Et cil lui dist, 'Se tu es nez de prince malle et de femelle
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
Yo pienso sacar todos esos nombres de la injusta obscuridad y olvido en que yacen.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
Not that I less endure, or shrink from pain, Insulting Angel, well thou knowst I stood Thy fiercest, when in Battel to thy aide The blasting volied Thunder made all speed And seconded thy else not dreaded Spear.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
He girded his sword about his shoulder, bound his sandals on to his comely feet, and took a doughty spear with a point of sharpened bronze; then he went to the threshold of the cloister and said to Euryclea, "Nurse, did you make the stranger comfortable both as regards bed and board, or did you let him shift for himself?—for my mother, good woman though she is, has a way of paying great attention to second-rate people, and of neglecting others who are in reality much better men.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer
The blasting volied Thunder made all speed And seconded thy else not dreaded Spear.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Wollunqua is not a divinity set over a special order of natural phenomena, so they expect no definite service from him in exchange for the cult.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
Suddenly the Emperor Napoleon declared war on Austria and raised a confused point of morals in the mind of Europe.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
Geoffroy St. Hilaire seems to entertain no doubt, that the more an organ normally differs in the different species of the same group, the more subject it is to individual anomalies.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin
well thou knowest I stood Thy fiercest, when in battle to thy aid The blasting vollied thunder made all speed, And seconded thy else not dreaded spear.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton
However, Mr. Festing Jones, who is as judicious as a Lord of Appeal, seems to entertain no doubt that Canon Butler was a holy horror, so that we must bow to his opinion.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
VIII Gronski spent the entire next day in the city; at night he was at Pani Otocka's, so that he did not return home until near midnight.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz
And then Jean opened her own door and said to Elizabeth, "Now, dear, I'm ready for the German lesson."
— from Jean Cabot at Ashton by Gertrude Fisher Scott
The case is complete as it stands to-day, while it is even more significant that every new discovery falls into line with what is already known, and takes its natural place in the all-inclusive doctrine of organic evolution.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton
She told me, when I had tried to warn her against expecting too much on seeing the Emperor next day, that she did not intend to accompany our party, and I suspected that she had been ordered to remain away.
— from A Chicago Princess by Robert Barr
Possibly you might like to see the enclosed note (Dr. Whewell wrote (January 2, 1860): "...
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin
“I shall give up cricket,” he said to Edwards next day; “it’s a beastly game.”
— from Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Lewis Hough
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