The fiscal year has not been altered; and the national accounts are still reckoned from old Lady Day, which falls on the 6th of April.]
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Come destrier, che da le regie stalle Ove a l'usa de l'arme si riserba, Fugge, e libero al fiu per largo calle Va tragl' armenti, o al fiume usato, o a l'herba.
— from The Iliad by Homer

The gentle Krishna was said to have been slain by an arrow from the bow of Ungudu, a huntsman, who left the body to rot under a tree where it fell, the bones being the sacred relics for which the image of Jugernath at Orissa was constructed.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

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— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

By and by, in the evening, comes Sir W. Batten’s Mingo to me to pray me to come to his master and Sir Richard Ford, who have very ill news to tell me.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Therefore, at bottom even such acts of self-abnegation are not moral inasmuch as they are not done with a strict regard for others.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ 55 ] Holda was also the owner of a magic fountain called Quickborn, which rivalled the famed fountain of youth, and of a chariot in which she rode from place to place when she inspected her domain.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

She was sure that there would be something ready for Trojans in the next world a little different from other folks' destiny—something select and refined—so why worry at going to meet it?
— from The Wooden Horse by Hugh Walpole

I sat long talking with them; and, among other things, Sir R. Ford did make me understand how the House of Commons is a beast not to be understood, it being impossible to know beforehand the success almost of any small plain thing, there being so many to think and speak to any business, and they of so uncertain minds and interests and passions.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

At length, towards midnight--that enchanted hour, when all the powers of the imagination, the fairies of the microcosm within us, are up and revelling in the greenest spots of the human heart--at length, towards midnight, when music, and conversation, and gay sights, and happy faces all around, and pleasant words, and the bright eyes of the sweet and beautiful, had left St. Real's fancy as excited as ever was Bacchus' self by the juice of the Achaian vine, Madame de Montpensier stood by his side; and, laying the jewelled forefinger of her right hand upon his arm, called his attention while she said, "I have a message to give Monsieur de St. Real from my brother, who cannot detach himself from that group to speak with you in person, and who fears that you may be absent to-morrow, ere he can see you.
— from One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

She ran forward and held out her hand.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

[308] Difficulties of taxation were lightened by shifting responsibility from the municipal officers to the guilds—by charging for example the bakers or blanket-makers or fullers with a certain proportion of the ferm, to be collected among their members and paid in [154] by their officers.
— from Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2) by Alice Stopford Green

But Bantam was the great object of interest; all wanted to mount at once; and it was with some difficulty that John arranged that they should ride by turns, and the eldest should ride first.
— from Old Christmas by Washington Irving

Then some huge landslip in the thawing air had caught us, and spluttering expostulation, we began to roll down a slope, rolling faster and faster, leaping crevasses and rebounding from banks, faster and faster, westward into the white-hot boiling tumult of the lunar day.
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Streams of sweat ran from the bellies of 'bus-horses when they halted.
— from Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches by Arthur Quiller-Couch

“Faith!” said Gervase laughing, “fighting would seem to be meat and drink to you, but I have not yet acquired such relish for the fare that I cannot do without it.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley