Salvation merely by self-control, and love without any rites, ceremonies, charms, priestly powers, gods or miracles, formed the burden of his {165} teachings.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

V. take, catch, hook, nab, bag, sack, pocket, put into one's pocket; receive; accept. reap, crop, cull, pluck; gather &c. (get) 775; draw.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

SYN: Journey, thoroughfare, road, course, avenue, route, channel, clause, phrase, sentence, paragraph.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

What we lack in music is an æsthetic which would impose laws upon musicians and give them a conscience; and as a result of this we lack a real contest concerning "principles."—For
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

the sunset from above, return Contents Contents p.2
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

One night at a resort called Cedar Point, he got into a fight and ran amuck like a wild thing.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Furnished with these qualifications, and not being liable to lose their office from the accidents of home politics, they identify their character and consideration with their special trust, and have a much more permanent interest in the success of their administration, and in the prosperity of the country which they administer, than a member of a cabinet under a representative constitution can possibly have in the good government of any country except the one which he serves.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

At the farther end of the church a long window entirely covered by a red calico curtain produced a magical effect.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He iz like a ritch cheeze, chuck phull ov little things.
— from The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Josh Billings

The woodcut, in the hands of a remarkable cutter, could produce miracles of delicacy.
— from Why Bewick Succeeded: A Note in the History of Wood Engraving by Jacob Kainen

Half a block from this tabernacle stood a Roman Catholic Church, prosperous, brazen, serene, flaunting an eternal permanence amidst the chaos which had succeeded permanence!
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

And the lover shall be noble"-- and so on, into a rhapsody of the valor of her lover, such as only a romantic child could picture.
— from Amanda: A Daughter of the Mennonites by Anna Balmer Myers

A rich compound colour, produced by the admixture of pure blue and pure red.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

He insists that neither incest nor promiscuity was "ever anything but the rarest exception in any stage of human culture, even the earliest; the former being prevented by the psychological difficulty with which love comes into play between persons either closely associated or strictly separated before the age of puberty, a difficulty enhanced by the ideas of sexual taboo, which are intensified in the closeness of the family circle, where practical as well as religious considerations cause parents to prevent any dangerous connections."
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard