The inflexible Roman returned from Anagni with an increase of reputation and zeal; and, on the first opportunity, the games of the place Navona, he tried to inflame the casual dispute of some boys and mechanics into a general rising of the people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
Lytton essayed also, with considerable popular success, the romantic novel in The Pilgrims of the Rhine and Zanoni , and tried the ghost story in The Haunted and the Haunters .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long
They also say that divination has a universal existence, since Providence has; and they define it as an act on account of certain results, as Zeno and Chrysippus, in the second book of his treatise on Divination, and Athenodorus and Posidonius, in the twelfth book of his discourses on Natural Philosophy, and in the fifth book of his treatise on Divination, all agree in saying; for Panætius denies that it has any certain foundation.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius
“All beyond the river, and Zúbova, and in the Krémlin....
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
Gibbon says (p. 84) that there is no reason to believe the country (of Italy) less populous in the age of the Antonines, than in that of Romulus; and Zumpt acknowledges that we have no satisfactory knowledge of the state of Italy at that early age.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, "The Moors—the Moors have landed!
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
There is no doubt that the magnificent ruins at Zershell are those of Iol, and that its name is an abbreviation of Cæsarea Iol. 3316 Or New Town.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, “The Moors—the Moors have landed!
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
British Resident at Zante, and Lt.-Gov. of Jersey.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton
ACTINOZOA (Gr. aktin , a ray; and zoön , an animal).
— from The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Henry Alleyne Nicholson
John and Rupert and Zebedee and Daniel, all these—no one has spoken roughly to us.
— from Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young
Rothman and Zwiebel asked with one voice; but before Milton could answer the sample-room door opened and a young woman entered.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass
—The Preface contains a critical estimate of Remorse and Zapolya , and of the translation of Schiller's Wallenstein .
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
He gained thus much at least by his retirement at Zarephath; and surely it was not a little.
— from Elijah the Tishbite. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. V by Charles Henry Mackintosh
From that we journeyed on past Retzbath and Zellingen and came to Karlstadt; here I showed my pass and they let me go on.
— from Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries by Albrecht Dürer
Rest and zest and powder to shout and color and ball and sweet word black.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein
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