[ After mentioning the nomination of the doge by a French elector his kinsman Andrew Dandolo approves his exclusion, quidam Venetorum fidelis et nobilis senex, usus oratione satis probabili, &c., which has been embroidered by modern writers from Blondus to Le Beau.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

on a number of stitches that divides by 3. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Gipaghut mu sa irù kay sábà man mu kaáyu, The dog barked at you because you were very noisy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the previous book he had made the distinction between necessary and unnecessary pleasure, which is repeated by Aristotle, and he now observes that there are a further class of 'wild beast' pleasures, corresponding to Aristotle's (Greek).
— from The Republic by Plato

By this time most of those in the inn had been attracted by the dispute, but particularly Cardenio, Don Fernando, his companions, the Judge, the curate, the barber, and Don Quixote; for he now considered there was no necessity for mounting guard over the castle any longer.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

They conjecture that they are caused by the sudden falling of cliffs of sand as the temperature changes at night time.—H. C.] Hiuen Tsang, in his passage of the Desert, both outward and homeward, speaks of visual illusions; such as visions of troops marching and halting with gleaming arms and waving banners, constantly shifting, vanishing, and reappearing, "imagery created by demons."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The fact of adaptation of means to ends observable in nature seems to break down the barrier between Nature and Freedom; and if we once relinquish the distinction between Mechanism and Technic in the operations of nature we are led to the Idea of an absolute Being, who manifests Himself by action which, though necessary, is yet the outcome of perfect freedom.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

And not only this, but, fourthly, the meaning of the doctrine itself will be in danger of being lost, or enfeebled, and deprived of its vital effect on the character and conduct: the dogma becoming a mere formal profession, inefficacious for good, but cumbering the ground, and preventing the growth of any real and heartfelt conviction, from reason or personal experience.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

This room has a glass door commanding a view of madame’s bed, and I will take care to draw back the curtains over the door so that you will be able to see at your ease all that passes between us.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The painter should grind his own colours; the architect work in the mason's yard with his men; the master-manufacturer be himself a more skilful operator than any man in his mills; and the distinction between one man and another be only in experience and skill, and the authority and wealth which these must naturally and justly obtain.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Choose you this day between the Creator and the slime of the sea with the sun's rays.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 by Various

By arbitration between the two countries the matter was finally adjusted, leaving the miners of Rainy Hollow, as well as those of the Porcupine District and other places, in peaceful possession of their lands as they desired; but of those who had given assistance to the United States officials while inquiring into the location of Boundary marks, none had given more satisfactory and timely aid than Tillie, the Chilkat Indian, when she led the white men to the Old Stone House on the Summit.
— from The Trail of a Sourdough Life in Alaska by May Kellogg Sullivan

Nor was any very great thing done by the author of A Warning for Fair Women .
— from A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

The day before the ceremony Miss Susanna had sent a note to Jerry by Jonas requesting her to be at the Arms by two o’clock on the Saturday afternoon of the eventful day.
— from Marjorie Dean, Post-Graduate by Josephine Chase

It is in comparison with the occupations of the non-Jewish population in Russia that the significance of this distribution becomes evident.
— from Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph

My mind not pleased with the spending of this day, because I had proposed a great deal of pleasure to myself this day at Guildhall.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661 by Samuel Pepys

Taylor looked around the smoking glade at the dead, big bodies and little ones, brown flesh and tan deerskin splashed with bright red, eyes staring, limbs helter-skelter.
— from Shaman by Robert Shea