LE QUART D'HEURE DE RABELAIS Rabelais, à ce qu'on raconte, se trouva un jour à Lyon sans argent pour payer son hôte, et en même temps il se voyait dans l'impossibilité de continuer son voyage jusqu'à Paris.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

ANT: Provision, preparation, supply, rule, course.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Old Flathead, empty-headed meddler, know That I am proud possessing such appendice.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

At present, people see fogs, not because there are fogs, but because poets and painters have taught them the mysterious loveliness of such effects.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

In another place, Pepys says, “a vain coxcomb he is, though he sings so well.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

That, in consequence of their skill in building the magnificent cathedrals of this period, they now came to occupy a privileged position seems fairly certain.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

↑ 20 The Spectre Huntsman is said to butcher ( bantai ) his game, whenever he gets it, under a kind of wild areca palm ( pinang sĕnawar ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

This stood upon a terraced platform, cut from the living rock, and was a perfectly plain structure—with walls slightly receding inward as they rose, and wholly destitute of ornamentation.
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Mr. Motley's expression, “as being the fountain head of the disasters,” is a conversational paraphrase of the words of his instructions, “as it shows the beginning and the animus of that course of conduct which resulted so disastrously,” which is not “in precise conformity” with his instructions, but is just such a variation as is to be expected when one is talking with another and using the words that suggest themselves at the moment, just as the familiar expression, “hung up on a peg,” probably suggested itself to Lord Clarendon.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Even that Greek world, for which our scholars and poets profess such loving admiration, must have been in many ways a world of the same kind, whose daily mental existence no modern mind could share.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

“Is Wyverston a pretty place?” said Maida, but she checked herself almost as she said the words.
— from Philippa by Mrs. Molesworth

To stimulate spiritual endeavor and personal piety, Spener and his followers organized Bible study groups.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden