And, more delightful still, the gingerbread seller knew all sorts of things to tell and could even relate stories about his own gingerbread.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

SYN: Analogy, correspondence, equality, resemblance, [See ANALOGY].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Tundatur mediana; et si sanguis apparet clarus et ruber, supprimatur; aut si yere, si niger aut crassus permittatur fluere pro viribus aegri, dein post 8.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

CATHERINE DOMAIN [FR, EN, ES] [FR] Catherine Domain (Paris) #Créatrice de la librairie Ulysse, la plus ancienne librairie de voyage au monde Située au coeur de Paris, dans l'île Saint-Louis, la librairie Ulysse est la plus ancienne librairie de voyage au monde, avec plus de 20.000 livres neufs et anciens, cartes et revues sur tous les pays et pour tous les voyages.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But this description of his limits was unjust and parsimonious: beyond the Oxus, he reduced to his obedience the cities of Bochara, Carizme, and Samarcand, and crushed each rebellious slave, or independent savage, who dared to resist.
— 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

Helmholtz The more impotant of these works we owe to Romanes The more important of these works we owe to Romanes Formerly assistant and pupil of Helmholz , Wundt had early Formerly assistant and pupil of Helmholtz , Wundt had early all other viviporous animals, precisely because the complete all other viviparous animals, precisely because the complete recent students of the protists, afford conlcusive evidence recent students of the protists, afford conclusive evidence a thinker is very striking; in explaning it, it is not a thinker is very striking; in explaining it, it is not "have no individuals and no generations in the matazoic sense."
— from The Riddle of the Universe at the close of the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel

Moreover, all the patients of Madame de Jonquiere’s carriage took up position here—M. Sabathier and Brother Isidore side by side, Madame Vetu reclining hopelessly in a conveyance, Elise Rouquet seated, La Grivotte excited and raising herself on her clenched hands.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete by Émile Zola

Jamaica's medium-term prospects will depend upon encouraging investment, maintaining a competitive exchange rate, selling off reacquired firms, and implementing proper fiscal and monetary policies.
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

He reached the boat panting and out of breath, and catching hold near me with an almost convulsive effort, remained some minutes without being able to speak a word.
— from The Island Home by Richard Archer

“Rebuked and chided,” exclaimed Roderick, softly.
— from The Treasure of Hidden Valley by Willis George Emerson

“Then, of course, it’s swell enough work to have to go about and tell the monitors what they’ve got to do, but I’m not so sure if it’s a good thing to mix altogether with monitors—likely to spoil a chap, eh?” “Rather,” said Parson.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

Judicial branch: NA *Tajikistan, Government Leaders: Chief of State: Acting President and Assembly Chairman Emomili RAKHMANOV (since NA November 1992)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Methinks it came in part of a certain eager restless spirit that did long to be a-doing, and such little matters as do commonly fall to women’s lot seemed mean and worthless in mine eyes.
— from Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall by Emily Sarah Holt

The circuit was trilateral, and to a considerable extent remains so.
— from The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. 1 (of 2) As Illustrated in the Career of Sir Rutherford Alcock, K.C.B., D.C.L., Many Years Consul and Minister in China and Japan by Alexander Michie