Thus by my talents, honesty, and acuteness, I had, considering I was a poor patronless outcast, raised for myself very powerful protectors.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

They can be carried about on a pole put through the orifice, or may be comfortably hung upon a peg.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Even this antique virtue was short-lived and sadly thwarted by private and party passion.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And freely to speak my thoughts, it argues a strange self-love and great presumption to be so fond of one’s own opinions, that a public peace must be overthrown to establish them, and to introduce so many inevitable mischiefs, and so dreadful a corruption of manners, as a civil war and the mutations of state consequent to it, always bring in their train, and to introduce them, in a thing of so high concern, into the bowels of one’s own country.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The great Clock ticks now in a private patriotic Clockmaker's apartment; no longer measuring hours of mere heaviness.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But we will first consider what particular sort of democracy is fitted to a particular city, and also what particular oligarchy to a particular people; and of other states, what is advantageous to what.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

——It answered prodigiously the next summer——the town was a perfect Proteus ——It was Landen, and Trerebach, and Santvliet, and Drusen, and Hagenau, 197 —and then it was Ostend and Menin, and Aeth and Dendermond.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Miss M. conveys to us a third volume of sermons, from Hamstall, just published, and which we are to like better than the two others; they are professedly practical, and for the use of country congregations.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Proheme , sb. a proem, prologue, C2.—OF. proëme ; Lat. proemium ; Gr. προοίμιον .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It struck from Honiton, by Rockbeare and Clyst Honiton, and shows its [69] antiquity by being the bounds of Broadclyst and Rockbeare, Sowton and Pinhoe parishes.
— from A Book of the West. Volume 1: Devon Being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

They were almost always together, seldom if ever were they seen separate—at the pump-room in the morning; at the library and reading-room at noon, when the papers came in; at the theatre, or at private parties, in the evening; Mr. Fox and Mrs. Armstead were always to be seen together.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Coffee scuffle; occasioned by a contest between a learned knight and a pitifull pedagogue, with the character of a coffee house.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Which he 's too much of a philosopher To count as supernatural, indeed, So calls a puzzle and problem, proud of it:
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

And please, dear Mr. Trelyon, don't get a very expensive one, but a plain, good one, just what a poor person like me would buy for a present if I wanted to.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various

Shortly after this Vogt inherited a small property from his wife's father, and the toll on the highway being at the same time abolished, he bought the now superfluous house cheap from the State, and set up as a peasant proprietor.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

Good herbs and oatmel chopped, put them into boiling 420 png449 liquor in a pipkin, pot, or skillet, with some salt, and being boil’d put to it butter.
— from The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery by Robert May

He had lunched freely before coming to Blanca's Christmas function, but by four o'clock, the gases which had made him feel the world a pleasant place had nearly all evaporated, and he was suffering from a wish to drink again.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

A profound prostration succeeded to that feverish excitement of my senses.
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

English economists, from Smith to McCulloch, from McCulloch to Mr. Sidgwick, have adhered with a truly remarkable steadiness to a social doctrine of a precisely contrary character—a social doctrine which, instead of exhibiting any unreasonable aversion to Government interference, expressly assigns to Government a just and proper place in promoting the social and industrial development of the community.
— from Contemporary Socialism by John Rae