It is said that he also sent to Volterra a panel in distemper which was much praised in that city.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

The whole visible area partook in different degrees of a tint of pale yellow, and in some portions had acquired a brilliancy even painful to the eye.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

They are also given by Afzelius in his Swedish version, and partially in Danish by Finn Magnusen in his edition.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Though little, and far from being as bold as her sister, she is fair to the view, and pleasant in discourse.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Before the William Thompson Chapter, D. A. R., invaded this neck of the moral vineyard and put its delicate, historical fingers upon the tendrils of local happenings, there was no blare of trumpets over a foul and bloody deed which occurred near the "Metts Cross-Roads," in this county, during the Revolutionary war.
— from Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends by Sophie Lee Foster

Hence it is that we see in the cases of profane men, of fanatical spirits and of those who have no faith, or who have fallen from the faith, how secure and unconcerned they are, how vehement and pertinacious in defending their errors; so much so that they will not hesitate even to die in the defence of them.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

v. Another point in discussion between the pope and the English ambassadors was not so easily terminated.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume

The status of the eighteenth-century Vizetellys as printers is difficult to determine.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

It means that the needs of the community in many respects will suffer acutely vexatious, and perhaps injurious, delay; but I feel sure that the public are prepared to put up with all this discomfort, loss, and privation if thereby their country marches triumphantly out of this great struggle.
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 by Various

It foreshadowed the general line of action followed by the approaching new Administration, [214] with whose views and purposes it doubtless coincided. Passed in the House on February 27, 1809, it was to go into effect
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I heard my grandame say that once, when she was a girl, a cloud of smoke burst from that hill, and that flames of fire were seen, just as if it contained a volcano, as perhaps it does, Don Jorge .”
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

“I must depend on my voice; and, provided I do not catch a cold, that will, I hope, produce as much effect as your fiddle.”
— from Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin by William Henry Giles Kingston

I also am an Arcadian: have been to Exeter—the coast of Devonshire—the Bristol Channel—and to visit a Parson in Dorsetshire.
— from Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1 by Edward FitzGerald