These atrocities were practised by those who claim to be the only enlightened and liberal characters of our day—by Unitarians and Socinians—by men too, whose complaints respecting bigotry and intolerance, have been the burden of many a long article, expressly designed to represent orthodoxy as peculiarly relentless and cruel.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

[of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid[obs3], rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral[obs3], lentiginous[obs3], touched, fusty, effete, reasty[obs3], rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous[obs3]; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous[obs3], excrementitious[obs3]; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous[obs3]; gory, bloody; rotting &c. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Here they fell to, the men plying a stone jar freely, and passing round a cup.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

In the long run, however, when the process of purification has come to a successful termination, all those forces which were formerly wasted in the struggle between the disharmonious qualities are at the disposal of the organism as a whole, and this is why purified races have always become stronger and more beautiful.—The Greeks may serve us as a model of a purified race and culture!—and it is to be hoped that some day a pure European race and culture may arise.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Be pleased to divide the Spaces of a Publick Room, and certify Whistlers, Singers, and Common Orators, that are heard further than their Portion of the Room comes to , that the Law is open, and that there is an Equity which will relieve us from such as interrupt us in our Lawful Discourse, as much as against such as stop us on the Road.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

bring in, yield, afford, pay, return; accrue &c. (be received from) 785.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The reaction would then hardly seem to occur without a preliminary recognition and choice.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

II BEGINNING LIFE AS A PRINTER ROM a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
— from Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin

The symbols of greatness, a throne, a sceptre, a purple robe, a crown, a fillet, these were sacred in their sight.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Tour Mataquerre, of the fourteenth century, is a part of the ramparts; St. Étienne, formerly the cathedral, eleventh and twelfth centuries, with three domes; Roman amphitheatre of third century A.D. , converted into a castle in twelfth century; Tour de Vésone, part of a Roman temple; Château Barrière has a Roman base; near it is a plain Roman arch, called the Porte Normande.
— from The Motor Routes of France To the Châteaux of Touraine, Biarritz, the Pyrenees, the Riviera, & the Rhone Valley by Gordon Home

We hear of him only as further [p. 140] ing, for his own profit, a political revolution at Chios.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

Of West India sugar and molasses, the Santa Cruz and Porto Rico are considered the best.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

You could count a dozen different kinds of cakes and pies, rolls and cookies on those pantry shelves, yet several of them were made out of the same dough.
— from Earth and Sky Every Child Should Know Easy studies of the earth and the stars for any time and place by Julia Ellen Rogers

The strength of a character is shown by the ability to delay and postpone reaction: a certain ἀδιαφορία is just as proper to it, as involuntariness in recoiling, suddenness and lack of restraint in "action," are proper to weakness.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It's a wrang an' a richt, or pairt wrang an' a pairt richt 'at clashes.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

But lithium is placed by Crookes at the head of a group, the other members of which are potassium, rubidium and cæsium (the last not examined).
— from Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by Annie Besant