But in the East Indies the Dutch maintained their trade and power, gradually extending from island to island, until they gained—what they still possess—an almost complete monopoly of spice production. — from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows
pitouse goddes everichone Ful
935 Wommen ben wyse in short avysement; And lat sen how your wit shal now avayle; And what that I may helpe, it shal not fayle.' `Go,' quod Criseyde, `and uncle, trewely, I shal don al my might, me to restreyne 940 From weping in his sighte, and bisily, Him for to glade, I shal don al my peyne, And in myn herte seken every veyne; If to this soor ther may be founden salve, It shal not lakken, certain, on myn halve.' 945 Goth Pandarus, and Troilus he soughte, Til in a temple he fond him allone, As he that of his lyf no lenger roughte; But to the pitouse goddes everichone Ful — from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
pale gray eyes fixed
" The girl still sat with her face averted from her lover, her hands hanging listlessly in her lap, and her pale gray eyes fixed upon the last low streak of crimson dying out behind the trunks of the trees. — from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
[415] An extensive province of Asia along the northern side of the Persian Gulf, extending from Carpella (either C. Bombareek or C. Isack) on the E. to the river Bagradas (Nabend) on the W. According to Marcian the distance between these points was 4250 stadia. — from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3)
Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo
pagan goddess Eástre from
Hence the success of the more or less considered policy of the early Christian missionaries to confuse the heathen beliefs, and merge them in the [ xiii ] new faith, an interesting example of which is to be seen in the transference to the Christian festival of Easter of the attributes of the pagan goddess Eástre, from whom it took even the name. — from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber
plenty good enough fish
A value, though marred in the matter of statistics by inaccuracies; for the catfish is a plenty good enough fish for anybody, and there are no panthers that are 'impervious to man.' Later still comes Alexander Mackay, of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, with a better digestion, and no catfish dinner aboard, and feels as follows— 'The Mississippi! — from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
For we have provided great entertainments for the ears by inventing and modulating the variety and nature of sounds; we have learned to survey the stars, not only those that are fixed, but also those which are improperly called wandering; and the man who has acquainted himself with all their revolutions and motions is fairly considered to have a soul resembling the soul of that Being who has created those stars in the heavens: for when Archimedes described in a sphere the motions of the moon, sun, and five planets, he did the very same thing as Plato’s God, in his Timæus, who made the world, causing one revolution to adjust motions differing as much as possible in their slowness and velocity. — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations
Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nolentes quod predicti Gardianus et fratres aut successores sui ratione premissorum per nos vel heredes nostros, Justiciarios, Escaetores, Vicecomites aut alios balliuos seu Ministros nostros quoscunque occasionentur, molestentur in aliquo, seu grauentur. — from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little
pay Giraldi every farthing
Yesterday Golm throws half a million into the market; I keep up the price notwithstanding to thirty; this morning that abominable speech of Lasker's--down they go to twenty; this afternoon I have to pay Giraldi every farthing of the Golm mortgage. — from The Breaking of the Storm, Vol. III. by Friedrich Spielhagen
present geological epoch from
Whatever be the geological age of the latter skull, I conceive it is quite safe (on the ordinary principles of paleontological reasoning) to assume that the former takes us to, at least, the further side of the vague biological limit, which separates the present geological epoch from that which immediately preceded it. — from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
purplish gloss except for
The adult in its breeding dress has the back black, each feather having two square white spots; the head and neck are black with a purplish gloss, except for two crescentic bands on the fore neck, which are longitudinally striped with white and black. — from Birds of Britain by J. Lewis (John Lewis) Bonhote
Patent grand Exercise Frames
That the physical education of the fair sex was attended to, long before these days of female gymnastic exercises, is evidenced by the following advertisement in the Morning Post , February 20, 1810: “ Patent grand Exercise Frames particularly intended for Young Ladies, the use of which will not only remove deformities, but will infallibly produce health, strength, symmetry, beauty, and superior elegance of deportment,” &c. The lower classes in the Metropolis were naturally debarred from manly sports, by want of room; so that [304] almost their sole muscular exercise was Skittles. — from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton
On the other hand, if he eludes his captors and makes a clean getaway and his army is again unfortunate, and he is captured the second time, the perfectly good escape from previous captivity must go unpunished and he must be treated as a prisoner of war, just as though he had not made the successful dash for liberty and further glory. — from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell
petticoat government exclaimed Frank
I ..." "Well, this is a pretty specimen of petticoat government," exclaimed Frank, who had come in meanwhile unnoticed, and had been a witness of the little scene. — from Under a Charm: A Novel. Vol. III by E. Werner
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