[452] Then Messer Gentile, rising to his feet and taking the little child in his arms and the lady by the hand, made for Niccoluccio and said to him, 'Rise up, gossip; I do not restore thee thy wife, whom thy kinsfolk and hers cast away; nay, but I will well bestow on thee this lady my gossip, with this her little son, who I am assured, was begotten of thee and whom I held at baptism and named Gentile; and I pray thee that she be none the less dear to thee for that she hath abidden near upon three months in my house; for I swear to thee,—by that God who belike caused me aforetime fall in love with her, to the intent that my love might be, as in effect it hath been, the occasion of her deliverance,—that never, whether with father or mother or with thee, hath she lived more chastely than she hath done with my mother in my house.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It is not quite certain that it may not have been through some euphemistic process that Fire-worship arose in Persia.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It seemed, as in polar countries, that night and day no longer followed their regular course.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

It was an important point in the geography and astronomy of the ancients; for, lying just under the tropic of Cancer, it was chosen as the place through which they drew their chief parallel of latitude.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

She gave no answer to this polite speech, and held out her plate to me, and I put a handful of sequins on it, treating the other beggars in the same way.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

That is, when named by the psychologist, it may mean much more than actually is present to the thought of which he is reporter.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Burlington Bay," it is then rather boldly asserted, "is perhaps as beautiful and romantic a situation as any in interior America, particularly if we include with it a marshy lake which falls into it, and a noble promontory that divides them.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He wore a look of stern sadness and infinite pity.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Now it was an ill piece of luck for Little John that he left his duty for his pleasure, and he paid a great score for it, as we are all apt to do in the same case, as you shall see.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

'You favoured me, Mr Handford,' said Mr Inspector, 'by writing down your name and address, and I produce the piece of paper on which you wrote it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But I have an ideal—a semi-transparent Being, filled with an inorganic pink jelly—and I have never yet seen the woman who approaches within measurable distance of it.
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

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— from Kitty of the Roses by Ralph Henry Barbour

Alike in Christian and in pre-Christian times there seems to have been a most unwholesome dread of fresh air blowing about holy things.
— from The Holy Land by John Kelman

[Footnote 1: I borrow the verse and in part the prose of Professor W. Rhys Roberts' translation.]
— from On The Art of Reading by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The county court is held at the county seat of every county and is presided over by the county judge.
— from Citizenship: A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell

"If," said he, "I have given any occasion for complaint, I am ready to answer in property and person.
— from The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms

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— from Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

Long time ago in Palestine, Upon a wintry morn, All in a lowly cattle-shed [Pg 169] The Prince of Peace was born.
— from Dwellers in Arcady: The Story of an Abandoned Farm by Albert Bigelow Paine

and I Pearl's new car is a wonder.
— from Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison by Nelson Lloyd

Seeing that I was friendly, she made a painful effort to unburden her distressed heart; but no longer able to express herself satisfactorily, she soon became silent again, and with an indescribably piteous look let her tongue loll from her mouth, thus taking away her last trace of beauty in my eyes.
— from A Divided Heart and Other Stories by Paul Heyse