Unusual and foreign plants do less well, and often harmonize but poorly with their new setting.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. by Ellen Eddy Shaw

In the “Bon Sens” of Curé Meslier, it is asked: “Qu’est-ce que Dieu?” and the answer is: “C’est un mot abstrait fait pour désigner la force cachée de la nature;
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

This was the only accommodation for public dinners, large parties, balls, etc In this hotel the St. George Society annually celebrated their anniversary by a grand dinner party where heart-stirring speeches, toasts and patriotic songs, were the general order of programme, of which the following verses are an example.
— from Lady Rosamond's Secret: A Romance of Fredericton by Rebecca Agatha Armour

The remaining surfaces of arid lands are composed of exposed bedrock outcrops, desert soils, and fluvial deposits including alluvial fans, playas, desert lakes, and oases.
— from Deserts: Geology and Resources by A. S. (Alta Sharon) Walker

There are many here whose eyes can see as clearly as mine, but the prudence of whose tongues may not be equally trusted,' So saying, he turned easily away and joined a circle of officers at a few paces' distance, leaving Waverley to meditate upon his parting expression, which, though not intelligible to him in its whole purport, was sufficiently so in the caution which the last word recommended.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

In the latest edition of Homer, the word, which we have translated senses , is Aretae , or virtue , but the old and proper reading is Noos , as appears from Plato de Legibus, ch. 6, where he quotes it on a similar occasion.
— from An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African Translated from a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785, with Additions by Thomas Clarkson

But it seems also from Plato De Legg.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

"It is curious: one never believed it; in fact one hardly knew he had a head; but that's the way they all talk that come here, and they want me in all their studios; and Fräulein Paula did lend me once or twice, but in the other pictures one looks like a bear with seven senses, and don't know himself again."
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen