[323] Thus could speak concerning his country, about the middle of the fourteenth century, when the [Pg 203] results of the attempted experiment were certain and manifest, that great lover of books, a late student at Paris, who had been a fervent admirer of the French capital, Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

But Vajrasára , with his nose and ears cut off, remained there, depressed by great loss of blood, and loss of self-respect.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

Drain dry, stir in a great lump of butter, a little salt and pepper, and turn into a deep dish.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

Chop fine , and put into a saucepan, with a good lump of butter, a little pepper, salt and sugar.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

He held under Walter Giffard, lord of Bolbec and Longueville, and had joined, in 1061, in the donation of the church of Bolbec to the abbey of Bernay.
— from Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest From the Roman De Rou by Wace

Scores of mills have had their grounds laid out by a landscape architect, and a mill covered with ivy and surrounded by well-kept lawns and flower beds is no longer exceptional.
— from The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Holland Thompson

[186] The progress of painting, and the growing love of beauty, at length wrought a change.
— from The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

[215] {486}["Anthony had a noble dignity of countenance, a graceful length of beard, a large forehead, an aquiline nose: and, upon the whole, the same manly aspect that we see in the pictures and statues of Hercules.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron