It does not occur again, being replaced by chabitier (savetier).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

They carried Valentine away; she had revived, but could scarcely move or speak, so shaken was her frame by the attack.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Secondly, I would remind them, that as long as there are men in the world to whom the Gnothi seauton is an instinct and a command from their own nature, so long will there be metaphysicians and metaphysical speculations; that false metaphysics can be effectually counteracted by true metaphysics alone; and that if the reasoning be clear, solid and pertinent, the truth deduced can never be the less valuable on account of the depth from which it may have been drawn.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I kept my own ship outside, and moored it to a rock at the very end of the point; then I climbed a high rock to reconnoitre, but could see no sign neither of man nor cattle, only some smoke rising from the ground.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

; and Conscience, 161 note 1; Fundamental Paradox of, 48 , 130 , 136 , 137 , 173-174 , 194 Empirical Hedonism, 123-150 ; fundamental assumption of, 123 , 131 , 146 ; objections to, 460 ; Method of, takes advantage of traditional experience and of special knowledge, 477 , 479 Empirical Quantitative Hedonism, 146 Empiricism, 104 ‘End,’ ethical use of the term, 134 End, Interdependence of Method and, 8 , 83 , 84 ; adoption of any, as paramount, a phenomenon distinct from Desire, 39 Ends accepted as rational by Common Sense, 8 , 9 Energy, 237 Epicureanism, 11 , 84 Epicurus, 158 ‘Equal return,’ ambiguity of, 261 (cf. 288 seq. )
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Yet the tradition recorded by Cato seems too circumstantial, and its sponsor too respectable, to allow us to dismiss it as an idle fiction.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

A person came to demand a favour of Castruccio, and thinking he was not listening to his plea threw himself on his knees to the ground, and being sharply reproved by Castruccio, said: "Thou art the reason of my acting thus for thou hast thy ears in thy feet," whereupon he obtained double the favour he had asked.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

As a rule boys could skate and swim and were sent to dancing-school; they played a rudimentary game of baseball, football, and hockey; a few could sail a boat; still fewer had been out with a gun to shoot yellow-legs or a stray wild duck; one or two may have learned something of natural history if they came from the neighborhood of Concord; none could ride across country, or knew what shooting with dogs meant.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

that as recognised by Common Sense its limits are indeterminate.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The place, too, was associated in history with so many events,—the two men, Leone and Giovanni Saracinesca, stood there beside her, where their ancestors of the same names had stood nearly a thousand years before, their strong dark faces having the same characteristics that for centuries had marked their race, features familiar to Romans by countless statues and pictures, as the stones of Rome themselves—but for a detail of dress, it seemed to Corona as though she had been suddenly transported back to the thirteenth century.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Instead of heeding the admonition to come out from the world and have no part in its wickedness, he hath all winter been a go-between, encouraging rebellion by carrying supplies to the camp at Valley Forge——" "It was noble and kindly to take a great danger upon himself, to feed sick and starving men, and to clothe their poor bodies.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

This request was therefore regarded by Captain Semmes as an attempt to recruit for the Kearsarge from the prisoners lately landed by the Alabama, and he so presented the facts to the port admiral, who rejected the application from the Kearsarge.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

I have compiled this list myself and worked out the definitions from context with the help of Margaret West, from Leven in Fife, Scotland, and also by referring to a word list found in a collection of poems by Robert Burns, "Chamber's Scots Dialect Dictionary from the 17th century to the Present" c. 1911 and "Scots-English English-Scots Dictionary" Lomond Books c. 1998.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

Foster Bailey (Wr); 26Jan72; R522066. BAILEY, CAROLYN SHERWIN.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

They were crossed between a sea green and a pond blue but her black eyebrows were obviously alike and offered strange contrast to the loose, red, bobbed curls she wore, clubbed about her ears.
— from The Shriek: A Satirical Burlesque by Charles Somerville

‘The resources of art prove baneful: its masters retired baffled, Chiron, son of Philyra, and Melampus, son of Amythaon.’
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

I went, because he was Mornac; I thought that I was entitled to a bureau receipt, but could scarcely demand one from the chief of the entire department who had taken over the bureau solely in order to reform it, root and branch.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The Reed Bunting ( Cynchramus Schœniclus ) has been separated from the other members of its family on account of the peculiar formation of its beak, and though closely resembling them in many particulars, certainly differs from them in its habits.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

United States: chief of state: President George W. BUSH (since 20 January 2001) and Vice President Richard B. CHENEY (since 20 January 2001); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President George W. BUSH (since 20 January 2001) and Vice President Richard B. CHENEY (since 20 January 2001); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president with Senate approval elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by a college of representatives who are elected directly from each state; president and vice president serve four-year terms; election last held 7 November 2000 (next to be held NA November 2004) election results: George W. BUSH elected president; percent of popular vote - George W. BUSH (Republican Party) 48%, Albert A. GORE, Jr. (Democratic Party) 48%, Ralph NADER (Green Party) 3%, other 1% Uruguay: chief of state: President Jorge BATLLE (since 1 March 2000) and Vice President Luis HIERRO (since 1 March 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Jorge BATLLE (since 1 March 2000) and Vice President Luis HIERRO (since 1 March 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Council of Ministers appointed by the president with parliamentary approval elections: president and vice president elected on the same ticket by popular vote for five-year terms; election last held 31 October 1999 with run-off election on 28 November 1999 (next to be held NA 2004) election results: Jorge BATLLE elected president; percent of vote - Jorge BATLLE 52% in a runoff against Tabare VAZQUEZ 44% Uzbekistan: chief of state: President Islom KARIMOV (since 24 March 1990, when he was elected president by the then Supreme Soviet) head of government: Prime Minister Otkir SULTONOV (since 21 December 1995) cabinet: Cabinet of Ministers appointed by the president with approval of the Supreme Assembly elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 9 January 2000 (next to be held NA January 2005); note - extension of President KARIMOV's original term for an additional five years overwhelmingly approved - 99.6% of total vote in favor - by national referendum held 27 March 1995; prime minister and deputy ministers appointed by the president election results: Islom KARIMOV reelected president; percent of vote -
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency