Obj. 4: Further, if there be in the semen any principle productive of the sensitive soul, this principle either remains after the animal is begotten, or it does not remain.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

For such cultivation as they were capable of these people used primitive earth rakes, and they also possessed coarse mallets, sticks, and net bags in which they kept their stores.
— from In the Forbidden Land An account of a journey in Tibet, capture by the Tibetan authorities, imprisonment, torture and ultimate release by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

It was rather a measure of political expediency, reluctantly adopted, to attain the double end of securing the pecuniary grant of which the government stood in pressing need, and of preventing Philip from executing the threats of invasion which Alva had but too plainly made in his interview with the French envoy extraordinary, Montbéron d'Auzances, and the ambassador, Sebastien de l'Aubespine [1213] —threats which nothing would have been more likely to convert into stern realities than the concession of the churches for [Pg 556] which the Protestants clamored.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Two Indians—one of them a sorcerer, Pigarouich, ‘me descouvrant avec grande sincerité toutes ses malices’—‘making a clean breast of his tricks’—vowed that they did not shake the lodge—that a great wind entered fort promptement et rudement , and they added that the ‘tabernacle’ (as Lejeune very injudiciously calls the Medicine Lodge), ‘is sometimes so strong that a single man can hardly stir it.’
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

The poor exchange rice, and tobacco, and several potatoes, for pieces of meat.
— from The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous