Little Snow-white was so hungry and thirsty that she ate some vegetables and bread from each plate and drank a drop of wine out of each mug, for she did not wish to take all from one only.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm
[4624] to make the trumpet of the gospel the trumpet of war, a company of hell-born Jesuits, and fiery-spirited friars, facem praeferre to all seditions: as so many firebrands set all the world by the ears (I say nothing of their contentious and railing books, whole ages spent in writing one against another, and that with such virulency and bitterness, Bionaeis sermonibus et sale nigro ), and by their bloody inquisitions, that in thirty years, Bale saith, consumed 39 princes, 148 earls, 235 barons, 14,755 commons; worse than those ten persecutions, may justly doubt where is charity?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
But his eye, falling out on his cheek, hung by a slender vein as by a root, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Emily, when she was somewhat recovered, wandered with her new friend over the grounds belonging to the chateau, as much delighted with the surrounding views, as Blanche, in the benevolence of her heart, had wished; from thence she perceived, beyond the woods, the towers of the monastery, and remarked, that it was to this convent she designed to go.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe
She had sense enough to conclude that her thirty-seven years, hare’s eyes, daubed nose, shrill voice, and black skin, stood no chance against two elegant young girls, in all the height and bloom of beauty; she resolved, therefore, nether to betray nor assist them, choosing rather to lose me entirely than entertain me for them.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
siklit v [A12; b4(1)]
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
sanghid v [AN; b6N]
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
He is afraid he shall not have the use of his limbs so well if they are torn to pieces, but is under no such apprehensions if they are burned: 57 Nor leave my naked bones, my poor remains, To shameful violence and bloody stains.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero
This so exactly expressed the awkward desperate plunges to the right and left which Mr. Ramsay was executing at the moment, that Mr. Heathcote had another of his acute attacks of appreciation, and became almost a subject for sal volatile and burnt feathers, Mr. Ramsay saying good-naturedly, "What a fellow you are for chaffin', Ketchum!
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various
Thine eyes their dear curtains now shut from the light, Sweet veined and blue tinted they round to my sight, Fair shells of deep oceans!
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
The Red River Valley, the Saskatchewan Valley, and British Columbia, are now belted by a great railway, and given to the plough; but in the far north life is much the same as it was a hundred years ago.
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Complete by Gilbert Parker
But the united colonies had lately given great umbrage by supplying Virginia and Barbadoes, then enemies of the commonwealth, with warlike stores and other commodities.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall
At the back, fixed in the wall, is a large slab of red porphyry, circular at the top and surrounded by an elegant inlay of Sienna verd, antique border surrounding the whole figure of the Saint, and has a most rich effect; it is difficult to believe that the Sienna is not gold.
— from Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath by Henry Venn Lansdown
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