[1334] Judaei maxime insectantur foedum hunc, et immundum apud Christianas Concubitum, ut illicitum abhorrent, et apud suos prohibent; et quod Christiani toties leprosi, amentes, tot morbili, impetigines, alphi, psorae, cutis et faciei decolorationes, tam multi morbi epidemici, acerbi, et venenosi sint, in hunc immundum concubitum rejiciunt, et crudeles in pignora vocant, qui quarta, luna profluente hac mensium illuvie concubitum hunc non perhorrescunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Quickly would they have robbed him of his return then and there, but the goddess that rules Eryx, Cypris, in pity snatched him away, while yet in the eddies, and graciously meeting him saved him to dwell on the Lilybean height.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

It is reddish-gray or somewhat buff in color with darker bands near the edge of the wings, which themselves are pinkish on the outside, and with a large clear spot near the centre of the forewing and a regular eyespot (clear in part and blue in the rest) in the centre of the hind wing.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He is my sole heir, and I intend that at my death he shall receive every cent I possess.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

It had marched slowly from the east, [Pg 96] ravaging every country it passed through.
— from Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies. Volume I by Anonymous

I was watching them with some little amusement, for the struggle in the young lady's mind between her sense of the proper, and her desire to waltz with an Honourable, was very apparent, when I was requested by Mrs. Coleman to go in search of a cloak appertaining to the turbaned old lady whom I had escorted down to supper, and who, being delicate in some way or other, required especial care in packing up.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Gayley thinks the mention of 1599 “purely dramatic” ( R. E. C. , III., p. lv).
— from Philip Massinger by Alfred Hamilton Cruickshank

The rough egotism of the English bourgeoisie would have kept its hold upon the working-class much more firmly if the Irish nature, generous to a fault, and ruled primarily by sentiment, had not intervened, and softened the cold, rational English character in part by a mixture of the races, and in part by the ordinary contact of life.
— from The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Friedrich Engels

This ruse effectually convinced inquisitive police officials that El Vivillo was really out of the country.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 127, October to March, 1909 by Various