A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

When it was animated, it was as if the rock gave out silver lights of mica and rosy crystal under strong light, and as if the dead leaf leapt into flame.
— from 'Doc.' Gordon by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

There is a chair at either side of the table, and at right coming up stage, the room turns at a sharp angle of thirty-five degrees, and this space is largely taken up by a large doorway.
— from The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 by Eugene Walter

“Quaedam vero relationes sunt quantum ad utrumque extremum res naturae, quando scilicet est habitudo inter aliqua duo secundum aliquid realiter conveniens utrique; sicut patet de omnibus relationibus quae consequuntur quantitatem, ut magnum et parvum, duplum et dimidium, et hujusmodi; nam quantitas est in utroque extremorum: et simile est de relationibus quae consequuntur actionem et passionem, ut motivum et mobile, pater et filius, et similia.” — St. Thomas , Summa Theol. , i., q. xiii., art.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

The girls fought sturdily against the wind and rain, carrying us steadily up until after a while I could not see the water below.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings

At one end of the ground a reef cropped up, shelving inwards very much.
— from A Boy's Voyage Round the World by Samuel Smiles

But teach her to reason—man to feel; open up to her the sources of knowledge, and cause him to learn the times of the tides of affection; cultivate her intellect and his heart, and in the healthy action and reaction consequent upon such a balance of forces, you have the true relationship established between the sexes, the relationship which the Creator pronounced perfect in the beginning.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

The singularly vibrant voice that had been echoing in his memory since New Year's eve was saying directly behind him: "I shall give them all the chocolate they want, Captain Harold Phipps, and you may court-martial me later if you like!" Quin glanced up hastily, and there, framed in the doorway, in a Red Cross uniform, stood his dream girl, looking so much more ravishing than she had before that he promptly snatched the blue and gray vision from its place of honor and installed a red, white, and blue one instead.
— from Quin by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

As soon as a candidate receives the number of votes necessary to nominate, which is two-thirds of the delegates in a Democratic convention and a majority in a Republican convention, usually some one moves that the nomination be made unanimous, which is adopted with great applause.
— from Citizenship: A Manual for Voters by Emma Guy Cromwell

The infantry and rifle corps under Simcoe were now brought into action.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing