[4081] Martianus Capella, speaking of the Indians of his time, saith, they were (much like our western Indians now) bigger than ordinary men, bred coarsely, very long-lived, insomuch, that he that died at a hundred years of age, went before his time, &c. Damianus A-Goes, Saxo Grammaticus, Aubanus Bohemus, say the like of them that live in Norway, Lapland, Finmark, Biarmia, Corelia, all over Scandia, and those northern countries, they are most healthful, and very long-lived, in which places there is no use at all of physic, the name of it is not once heard.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

" 'I have heard from some of his cotemporaries that he was generally seen lounging at the College gate, with a circle of young students round him, whom he was entertaining with wit, and keeping from their studies, if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the College discipline, which in his maturer years he so much extolled.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

condenar to condemn, damn. condensar to condense.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

The Chevalier de Boufflers The French Revolution World Revolution The Socialist Network The Surrender of an Empire Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette: Before the Revolution Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette: During the Revolution Spacious Days "There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House ...
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Besides his studies, the course of which is regulated by detailed rules, the constant duties of the pupil are the collection of fuel, the performance of devotions at morning and evening twilight, begging food, sleeping on the ground, and obedience to his teacher.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Is there any one that can desire to make void the favors they have granted?
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

This may be verified by the fact that we turn our heads here and there as though to compare directions whenever we want to make sure of the direction of sound.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Mr. Topsparkle sipped his chocolate, and tried to read his papers: but this morning he found himself in no humour for public news—the last letter from the Continent—the last highway robbery in Denmark Street, St. Giles—or even for the more appetising private scandal, about the Lady at Richmond Court who had suddenly retired from society, but was not in a wasting sickness, or the celebrated Duchess, once a famous beauty, whose housemaids had left her in a body because the ducal board wages were two shillings a week under the customary allowance.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The topic now under discussion could not be esteemed finished without an examination of the celebrated dictum, "To think is to condition."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

If he had actually seen Leroux entering the château, denial would be positively fatal; if his attitude at this moment only rested on surmise, then it might prove a good card to play.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The warmth of the evening allowed the upper casement to be opened and the curtains drawn aside, and the July moonlight feebly struggled against the blaze of the lights within.
— from Lucretia — Volume 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Then dropping back to that chuckling drawl, and re-assuming the ogle, he added: “The—flats—get—greener—every—year—about—the Elsey,” and with a good-humoured laugh Mac asked if “any other gentleman felt on for a swop.”
— from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

Mar. Go into the coach, nieces, and bid the coachman drive apace.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by John Dryden

His own mind was the corps de reserve which he now marched into the conflict to arrest the rout of his friends.
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

No, I repeat, the Count d’Artigas would probably not be overpleased if he were aware that Warder Gaydon is perfectly acquainted with this islet, even if the Ebba was to anchor there—which, as there is no port, is, to say the least, extremely improbable.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

This latter company remained at Sugar Post throughout the battle, being placed, with that complete disregard of all, except the winning of the battle, which characterised the Canadians, under the orders of the 168th Brigade.
— from The 56th Division (1st London Territorial Division) by C. H. (Charles Humble) Dudley Ward

If the sickness is severe enough to cause delirium, it would be as though madmen were at the telegraph keys dispatching trains of passenger cars which could hardly fail to bring injury and destruction to unwary travelers.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce