So we gone out, in went others; viz., one after another, Sir Stephen Fox for the army, Captain Cocke for sick and wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the household.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
We have often seen the changes effected on a European habit by a removal to a tropical or to a warm climate, but not, till now, the changes in the constitution of an Asiatic army brought to a cold climate: for such were the bleak shores of the Mediterranean to the feeble Indian.
— from Medical Sketches of the Expedition to Egypt, from India by McGrigor, James, Sir
"They know as well as I do thet any chap could follow so far," he said after a while.
— from Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
The artillery competitors came from six divisional artilleries, and we were remarkably successful, gaining the following events:— Tent-pegging for Officers—1st prize (Major Swain).
— from War Services of the 62nd West Riding Divisional Artillery by Austin Thomas Anderson
The best, he used to say, came from Scotland; the next to them, [Pg 8] from the North of England, especially from Westmoreland and Cumberland, where, thanks to the piety and local attachments of our ancestors, endowed, or, as they are commonly called, free, schools abound.—I. F.] Classed among the "Poems of Sentiment and Reflection."— Ed.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8) by William Wordsworth
Duke George of Saxony, in his reply to Luther’s “Widder den Meuchler zu Dresen,” really expresses the motive for the active Catholic charity formerly so lavishly displayed, when he speaks of the great possessions given by past ages of which the religious revolt had robbed the Church; of the “gifts freely given by nobles, burghers and peasants out of ardent Christian love and gratitude for His sacred bitter Passion, bright blood and guiltless death, to cloisters, parish churches, altars, chapels, cells, hospitals, religious houses, crafts,” etc.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar
"I don't believe he's entitled to a cent," came from Stanley.
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer
He gave at the knees and was obliged to cling to a Chippendale cabinet for support.
— from The Prophet of Berkeley Square by Robert Hichens
one after another, Sir Stephen Fox for the Army, Captain Cocke for sick and wounded, Mr. Ashburnham for the household.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
I have constantly remarked that when the punctured part inflames properly, and is attended with an efflorescence, rather inclining to a crimson colour, for some distance round the same, about the eleventh or twelfth day from the inoculation, although the patient should have very little illness and no eruption, yet that he is secure from all future infection [944] .”
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton
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