By means of these works Giottino had acquired so good a name, imitating his master both in design and in invention, as it has been told, that there was said to be in him the spirit of Giotto himself, both because of the vividness of his colouring and of his mastery in draughtsmanship; and in the year 1343, on July 2, when the Duke of Athens was driven out by the people and when he had renounced the sovereignty and restored their liberty to the Florentines, Giottino was forced by the twelve Reformers of the State, and in particular by the prayers of Messer Agnolo Acciaiuoli, then a very great citizen, who had great influence with him, to paint in contempt, on the tower of the Palace of the Podestà, the said Duke and his followers, who were Messer Ceritieri Visdomini, Messer Maladiasse, his Conservator, and Messer Ranieri da San Gimignano, all with the cap of Justice ignominiously on their heads.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Mingled with this mood, however, was the philosophic investigation characteristic of the man of science.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dombrowski aided the French in the capture of Rome, and Kniaziewicz was put in command of the garrison on the Capitol (p. 31 ).
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

If your ladyship would wish to have the boy produced in corroboration of this statement, I can lay my hand upon him at any time."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The degree of tension which it manifests when the thigh is in the extended position is chiefly owing to its connexion with the fascia lata.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

[ These words of Josephus are remarkable, that the lawgiver of the Jews required of the priests a double degree of parity, in comparison of that required of the people, of which he gives several instances immediately.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Other letters recorded its perils in Committee of the whole, and by and by its victory, by just the skin of its teeth, on third reading and final passage.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

a mountain which appears to be 60 or 70 miles long bearing E. & W is about 25 miles distant from this river on the Stard Side Notherley of Pot Island I walked on Shore and killed 4 deer & an Elk, & a beaver in the evening we killed a large fat Bear, which we unfortunately lost in the river, after being Shot took the water & was Carried under a drift passed in course of this day three Islands, two of them Covered with tall timber & a 3rd with willows The after part of this day was worm & the Misquitors troublesome.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But to let my reader into a secret, this knowledge of upper life, though very necessary for preventing mistakes, is no very great resource to a writer whose province is comedy, or that kind of novels which, like this I am writing, is of the comic class.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

After seeming to hesitate what to do with it he placed it carefully on the table, splintered end upwards.
— from The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh

Perhaps it carried off too much of this dirt."
— from Dotty Dimple Out West by Sophie May

As a solitary man for ever brooding on the past, I will not deny that I may have been led to paint that past in colours other than its own.
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

But it will always remain a painful chapter, and it will only be by mutual forbearance and the most determined efforts of people of good will on both sides of the Atlantic that the growth of a most lamentable misunderstanding between our two peoples in consequence of those unfortunate episodes will be prevented.
— from People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad by Philip Gibbs

Having sighted his vessel, the pilot whose turn it is to go on duty hurries below and packs the valise which contains such things as he wishes to take home, for this is his method of going ashore; and when he has departed, if he is the last one of the pilot-crew, the little vessel returns herself to port in charge of the sailing-master, cook, and “boy,” to refit and take on a new set of men.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

And, as we have seen, the “bluff” worked to perfection, possibly in consequence of the slight, but none the less perceptible, tone of sarcasm in which Jack made the offer.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

Another portion may be treated with a concentrated solution of cyanide of potassium, which produces a blood-red colour, more or less intense, according to the quantity of picric acid present, in consequence of the formation of iso-purpuric acid.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

That Sherman was entirely satisfied with Smith's part in carrying out the plan, is shown beyond dispute by his report, which bears "willing testimony to the completeness of this whole business.
— from Heroes of the Great Conflict; Life and Services of William Farrar Smith, Major General, United States Volunteer in the Civil War by James Harrison Wilson