Then, after much parley, the husbandman, taking the lady in his arms, for that she could not walk, brought her safely without the tower; but the unlucky maid, who had remained behind, descending less circumspectly, made a slip of the foot and falling from the ladder to the ground, broke her thigh, whereupon she fell a-roaring for the pain, that it seemed a lion.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

All the old centuries of farm work and brute force have settled in him, and there they've stuck, for all he's so distinguished.”
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Moreover, my dungeon, as well as all the condemned cells at Toledo, had stone floors, and light was not altogether excluded.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

There are those who believe that scurvy is of bacterial origin , some going so far as to regard it as a communicable disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

She felt a poignant affection for him, as for that which is past.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But many thought, and I thought so too, that it was special favour and mercy which Heaven showed to Spain in permitting the destruction of that source and hiding place of mischief, that devourer, sponge, and moth of countless money, fruitlessly wasted there to no other purpose save preserving the memory of its capture by the invincible Charles V; as if to make that eternal, as it is and will be, these stones were needed to support it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

His adversaries prosecuted several pieces he had published before the magistrates at Rome, and prevailed so far against him, as to have them condemned to the fire.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Schultz found a difference of 4 deg.
— from The Reason Why A Careful Collection of Many Hundreds of Reasons for Things Which, Though Generally Believed, Are Imperfectly Understood by Robert Kemp Philp

Return to Table of Contents Some idea of the traffic between San Francisco and the southern mines may be formed from the fact, that there are at this moment ten steamers plying between San Francisco and Sacramento.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852 by Various

Doubtless that was what the king had in store for him, for at once he gave him the manor of the Watchet thane who had been slain, for as it chanced he had no heirs, and the land came back to the king.
— from A Thane of Wessex Being a Story of the Great Viking Raids into Somerset by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

He has done nothing to deprave morals, which is more than can be said of some French art.
— from Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton

Margeret had taken a step forward and stood irresolutely as though about to speak; she was very pale, and Monroe knew in an instant who she was––not by the picture, but from Pluto’s story last night.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

He only said, that the Spaniards did not appear to be so friendly as the English; and that, in their persons, they approached to some resemblance of his own countrymen.
— from Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook With an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

Here he was safe from any espial, and while Mavis was absent he gently parted the leaves to view her enchanted palace, whither she had called him.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume