Middleton, and others, and among other things about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold’s, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
At the Coffee-house, where much talking about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that; already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
You are here only on sufferance!'
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
And remember that you are here only on sufferance.
— from In the Sweet Dry and Dry by Bart Haley
Middleton, and others, and among other things about a very rich widow, young and handsome, of one Sir Nicholas Gold's, a merchant, lately fallen, and of great courtiers that already look after her: her husband not dead a week yet.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 26: January/February 1663-64 by Samuel Pepys
Instead of that, here you are, hardly out of sight of camp, perched on the top of a wagon, as chipper as a couple of sparrows after a rainstorm."
— from Campmates: A Story of the Plains by Kirk Munroe
[53] A close conjunction of Venus and Regulus (α Leonis) is recorded by the Arabian astronomer, Ibn Yunis, as having occurred on September 9, 885 A.D. Calculations by Hind show that the planet and star were within 2′ of arc on that night, and consequently would have appeared as a single star to the naked eye.
— from Astronomical Curiosities: Facts and Fallacies by J. Ellard (John Ellard) Gore
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