130 Maro Virgil, whose full name was Publius Vergilius Maro, Pope here praises Virgil's well-known imitation of Homer.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

So this worthy lord, whose name was Gonzalo, secretly placed in the boat some fresh water, provisions, and clothes, and what Prospero valued most of all, some of his precious books.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Indeed, the walls of the City were plainly visible, and the Queen of the Field Mice, who had guided them so faithfully, came near to bid them good-bye.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

nánà n pus. v [b4] be filled with pus. (→) v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

515 , 35-54; 516 , 1-9; silent, arm of world, 464 , 11; sometimes awkwardly set, 181 , 15; that can't be bought, rare, 105 , 13; that requires to be guarded, 414 , 22; the only necessity, 507 , 26; the sentinel, 46 , 38; to be exercised, 165 , 24; to her votaries, 48 , 7; true, 500 , 42, 43; two roads to, 570 , 6; under calumny, 34 , 54; under oppression, 50 , 2; versus pedigree, 164 , 48; we boast of, 265 , 41; weak, 530 , 14; within, honour without, 175 , 26; without discretion, 559 , 28; without its reward, 260 , 7; without restraint, 183 , 34; zeal for, value of, 331 , 34 Virtues , acknowledged by Christianity, 43 , 6; and faults, interchangeable, 523 , 25; at different ages, 185 , 28; fortifying, 432 , 27; gentlemanly, rare, 526 , 7; godlike, parent of all, 420 , 16; greatest, Augustine on, 432 , 43; late in maturing, 438 , 3; lost in interests, 239 , 32; milder, correlated to severer, 442 , 10; not all our own, 294 , 43; one's, thinking of, 438 , 37; our, sayings about, 339 , 34-37; permanency of our, 530 , 30; severe and restrictive, 453 , 18; to profit one, 509 , 22; two chief, 319 , 36; two kinds of, 399 , 11; we speak of, 528 , 18 Virtuous , deeds and their reward, 109 , 22; most, of men, 444 , 10; sayings about the, 461 , 1-3, 21; the, defined, 540 , 43 Visible , garment of invisible, 457 , 24 Vision , clearness of, its comprehensiveness, 495 , 30; consequence of intensified, 395 , 22; imperfect, effect of, 323 , 19; limit of, for most, 304 , 37; measure of our, 539 , 20; now, through a glass darkly, 110 , 28; the, of visions for a man, 422 , 40 Visionaries , all, 521 , 6 Visions , the, we see, 521 , 6 Vitality , fate of what has no, 540 , 33 Vocation , a peculiar, to every one, 75 , 14; apt to mistake our, 521 , 10; chosen for one, 296 , 32; of man, primary, 449 , 22 Voice , as index of character, 473 , 12; human, power of, 436 , 5; is in my sword, 167 , 7; inner, to be trusted, 519 , 10; of man, general and perpetual, 429 , 44; soft, gentle, and low, 155 , 4; wisest, no longer divine, 463 , 25 Void , in things, 321 , 42 Voltaire , impotency of his logic, 197 , 24; in relation to his time, 82 , 34; on his life, 258 , 27 Volubility different from pertinency, 42 , 49 Volume , flesh-bound, the only revelation of God, 428 , 46 Vote , of a slave, a nuisance, 307 , 11 Votes , should be weighed, 265 , 37; worthlessness of decisions by, 520 , 15 Voting , decision by, Cromwell's protest against, 517 , 36 Vow to heaven to be first paid, 321 , 11 Vows , unheedful, 507 , 23 Vox populi, vox dei , falsehood of, 414 , 15 Vulgar , incapable of pure truth, 289 , 20; people, mark of, 403 , 12; respect of, for wealth, 136 , 42; sayings about, 461 , 10-12; working on, with fine sense, 492 , 10 Vulgarity , and fashion, 102 , 30, 34; condemned, 64 , 9; essence of, 425 , 35; marks of, 69 , 30; or solitude, 465 , 12 Vulnerable , point, our, 522 , 10; point, the, 164 , 20 W Wages , God's business, 279 , 38; never to be angrily demanded, 304 , 5; our claim of, 260 , 43 Waggons , creaking, 49 , 39 Wailing , no remedy, 311 , 24; over the dead, ineffectual, 230 , 29 Waiting , advantage of, 94 , 16; in vain, 20 , 14; not Goethe's way, 160 , 24 Walking , a falling forward, 461 , 14; a series of falls, 13 , 2 Wallets , our two, 345 , 41 Wanderers o'er eternity, 33 , 27 Wandering , think of, 171 , 37 Want , caused by haste, 141 , 7; effect of, on heart, 538 , 18; full satisfaction of, 493 , 2; prayer of, to be listened to, 116 , 28; that man has to dread, 204 , 40 Wants , four material, 287 , 5; knowledge and effort necessary for supply of, 152 , 38; man's, 266 , 17; source of our, 203 , 48; which we are insensible of, 12 , 30 War , a game which subjects might veto, 33 , 32; an iron cure, 60 , 27; and peace, Schiller on, 221 , 32; art of, Napoleon on, 567 , 13; art of, Wellington on, 462 , 5; begun, hell let loose, 137 , 19; conquest by cruelty in, 50 , 33; conquest in, 201 , 1; epithets of, 27 , 33, 41, 44 , 45; evil, 181 , 38; evil of, 101 , 31; 191 , 30; for war, 155 , 8; final aim of, 59 , 54; glorious, pride, pomp, and circumstance of, 102 , 22; hell enlarged, 122 , 31; honour of, 382 , 13; horror of, 506 , 26; how to look on, 27 , 43; how to still, 288 , 48; legitimate object of, 27 , 42; man in time of, 188 , 52; mistakes in, inevitable, 150 , 36; murder, 98 , 28; no second blunder in, 30 , 30; once business, 112 , 34; right form of, 106 , 6; ruin to thousands, 280 , 32; sacrifices in, 209 , 48; sign of injustice, 549 , 24; sources of, 116 , 11; success in, 405 , 31; {pg 653} success in, right earned by, 150 , 1; three things required in, 569 , 37; when just, 216 , 41 Ware , bad, never cheap, 329 , 45; no, without the money, 565 , 32 Warfare , the greatest, 391 , 12; the spiritual, of these days, 191 , 35 Warlike people, vices of all, 119 , 42 Warmth , great, at outset, an evil sign, 135 , 23; in winter, 191 , 27 Warning , comparative worthlessness of, 334 , 22; word, not heeded, 23 , 10 Warnings , earth full of, 75 , 47 Warrior , an old, 15 , 59; and war-horse, but a vision, 414 , 24 Warriors , great, why remembered, 135 , 24 Wars and mothers, 27 , 35 Waste , caused by haste, 141 , 7; where no enjoyment, 544 , 35 Waster , after an earner, 77 , 40 Watching , vain, 96 , 24 Water , afar, and fire, 3 , 32; and blood, different destinations of, 425 , 2; and wine as mirrors, 192 , 30; as servant and master, 106 , 39; drinking, 73 , 8; not to be quarrelled with, 522 , 5; pure, to be sought at the fountain, 42 , 38; smooth, to be guarded against, 57 , 34; spilt upon the ground, 21 , 13; that has passed the mill, 45 , 54; where the brook is deep, 394 , 40 Waters , still, deadliest, 313 , 27 Wattle , Captain, 63 , 44 Wave , the longest, 439 , 37 Waves , tainted with death, 103 , 45 Way , a, fashioning, through the impassable, 331 , 8; best, to be chosen, however rough, 42 , 43; good, to be inquired after, 402 , 16; how to make, 312 , 24; noiseless tenor of their, 102 , 10; seeing one's, 168 , 26; that seemeth right, 470 , 42; truth and life, importance of the, 560 , 2; wrong in one's own, rather than right in another, 45 , 2 Ways to end, many, 10 , 44 Wayside , building by, 145 , 22 Weak , man, every, under a tyrant, 325 , 43; the, concessions of, 421 , 19; the, moderation of, 226 , 14; the, strength of, 323 , 41; when united, 512 , 49 Weakest , the, 386 , 2; spot, the, in every one, 461 , 38 Weaklings must lie, 443 , 31 Weakness , and ignorance, how to treat, 349 , 5; born vanquished, 403 , 29; every man his, 92 , 5; how not to expose a, 176 , 45; innate and acquired, 398 , 29; man's, God's respect for, 125 , 28; mischief of, 58 , 7; misery of, 490 , 44; not so dependent as strength, 403 , 30 Weaknesses , concealment of our, 564 , 4 Weal , every, has its woe, 90 , 34; human, the sum of, 187 , 37 Wealth , a burden, unless understood, 553 , 7; a dubious gain, 415 , 8; a form of, 357 , 8; a man's, the measure of, 533 , 29; a spring of, 220 , 30; accompaniments of, 49 , 56; amassing, 178 , 51; and freedom, effect of, 548 , 56; and place, get, 122 , 6; and poverty, 354 , 11; and poverty, connection of, with moral qualities, 152 , 21; Butler's definition of, 111 , 39; by mere labour and economy, 303 , 30; condition of possessing, 522 , 45; deference to, 329 , 3; effect of, 194 , 37; essence of, 426 , 3; evanesence of, 238 , 5; first, 428 , 43; for sake of independence, 118 , 55; gaining versus guiding, 119 , 10; gathering, 118 , 57; powerless to give happiness, 35 , 30; gotten before wit, 146 , 19; hidden, here, 243 , 13; how to save men from, 565 , 41; ill-acquired, 238 , 4; ill-gotten, not lasting, 181 , 43; in relation to man and woman, 124 , 14; instability of, 77 , 44; its destination nowadays, 53 , 14; limit to want, 250 , 11; loss of, misery of, 200 , 35; lust of, evil of, 345 , 43; man's best, 6 , 58; man's true, 91 , 7; material, of a country defined, 441 , 37; moral condition of the power of, 508 , 35; much, little enjoyment, 285 , 15; natural, according to Socrates, 47 , 21; not a source of pleasure, 513 , 23; not quickly won, 132 , 5; not happiness, 209 , 14; of Indies, who would bring home, 152 , 50; or want, children of, common fate of, 41 , 53; people of, 460 , 7; poor, keeping up appearance of, 311 , 30; poor man's, 41 , 45; parted with before death, 41 , 13; power of, 189 , 16; rapidly accumulated, 319 , 2; ruinous to a nation without intelligence, 305 , 27; sayings about, 461 , 39-44; source of, no question, 506 , 18;
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

{ Treeless spots | Spots without trees | Spots where no trees grew } were plainly visible.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

"There, there—I did not mean anything," was poor Vasili Ivanitch's reply.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

We come now to the second question we proposed, viz.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

June 9-10 .—I have been sitting late to-night by the bedside of a wounded captain, a special friend of mine, lying with a painful fracture of left leg in one of the hospitals, in a large ward partially vacant.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In very high-speed engines the governing will prevent variation of less than one per cent., even when the load is at one instant full on, and the next taken completely off.
— from How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams

"No one, methinks, would prefer virginity to the monastic life."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

390 From a photograph by C. S. Wright. Plate VIII.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it—these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.
— from Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

17 From an upper window at the side of the house, No. 18, St. Mary’s Place, an old graveyard was plainly visible, and frequently at night little Charles and his sister would gaze upon the God’s-acre and at the heavens above from that point of vantage.
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

George was progressing very well, and Charlie Orgreave had actually brought the oculist with his apparatus to see him at Charlie's house.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

As for immediate literary connections, suffice it here to say that the Bishop's brother, Dr. Giles Fletcher, was a cultivated diplomat and writer upon government, and that the sons of Dr. Giles were the clerical Spenserians, Phineas, but three years younger than his cousin the dramatist,—whose fisher-play Sicelides was acting at King's College, Cambridge, in the year of John's Chances in London, and whose Brittain's Ida is as light in its youthful eroticism as his Purple Island is ponderous in pedantic allegory,—and Giles, nine years younger than John, who was printing verses before John wrote his earliest play, and whose poem of Christ's Victorie was published, in 1610, a year or [65] so later than John's pastoral of The Faithfull Shepheardesse .
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

The time appears to be ripe for such a series, and if all the contributions are as good as Prof. Forbes’s, the book will deserve a wide circulation, and will prove very useful to a large class of readers.—
— from History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) From 1850 to 1910 by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

[93] Now any classification that starts with preconceived values or that works up to sentimental satisfactions is self-condemned as unscientific.
— from Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir