And 'tis probable among the great number of ladies who pitied Abelard , there were some with whom he had been very intimate: for his philosophy did not make him scrupulous enough to esteem every small infidelity a crime, when it did not lessen his constant love of Heloise .
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

SYN: Entrance, transport, enchant, enrapture, charm, violate, outrage, deflour, debauch, [See DEBAUCH].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ensalada f salad. ensalzar t exalt, extol.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Further, the judging of things as great or small extends to everything, even to all 109 their characteristics; thus we describe beauty as great or small.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Euripides, among many excellent things, has this: The vast, expanded, boundless sky behold, See it with soft embrace the earth enfold; This own the chief of Deities above,
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The reason why the souls exhibit this exceeding eagerness to behold the plain of truth is that pasturage is found there, which is suited to the highest part of the soul; and the wing on which the soul soars is nourished with this.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

In passive perception ideas and sentiments evading the "ego" enter the "subconscious mind" and, uncontrolled by the active perception, form organizations or complexes of "lost" memories.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Mi sitio está todavía en estado embrionario y en construcción, quiero que sea como mi librería, un lugar de encuentro antes de ser un lugar comercial.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

At last, he couldn't help shutting 'em, to ease 'em a minute; and the very moment he did so, he hears Chickweed a-roaring out, "Here he is!"
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

The French cavalry drove off the Cossacks who were watching the passage, and the same evening the Emperor established his headquarters at Kovno, and the corps of Davoust, Oudinot, and Ney crossed the bridges, and with the cavalry under Murat, composing altogether a force of 350,000 men, marched forward at a rapid pace on the 26th for Wilna, seventy-five miles distant.
— from Through Russian Snows: A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He would allow me to sanctify with marriage the ardent love that I would sacrifice everything to, everything except my eternal salvation!
— from The Infant's Skull; Or, The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Eugène Sue

Adjoining the sacred edifice, the emperor erected hospitals, or houses of refuge, for travellers, sick people, and mendicants of all nations; the foundations whereof, composed of handsome Roman masonry, are still visible on either side of the southern end of the building.
— from The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple by C. G. (Charles Greenstreet) Addison

In order to prove this, Mr. B. cut a slip from a cedar pencil small enough to enter easily the holes in the medallion, if he found them to be of different depths.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

So ended this extraordinary episode, but I was told by a good many friends that I had driven a nail in my coffin as regarded the Commandantship.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon