Emily, much agitated, did not leave Valancourt, but she led him from the pavilion, and, as they walked upon the terrace, he proceeded as follows: 'This Montoni: I have heard some strange hints concerning him.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

— ang, sa bítuk v [B126] starve (lit.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

By degrees their voices became so loud that they forgot that Kadambini was sleeping in the next room.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

[3752] Si ventri bene, si lateri, pedibusque tuis, nil Divitiae poterunt regales addere majus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

she asked, her bitter voice being strangely low—quite that of another woman now.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Quand il causait, la verve du vieillard brodait sur le canevas un peu lourd de l'allemand ses brilliantes arabesques latines, grecques, françaises, anglaises, italiennes.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

I shall not be so vain as to think, that where the Spectator appears, the other publick Prints will vanish; but shall leave it to my Readers Consideration, whether, Is it not much better to be let into the Knowledge of ones-self, than to hear what passes in Muscovy or Poland ; and to amuse our selves with such Writings as tend to the wearing out of Ignorance, Passion, and Prejudice, than such as naturally conduce to inflame Hatreds, and make Enmities irreconcileable.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And so they do not consider continence to be an absolute virtue, but something less than a virtue; for no mean arises from the concord of the worse with the better, nor is the excess of the passion curtailed, nor does the appetite obey or act in unison with reason, but it both gives and suffers trouble, and is constrained by force, and is as it were an enemy in a town given up to faction.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He spoke and ceased: the lily maid Elaine, Won by the mellow voice before she looked, Lifted her eyes, and read his lineaments.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

In the diocese of Cahors is Rocamadour, the most picturesque pilgrim shrine of Our Lady in France, visited by St. Louis.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Three remained illegible, or, rather, inexplicable, until all of a sudden Walter lit upon the solution: Von Holten, Dehnicke, Von Berg, summer lieutenants, who had been called into service for the manœuvres and had signed their names along with the other officers.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

When the pain is very bad she likes to hear music or poetry.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, No. 08, June 1878 Scribner's Illustrated by Various

It must have been lit and ventilated by some lattice in the ceiling.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

H. and V. = Hymns & Verses by Samuel Longfellow, 1894.
— from American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns by Henry Wilder Foote

With Frontispiece and Vignette by Stanley L. Wood .
— from The Kidnapped President by Guy Boothby

"Very beautiful," says Luttrell, dreamily, with his eyes on Molly, not on the lilies.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

Poor little girl; it was only last Saturday when they had come back from looking over the house at Ealing that, drawing upon all the appropriate resources of natural history, he had called her a little vesper Vole, because she lived in a Bank and only came out of it in the evening.
— from The Divine Fire by May Sinclair