A wild, pathetic voice, chants a hymn common among the slaves: “O there’ll be mourning, mourning, mourning, O there’ll be mourning, at the judgment-seat of Christ!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Queſte nõ lauorano ma ſtanno in caſa teſſendo ſtore casse de palma et altre coſe neceſſarie acaſa ſua mangiano cochi batate vcceli figui longui vno palmo canne dolci et peſci volatori cõ altre coſe
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta
el sacerdote que V. encontró con Pío VII), corrió al lado de 20 Su Santidad; y, al verse los dos ancianos, exclamaron: Consummatum est!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón
In only four of the cases was the platysma visibly contracted; and it did not begin to contract until the patients began to cry.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
How Solomon Built Himself A Royal Palace, Very Costly And Splendid; And How He Solved The Riddles Which Were Sent Him By Hiram.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus
If he be elegans formarum spectator he shall find many faults in physiognomy, and ill colour: if form, one side of the face likely bigger than the other, or crooked nose, bad eyes, prominent veins, concavities about the eyes, wrinkles, pimples, red streaks, freckles, hairs, warts, neves, inequalities, roughness, scabredity, paleness, yellowness, and as many colours as are in a turkeycock's neck, many indecorums in their other parts; est quod desideres, est quod amputes , one leers, another frowns, a third gapes, squints, &c. And 'tis true that he saith,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
1886 Jean de la Fontaine [Pg v] CONTENTS As Essay on the Life and Works of Jean de la Fontaine
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine
SYN: Likelihood, presumption, verisimilitude, chance, appearance.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Larger Image Plate V. CHICHI About forty years old From the Collection of the Author Size: 3.6 x 5.10
— from The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by William De Lancey Ellwanger
It is a pleasant village, containing a population of about three thousand, who are noted for their intelligence and general refinement.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing
As the army and navy now stand at a peace strength of some 700,000 men, and as these men are all in the prime of their working power, the loss in wages and in productive work may be put very conservatively at 600,000,000 marks, which brings the cost of the support of the military establishment of Germany up to 2,000,000,000 marks and more per annum, or $500,000,000.
— from Germany and the Germans from an American Point of View by Price Collier
Petunia violacea, crossed and self-fertilised plants compared for four generations.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
An old woman comes tottering by on high pattens, very comfortably and nicely clad.
— from Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot by Wilkie Collins
IV. rebus extingui vel suffocari poterit, videlicet cum aceto acuto aut cum urina antiqua vel arena, sive filtro ter in aceto imbibito et toties desiccato ignem iam dictum suffocas.
— from Gunpowder and Ammunition, Their Origin and Progress by H. W. L. (Henry William Lovett) Hime
"Very good," said the abbé; "and, to make the acquaintance of our Parisian visitors, come and have lunch with us after high mass on Sunday."
— from My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821 by Alexandre Dumas
The next is the concentric system, where the sand arranges itself in circles, having the same centre with the plate; and the third is the compound system, where the figures assumed by the sand are compounded of the other two, producing very complicated and beautiful forms.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville
punsísuk a for vertical things to be situated packed very closely and tightly.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
She had been, elaborately trained by her maestro as to how she was to step the stage, what attitudes she was to assume, etc., and the first part of the programme she performed very creditably, and with sole reference to her instructions.
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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