lumière , f. , ce qui rend les objets visibles.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

When Ráma, lord of valour true, Has gained the earth, his right and due, Then, free from duty's binding debt, My vanished sin shall I forget.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

For then the Light N p which in the fourth Prism is more refracted, will become fuller and stronger when the Light OP, which in the third Prism HJK is more refracted, vanishes at P; and afterwards when the less refracted Light OT vanishes at T, the less refracted Light N t will become increased whilst the more refracted Light at p receives no farther increase.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

This is very much like a Christmas Sunshine Party, except that you will need a number of little baskets, candy Easter eggs, lavender or yellow ribbon, lily or violet napkins, and little chickens or rabbits which you can buy for a cent a piece.
— from When Mother Lets Us Give a Party A book that tells little folk how best to entertain and amuse their little friends by Elsie Duncan Yale

Much in it—about Solomon and Josephus, of the Abbot Joachim, of Saint Jerome and the Great Khan; more about the Holy Sepulchre and the intentions of the Almighty in that matter; with some serious practical concern for the rich land of Veragua which he had discovered, lest it should share the fate of his other discoveries and be eaten up by idle adventurers.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 7 by Filson Young

These have no settled home, [11a] but sleeping at the nightly lodging houses, at some of the various Refuges in London or elsewhere, or in the vagrant-ward at the workhouses, wander about from parish to parish and from town to town continually; frequenting the various watering-places in their respective seasons, and succeeding ordinarily in reaping a rich harvest from the ready liberality of visitants.
— from Second Annual Report of the Kensington Church of England District Visiting Society (1846) by Anonymous

My companion and myself carefully remained inside the whole time, deadening our steps across the room, lowering our voices by the hearth, and only making a small fire at night.
— from Robert Helmont: Diary of a Recluse, 1870-1871 by Alphonse Daudet

In the summer of 1874 the "two Stevensons," as they were known, the cousins Robert Louis and Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (the author of the recent "Life of Velasquez," and the well-known writer on art), were in Barbizon.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

Can the most refined lack of vanity hide from you the fact that your own person is infinitely rounder than this of the evilly-intentioned-looking individual with the opium pipe?
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

Bordiga calls attention to the view on the right, looking over Varallo and the Mastallone, as soon as the portico is passed.
— from Ex Voto: An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia With Some Notice of Tabachetti's Remaining Work at the Sanctuary of Crea by Samuel Butler

Now, this refractory element is at once, and in the simplest way possible, exterminated by Mr. Ricardo's reformed law of value.
— from Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

] Note 2611 ( return ) [ Letter of Vergniaud and Guadet to the painter Boze (in the "Mémoires de Dumouriez").—Roederer, "Chronique des cinquante jours," 295.—Bertrand de Molleville, "Mémoires," III.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Of what I stated in the second chapter of the “Seven Lamps” respecting the nature of tracery, I need repeat here only this much, that it began in the use of penetrations through the stone-work of windows or walls, cut into forms which looked like stars when seen from within, and like leaves when seen from without: the name foil or feuille being universally applied to the separate lobes of their extremities, and the pleasure received from them being the same as that which we feel in the triple, quadruple, or other radiated leaves of vegetation, joined with the perception of a severely geometrical order and symmetry.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin