[Illustration: legionary eagle, SPQR Caption: AQUILA LEGIONIS] LESSON
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Or who would not have such children as Lycurgus left behind him to be the saviours, not only of Lacedaemon, but of Hellas, as one may say?
— from Symposium by Plato

V. be similar &c. adj.; look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate &c. 19; favor, span
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Panurge is got down somewhere in the hold, where he is crept into some corner, and lurks like a mouse in a cranny.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As died the sounds upon the tide, The shallop reached the mainland side, And ere his onward way he took, The stranger cast a lingering look, Where easily his eye might reach The Harper on the islet beach, Reclined against a blighted tree, As wasted, gray, and worn as he.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Sir Charles and Lady Lyell were intimates.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

'I think I do,' Mildred replied a little wistfully, and she cast a last look on the young man whom she must admire no more.
— from Celibates by George Moore

After dinner, the Earl of G—— and Lady Gertrude desired a conference with Sir Charles and Lady L——. They were not long absent, when Sir Charles came in, and carried out Miss Grandison to them.
— from The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7) by Samuel Richardson

She coughed a little last night, and would not eat her supper.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

It struck me that, if they were really coming, some of the rebs then rushing by might take occasion to settle one Yankee “ en passant ”: so I got my blouse off, covered myself with dead rebel sergeant’s coat, and lay low.
— from History of the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Infantry: A prisoner's diary A paper read at the officers' reunion in Boston, May 11, 1877 by Samuel M. (Samuel Miller) Quincy

She concluded a long letter by wishing him every happiness, and good luck.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

She cast a last look at her lover.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman

I was still carrying a lighted lamp,—for the wind, like the village-people, slept at sunrise.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various