[218] took up his residence in the royal castle, whilst his companions scattered themselves through the town, spending their time in feasting and pleasure.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

And so, if we examine avarice, the ambition of power or of glory, or the lusts of concupiscence and licentiousness, we shall find a certain conscience in the mind of man, which, like a king, sways by the force of counsel all the inferior faculties and propensities; and this, in truth, is the noblest portion of our nature; for when conscience reigns, it allows no resting-place to lust, violence, or temerity.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The distinguished writer adds: “But on whatever occasion they may have been made, they are of considerable notoriety among the Indians: for a party passing, about thirty years ago [i. e., about 1750], through the part of the country where this barrow is, went through the woods directly to it without any instructions or enquiry, and having staid about it some time, with expressions which were construed to be those of sorrow, they returned to the high road, which they had left about half a dozen miles to pay this visit, and pursued their journey.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

[ L. titulus] tīð I. f. assent, permission : giving, grant, boon, favour, concession , Æ, BH (tigð).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

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— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, 57 scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time its form and pressure.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Porthos did not feel the ridicule of this, and took it for a piece of simplicity, at which he laughed in his large mustache.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

When the threshing is finished, a puppet is made in the form of the animal, and this is carried by the thresher of the last sheaf to a neighbouring farm, where the threshing is still going on.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Nay, a stammering carpenter had eloquence enough to persuade my master that I fired a pistol loaded with small shot into his window; though my landlady and the whole family bore witness that I was abed fast asleep at the time when this outrage was committed, I was once flogged for having narrowly escaped drowning, by the sinking of a ferry boat in which I was passenger.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“It wasn’t five minutes afterwards that I felt a puff, and the topsail came aback with a crack.
— from The Wind-Jammers by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

[Pg 298] When Louis XIV was eight years old, it was necessary to educate him, but he was a dull and reluctant pupil, so Cardinal Mazarin invented some “instruction cards” for the youthful king that illustrated fables and proved attractive to others besides the agrammatist.
— from Prophetical, Educational and Playing Cards by Van Rensselaer, John King, Mrs.

But, for the sake of the money there is in it, he does blood and thunder illustrations for a paper of that sort.
— from Cape of Storms: A Novel by Percival Pollard

"To the earnest wish of Jay that British ships should have no right under the convention to carry into the states any slaves from any part of the world, it being the intention of the United States entirely to prohibit their importation, Fox answered promptly: 'If that be their policy, it never can be competent to us to dispute with them their own regulations.'"
— from The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870 by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The words of Moschus also seem as if they might have derived their inspiration from a painting, the touches are so minute, and so picturesque— ‘Meanwhile Europa, riding on the back of the divine bull, with one hand clasped the beast’s great horn, and with the other caught up her garment’s purple fold, lest it might trail and be drenched in the hoar sea’s infinite spray.
— from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose by of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion

It is only because grace is often used where harmony is meant that it finds a place in this glossary.
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

Indian trails led toward it from all points of the compass; it was easily accessible by water from every quarter—and, by canoe, was the Indians preferred means of transportation.
— from Niagara: An Aboriginal Center of Trade by Peter A. (Peter Augustus) Porter

He worked by the rule of three,—tickle, talk, and flatter, with a few cutes thrown in for a pelon; that gets nearly any of them.
— from A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams