I have already given them a hint of this by saying that during my absence three letters had arrived, of which I could for the present divulge nothing further than that it was unlikely I should be able to go with them to Paris, but that perhaps I might come later, or possibly go elsewhere; so they must not depend on me.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Go your ways in the name of God, prosecute good enterprises, show your king what is amiss, and never counsel him with regard unto your own particular profit, for the public loss will swallow up the private benefit.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Net insertion (fig. 136 ).—These diamonds make a very pretty grounding either set separately, or in a continuous pattern.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Moreover, as the very sight of her was dangerous to society, a special skin bonnet, with fringes falling over her face down to her breast, hid her from the public gaze, even some time after she had recovered her normal state.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In Stockholm on this day a leaf-market is held at which thousands of May-poles ( Maj Stǎnger ), from six inches to twelve feet high, decorated with leaves, flowers, slips of coloured paper, gilt egg-shells strung on reeds, and so on, are exposed for sale.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

She would have to go to church with Percy Gryce every Sunday.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Josef K. Psychologische Grundlegung eines Systems der Wert-Theorie.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Jamais, pendant tout le temps qu'il vécut et qu'il eut de l'autorité, les Persiens et Tartres (Persans et Tatars) ne purent gagner en Syrie la plus petite portion de terrain.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

The Cape of Good Hope, though popularly called, and perhaps pretty generally esteemed so, is not in truth the most southern point of Africa.
— from The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Arthur Phillip

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— from Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick

My shame was wafted in each passing gale, Each swelling tide came loaded with my wrongs; And echo sounded forth, from faction's voice, The traitor Essex.—Was't not hard, my queen,
— from The Earl of Essex: A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Henry Jones

My husband liked me to read to him whilst he sketched, and I see by his diary of 1869 that some of the works he listened to in the course of that year were: "Les Couleuvres," by Louis Veuillot; Victor Jacquemond's "Voyage en Italie;" "l'Art en Hollande," and "La Littérature Anglaise," by Taine "Le Postscriptum;" George Eliot's "Silas Marner;" Sidney Colvin's "Academy Notes;" Tennyson's "In Memoriam;" Légouvé's "l'Art de la lecture;" "Chateaubriand et son groupe littéraire," "Béranger et de Sénancourt," by Sainte-Beuve, whose talent as a critic he greatly admired.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

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— from State of the Union Addresses by George Washington

[185] myself enchained by his pleasant, graceful, easy style, varied knowledge, just views, and kindly spirit.
— from Stories of Authors, British and American by Edwin Watts Chubb

Now that travelling is no longer a luxury for the rich, and thousands of people go every summer to spend their holidays among the mountains of Europe, and ladies climb Mont Blanc or ramble among the Carpathians, there must be many who would like to know something of the secret of the hills, their origin, their architecture, and the forces that made them what they are.
— from The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers. by H. N. (Henry Neville) Hutchinson