The mockersons of both sexes are usually the same and are made of deer Elk or buffaloe skin dressed without the hair.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

This procedure gained him the good-will of the multitude; for such as had an affection for Abner were mightily satisfied with the respect he paid him when he was dead, and the observation of that faith he had plighted to him, which was shown in his vouchsafing him all the usual ceremonies, as if he had been his kinsman and his friend, and not suffering him to be neglected and injured with a dishonorable burial, as if he had been his enemy; insomuch that the entire nation rejoiced at the king's gentleness and mildness of disposition, every one being ready to suppose that the king would have taken the same care of them in the like circumstances, which they saw be showed in the burial of the dead body of Abner.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It was for him a moment of delightful expectancy, of inquiry and vague anxiety.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He. 5.5, et al.; to cause a manifestation of dignity, excellence, or majesty, Jno. 12.28; 13.32, et al.; to glorify by admission to a state of bliss, to beatify, Ro. 8.30, et al. Δορκάς, άδος, ἡ a gazelle or antelope, Ac. 9.36, 39.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The fabric of social life is interwoven with a multitude of delicate evasions, of small hypocrisies, of matters of tinsel sentiment; social intercourse would be impossible, if it were not so.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Said Josephine, with a movement of despair, “Every one sets up a little shop.”
— from In the Village of Viger by Duncan Campbell Scott

Tertullian, Cyprian, Gregory of Nyssa, Hilary of Poitiers, Spyridon, Synesius, and many other distinguished ecclesiastics of early times, are recorded to have been married.
— from The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity by W. H. (William Henry) Withrow

Under any method of distributing expense on a pro-rata basis, it is apparent there will be small balances
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

To liberate his soul was for him a gigantic undertaking, a matter of desperate effort, of doubtful success.
— from The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows by Joseph Conrad

The slow movement is a model of deep expression, of grandeur, and of the sublime in music [21] ; and the rondo is no less remarkable for air, for gaiety, than for ingenuity—for that kind of treat
— from The Harmonicon. Part the First by Various

Rexin looked as if he were about to answer, but Botho did not notice him and went on: "My dear Rexin, a short time ago you were speaking, in a way that might serve as a model of decorous expression, of relations 'where beginning and breaking off may happen within the same hour,' but these relations, which are really none at all, are not the worst.
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller

A multiplicity of different effects, of which experience does not always reveal the connection, would not conduct to a single cause and to one God, but rather to a plurality of causes and a plurality of gods, did not reason teach us that "all plurality implies an ultimate indivisible unity," and therefore there must be a First Cause of all causes, a First Principle of all principles, the Substance of all substances, the Being of all beings-- a God "of whom, in whom, and to whom are all things" (πάντα ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ, ἐν τῷ θεῷ, εἰς τὸν θεόν).
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Though years spent in respectable periodical writing can by no means be termed misspent, yet such a career presents in the retrospect but a multitude of disconnected essays on all conceivable themes, and such as too often prove their hurried composition by crudeness and imperfections.’
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller