The Bodhisattwa or Sangha continues to be such until he has surmounted the very last grade of that vast and laborious ascent by which he is instructed that he can 'scale the heavens,' and pluck immortal wisdom from its resplendent source: which achievement performed, he becomes a Buddha, that is, an Omniscient Being, and a Tathágata —a title implying the accomplishment of that gradual increase in wisdom by which man becomes immortal or ceases to be subject to transmigration.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

2 dish made of pork with various vegetables and liver and sautéed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have been very agreeable lately, as it was not in my power to be otherwise.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1887 Preface to English Edition "Democratic Vistas" ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN NEW ORLEANS IN 1848 NEW ORLEANS IN 1848 SMALL MEMORANDA SMALL MEMORANDA Attorney General's Office, 1865
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

He threw all the more kindness and gentleness into his voice and look as he spoke to her.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The rocks which were visible appeared like amphibious monsters reposing in the surf.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For hee who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos’d Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff Against temptation: thou thy self with scorne And anger wouldst resent the offer’d wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert From thee alone, which on us both at once The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare, Or daring, first on mee th’ assault shall light.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

So to dinner, Mr. Browne, Clerk of the House of Lords, and his wife and brother there also; and my Lord mighty merry; among other things, saying that the Queen is a very agreeable lady, and paints still.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It doth, indeed, bar all vanity and lightness, and all compliance;” but it softens the manners, tempers the address, and refines the heart.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

lingiw v [A2] look away.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[ A few months after this, on the election of a mayor for Paris, the court voted against Lafayette, and for Pétion]
— from The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

The taking of Rome by Constable de Bourbon, in 1527, drove Sansovino away; he went to Venice, intending to go to France, but Venice charmed him, and his work pleased the Venetians, and the result was that from 1529 he served the Venetians as long as he lived.
— from A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

When the captain of the Hampden returned to his vessel a little after eight o’clock he immediately sent up three rockets in the direction in which the Alabama was supposed to have gone.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich

This man, whose wishes, hopes, and ambitions were as unbridled in their violence as low and vain in their aims and scope, would hurry from the death-chamber to the revel, and from the charnel-house hasten to plot long-sighted intrigues in the council-hall.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 1 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

She shivered visibly, and looked about her with wild eyes.
— from The Man of the Desert by Grace Livingston Hill

Shade trees all over it, great fine monuments and vaults as large as small houses.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne

A garland of fir boughs, decorated with lights, hid the palisade of famous racers from view, and lent an unwonted grace to the usually severely utilitarian apartment.
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

de Combray, Placène, Vannier, and Lerouge, all condemned to twenty-two years' imprisonment, was to take place.
— from The House of the Combrays by G. Lenotre

'Success but signifies vicissitude,' and looking at the history of the growth of the Church, it is impossible not to observe that almost in all cases, immediately upon any extensive progress, there has followed what seems like a strong effort of the Evil One at its frustration, either by external persecution, reaction of heathenism, or, most fatally and frequently during the last 300 years, from the reckless misdoings of unscrupulous sailors and colonists.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

All this shall lie On Volusene, a legate and a spy.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley