He was a bachelor, which is a matter Of import both to virgin and to bride, The former's hymeneal hopes to flatter; And (should she not hold fast by love or pride)
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

So he eagerly went to fight, showing that he was a seeker of honour and not the slave of lucre, and that he set bravery before lust of pelf; and intent to prove that his confidence was based not on hire, but on his own great soul.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

This morning I was busy looking over papers at the office all alone, and being visited by Lieut.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Bad habits—if not restrained by law or public opinion—spread more rapidly and universally than good ones, and the Spanish colonists adopted the use of tobacco almost as generally as the natives.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Note 82 ( return ) [ His eloquence is celebrated by Libanius, (Orat. Parent.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The rhyme of plaid with maid and betrayed is not imperfect, the Scottish pronunciation of plaid being like our played.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

He sails all along the canal, gets out of it, takes several turnings, and in a quarter of an hour, we reach Saint George where Balbi lands our prisoners, who are delighted to find themselves at liberty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But, let others philosophize; it is my province here to relate and describe; only allowing myself a word or two, occasionally, to assist the reader in the proper understanding of the facts narrated.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Our minds in any case would have to record the kind of nature it is, and write it down as operating through blind laws of physics.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Suddenly, as he [ 126 ] looked the man was gone, so he went on by himself, and arrived soon at another palace built likewise of precious stones.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

They came at last near enough to be discovered by Mary and Frank, who, seeing the boat load of passengers going up the river, needed no invitation to meet them at Duck Point.
— from The Young Marooners on the Florida Coast by F. R. (Francis Robert) Goulding

This was our friend the ex-collector of Boggley Wollah, whose rest was broken, like other people's, by the sounding of the bugles in the early morning.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This was regarded by the principal merchants of New York as an arbitrary exercise of authority, unwarranted by law or precedent, and a memorial was addressed by them to the President of the United States for the removal of the consul.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

Thus the Bristol water, which from determinations by Mr. W. N. Evans, contains considerable temporary hardness and but little of permanent, may be almost completely softened by Clark's method.
— from A Text-book of Tanning A treatise on the conversion of skins into leather, both practical and theoretical. by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

The city has not the air of stir and bustle, like other places of note in the interior, nor is it so well built; it has charms, however, in quietude, in verdant fields, the fertility of its lovely plain, its swift streams, long lines of gardens, all looking as if calmly cradled in the arms of the giant sierras that encircle it.
— from Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by H. A. (Henry Augustus) Wise

But as iron which is softened by the fire grows hard with the cold, and all its parts are closed again; so, as often as Socrates observed Alcibiades to be misled by luxury or pride he reduced and corrected him by his addresses, and made him humble and modest, by showing him in how many things he was deficient, and how very far from perfection in virtue.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

Geometry received another impetus in the book written by Leonardo of Pisa in 1220, the "Practica Geometriae.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith

To Robert Louis Stevenson: A Study, privately printed in 1895, she contributed a notable sonnet, the sestette beginning: “Louis, our priest of letters and our knight,” and a longer Valediction of a metre disturbing to the unpractised ear, but full of isolated lines of an individual beauty and also of a real grief: the lament of the pupil over his master, signalized in the significant line: “The battle dread is on us now, riding afield alone.”
— from Louise Imogen Guiney by Alice Brown

In 1285 Gianciotto Malatesta became lord of Pesaro, and on his death, in 1304, his brother Pandolfo inherited his domain.
— from Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Ferdinand Gregorovius