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Les Femmes Savantes, though produced many years subsequently, also found the originals of its characters in the same source whence Molière painted Les Précieuses Ridicules.

"I shall not dwell on the death-bed scene, lively as is the remembrance, or on the emotion produced by the last grasp of my mother's cold hand; when blessing me, she added, 'A little patience, and all will be over! Ah! my child, how often have those words rung mournfully in my ears and I have exclaimed 'A little more patience, and I too shall be at rest!

Soon after he left the hotel, saying that he would send for his luggage later. But even after he had done all that, Captain Frazier stood motionless in the grounds watching the darkened windows of Gerelda's room. The fire in his brain, produced by the potion he had taken, made sad havoc with his imagination.

This calm and temperate discussion of the situation, coupled with the firm statement of intention with which it closed, produced a decided effect on Aguinaldo. Concerning the events to which it led, General Otis has made this statement:

Only the man who has tried to write fiction himself knows what it means when it is recorded that Scott produced two of his long novels in one single year.

'Come, said the Nazarene, as he perceived the effect he had produced, 'come to the humble hall in which we meet a select and a chosen few; listen there to our prayers; note the sincerity of our repentant tears; mingle in our simple sacrifice not of victims, nor of garlands, but offered by white-robed thoughts upon the altar of the heart.

Morgan saw Frosch down stairs, watched him go along the street upon his errand and produced his books and accounts, which were simple and very easily settled. "And may I inquire of what nature, pray?" asked the major.

I will not again refer to the mournful effects produced on your own health from this indulgence in opium, by which you have undermined your strong constitution; but I must notice the injurious consequences which this passion for the narcotic drug has on your literary efforts.

Muscular activity is produced by the conversion of latent energy into motion, and fever is produced largely in the muscles by the conversion of latent energy into heat.

Some ancient notices appear to imply a belief on the part of the Greeks and Romans that she produced and exported various spices. Horace speaks of Assyrian nard Virgil of Assyrian amomuum, Tibullus of Assyrian odors generally. AEschylus has an allusion of the same kind in his Agamemnon.