Quibus rebus et insidias vitavit, et corpus ad omnem virtutis patientiam duravit.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
This remarkable experiment is very easy to carry out, and sodium is now easily procured at any shop where chemicals are sold.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier
The people were taught that it was possible, if one were rich enough in victims, even to bankrupt heaven.
— from Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 by Frank F. (Frank Field) Ellinwood
But the same restless energy is visible even in his life at Gadshill, which was his home from 1860 to 1870.
— from Victorian Worthies: Sixteen Biographies by George Henry Blore
'Favour can't help coming by rotation, except in very extraordinary circumstances, and he was ahead of me with you, and takes my due, and 'twould be hard on me if I weren't thoroughly indemnified.'
— from Diana of the Crossways — Complete by George Meredith
her n sampt derselbig en relionszvorwant en irem vorigen erbitten nach inzulassen aber die ko nigliche may estä t kont nicht befind en dasz sulchesz vorstentnisz der geg en hulff halben deren sich die chur vnd fursten sampt iren relionszvorwantt en erbiten theten die glichait oder reciprocu m mit sich breichte derhalben were der ko niglichen may estä t genedigesz beger en ob die gesant en nach ferner befelich hetten der gege n hulff oder reciproci halben dasz sie
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman
That unfortunate mountain had recklessly expended its volcanic energies in early life, and was now left without a voice to answer the thundering shouts of its mighty comrade.
— from Tent Life in Siberia A New Account of an Old Undertaking; Adventures among the Koraks and Other Tribes In Kamchatka and Northern Asia by George Kennan
There are scores of lead pigs of the Roman era in various English museums, many marked " ex argent ."
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola
The policy of the poor-laws as administered is to deter the needy from applying for relief except in very extreme cases.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger
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