And, if possible, by means far more expedient, such as military policy, devices, and stratagems of war, we shall save all the souls, and send them home as merry as crickets unto their own houses.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
His advice was to neglect no means of getting out of the difficulty, to sacrifice all my property, diamonds, and jewellery, and thus to obtain a release from my enemies.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
In the evening this delightful old nobleman told me he had spent a most pleasant day, and after asking me to dine at his house while M. de Chauvelin was there, he left me with an effusive embrace.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
Just the hour when Shiraz was lying on his mat asleep, and when Leh Shin slept, and Mhtoon Pah drowsed against his cushion from Balsorah, each dreaming after his own fashion; and it was an hour when white men were sure to be in their bungalows.
— from The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie
Each Chief, however small his comparative importance, showed the full disposition to exact from the rest the deference due to a separate and independent prince; while the stronger and more powerful, divided among themselves by recent contentions or ancient feuds, were constrained in policy to use great deference to the feelings of their less powerful brethren, in order, in case of need, to attach as many well-wishers as might be to their own interest and standard.
— from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott
Gloria Vanderman's maid; they were apparently about to sweep the floor and tidy the place, but as I crossed the room an older gipsy woman entered by the door, and she and Maga promptly drove Anna out through the window after my party.
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy
I saw myself alone on earth, when I had thought that the woman whom I adored loved me; I saw all my plans destroyed, all my dreams unfulfilled.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock
[Pg 226] SYMBOLISM IN PAINTING In England, which has made great Symbolic Art, most people dislike an art if they are told it is symbolic, for they confuse symbol and allegory.
— from Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
A Privy Council was at once summoned, and Mr. Pitt despatched a messenger to Lord Camelford's brother-in-law, Lord Grenville, to come at once to town.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
He employed his soldiers for show, as many princes do at present. 1329 Lamprid.
— from A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 1 (of 2) by Johann Beckmann
But it is remarked, at Kinsale, that when sprats are most plentiful, diseases are most common.
— from A Tour in Ireland. 1776-1779 by Arthur Young
I have named General of the Artillery Jodl, head of the Armed Forces Operational Staff, as my permanent deputy, and Major General Warlimont as his deputy to Reichsleiter Rosenberg.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 3 by Various
I think it began to stir at my Paris dresses and things; Karnak and Mme.
— from Daisy by Susan Warner
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