And such is their audacity, they even dare to unsettle the wits of gentlemen of birth and intelligence, as is shown plainly by the way they have served your worship, when they have brought you to such a pass that you have to be shut up in a cage and carried on an ox-cart as one would carry a lion or a tiger from place to place to make money by showing it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The abbé Massieu in his poem, Carmen Caffaeum , thus celebrates the event: The monks each in turn, as the evening draws near, Drink 'round the great cauldron—a circle of cheer!
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

382 We learn, from Curtius (iv. 37), that Alexander took eleven days to march from Phoenicia to the Euphrates.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

We were at least thirty at table every day, the dishes were delicate without undue profusion, the conversation gay and animated without any improprieties.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The middle denotes the inherent energy, the active the external diffusion.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Anxious to appease the enraged deity Zeus assured him that his cause should be avenged.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

There are thus eighteen different ways of grouping, and if we take any one of these and keep the odd card (that I have called "removed") at the head of the column, then one set of numbers can be varied in order in twenty-four ways in the column and the other four twenty-four ways in the horizontal, or together they may be varied in 24 × 24 = 576 ways.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Now they discovered that there are exactly 1,365 different routes by which they may reach their destina Pg 74 tion, always travelling either due south or due east.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

A War Council is held and the route decided upon, and the best way to attack the enemy discussed.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes

When the girls got up charades they had to acknowledge that everything depended on Miss Morris.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

"Your trick and this thing are two entirely different affairs," continued the colonel.
— from The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

Sixty of his ships he sent toward Egypt; with the rest he went and fought the king of Persia's fleet, composed of Phoenician and Cilician galleys, recovered all the cities thereabout, and threatened Egypt; designing no less than the entire ruin of the Persian empire.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

He declared that if I had not been present, he would have written the answer that Ernst deserved in his face.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

The french Revolution is not only compleat but triumphant, and the envious despotism of this nation is compelled to own the magnanimity with which it has been conducted.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

But still Rosas held out; the weather was very severe and the snow came above the soldiers' thighs, and the engineers declared that it was impossible to construct siege works unless a certain outlying redoubt was first taken.
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

[pg 099] The fundamental geometrical figure of the Kabalah , as given in the Book of Numbers , 180 that figure which tradition and the Esoteric Doctrines tell us was given by the Deity Itself to Moses on Mount Sinai, 181 contains the key to the universal problem in its grandiose, because simple, combinations.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 3 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky