In Davanzati's Tacitus , the words "Colluviem illam nationum " ( Annal. II. 55) are rendered " quello guazzabuglio di nazioni ," in which case we come very close to the meaning assigned to Guasmul .
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

In reprinting this edition, I have here and there amended the text by means of the later 4tos,—1616, 1624, 1631.—Of 4to 1663, which contains various comparatively modern alterations and additions, I have made no use.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

— N. winding &c. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity[obs3]; sinuosity, sinuation[obs3]; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus[obs3], twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages[obs3]; torsion; inosculation[obs3]; reticulation &c. (crossing) 219; rivulation[obs3]; roughness &c. 256. coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop[obs3], scallop, escalop[obs3]; kink; ammonite, snakestone[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“Suddenly Weena came very close to my side.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But that was certainly very coolly done by him, and every one knows that in most people’s estimation, to do anything coolly is to do it genteelly.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

↑ 35 The amount of luck which goes with any particular bird of this species depends on the number of scales on its feet, for counting which certain verbal categories (like our own “tinker, tailor, soldier” formula) are used.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

— N. writing &c. v.; chirography, stelography[obs3], cerography[obs3]; penmanship, craftmanship[obs3]; quill driving; typewriting.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

We had room to stretch, if not to turn around; but we could very carefully roll over, one at a time, behind the sheltering foliage.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Wood & Co. Voegtlin, C. : The Effect of Alkali on Vitamines, Proc.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

This young man was certainly very comical, and very frank.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

She was carrying very carefully a little tray covered with a snow-white doyley, and on it were a glass of milk and a plate of mulberries.
— from Seven Little Australians by Ethel Sybil Turner

Here and at various places along the march they were joined by detachments of border fighters summoned to join the expedition—Colonel William Campbell, who with some reluctance had abandoned his own plans in response to Shelby's urgent and repeated message, in command of four hundred hardy frontiersmen from Washington County, Virginia; Colonel Benjamin Cleveland, with the wild fighters of Wilkes known as "Cleveland's Bulldogs"; Colonel Andrew Hampton, with the stalwart riflemen of Rutherford; Major Joseph Winston, the cousin of Patrick Henry, with the flower of the citizenry of Surry; the McDowells, Charles and Joseph, with the bold borderers of Burke; Colonels Lacy and Hill, with 294 well-trained soldiers of South Carolina; and Brigadier-General James Williams, leading the intrepid Rowan volunteers.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

, for such is the meaning of the word "Alcazar," of Toledo, is one of the two great Palaces which Charles V. caused to be constructed in order that Spain might, for the first time, have "Royal Residences" commensurate with her grandeur and wealth.
— from An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir

The literary part of the work, comprising very careful and particular accounts of these events, is excellently written—so compactly and perspicuously, with so thorough a knowledge and so pure a taste, as to be deserving of applause among models in military history.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

In lyke fourme who comyth vnto confessyon There to declare howe he his lyfe hath spent And shewyth nat his synne lyke wyse as he hath done Hymself he disceyuyth, as blynde of his entent.
— from The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 by Sebastian Brant

He came to be most intimately one of them, was given every opportunity for observing their work, was even intrusted with certain valuable confidences when the men were sober and saw his way toward learning more by associating with them when they were in their cups.
— from Uncle Sam, Detective by William Atherton DuPuy

Of his social character this unknown biographer writes, ‘That cheerful, easy affability for which he was so remarkably distinguished, gained him the love and affection of all around him, which contributed very considerably to his institutions taking root so readily, and in so short a time flourishing so successfully: abroad he conducted himself with that dignity which his situation as governor of a great college necessarily required; though, under his own roof, he stripped himself of it all, and became, to everyone indiscriminately, the easy and familiar companion: he conducted himself in short, throughout, in such an admirable manner, that he was not only loved and esteemed, but honoured and respected; and as he was in his life most sincerely valued, so was he in his death truly and universally lamented.’
— from The Academic Gregories by Agnes Grainger Stewart

And Sidney went upstairs and put away a single white carnation very carefully.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery