GRAMMAR REVIEW.--LESSON XXII Impersonal verbs.--Use of falloir .--Present participles.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
Inferno: Canto XXII Io vidi gia` cavalier muover campo, e cominciare stormo e far lor mostra, e talvolta partir per loro scampo; corridor vidi per la terra vostra, o Aretini, e vidi gir gualdane, fedir torneamenti e correr giostra; quando con trombe, e quando con campane, con tamburi e con cenni di castella, e con cose nostrali e con istrane; ne' gia` con si` diversa cennamella cavalier vidi muover ne' pedoni, ne' nave a segno di terra o di stella.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri
1021 The people of Sætabis, now Xativa in Valencia.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny
GIRY'S REVELATIONS XVII THE SAFETY-PIN AGAIN XVIII THE COMMISSARY, THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN XIX THE VISCOUNT AND THE PERSIAN XX IN THE CELLARS OF THE OPERA XXI INTERESTING VICISSITUDES XXII IN THE TORTURE CHAMBER XXIII
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
and xiv. is very great.
— from The Lost Gospel and Its Contents Or, The Author of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself by M. F. (Michael Ferrebee) Sadler
H2 anchor XXV In Virginia at the time of which I am writing, everybody, men, women, and children, read books and talked about them.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston
xvi Isanna Vantia * m.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison
If the conductor between the poles of the battery be such that the external resistance x becomes very great, then C = E / ( x + r ), where x is very great compared to r .
— from Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare Containing a Complete and Concise Account of the Rise and Progress of Submarine Warfare by Charles William Sleeman
Gospels [xi], in very small hand: collated by Casley and cited by Bentley as γ. Stonyhurst.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
[Pg 363] CHAPTER XI Is very well deserving the attention of all those who are about to marry While Miss Flora was buoyed up with the expectation that her mother would soon be reconciled with Mr. Goodman, she abated not of her former gaiety, and thought of nothing but indulging her amorous inclinations with the man she liked: but when once those expectations ceased, her spirits began to fail; she now found it necessary, for her interest as well as pleasure, to preserve, if possible, the affection of her lover; she knew not what dreadful consequences the prosecution
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood
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