19 Trimalchio, fictitious character by Petronius, whose “Banquet” is the only surviving description of a Roman dinner, unfortunately exaggerated because it was a satire on Nero, pp.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

V ARIANT : A razón de un volumen por día.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The brain is essentially an organ for effecting the reciprocal adjustment to each other of the stimuli received from the environment and responses directed upon it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Darius and his army remained drawn up during the night in the same order as that in which they had first arrayed themselves; because they had not surrounded themselves with a completely entrenched camp, and, moreover, they were afraid that the enemy would attack them in the night.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

These words, uttered in a tone of surprise and reproach, drew upon this unknown personage the attention of the archdeacon which, to tell the truth, had not been diverted from him a single moment since the stranger had set foot across the threshold of his cell.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

ANT: Radiate, diverge, unravel, disconnect.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And on that evening when the sea tossed hither and thither and roared dully under the load of fog, and the whimsical wind in mournful astonishment gently stirred the sails of the ships; when the citizens meeting on the streets asked one another: “Is he dead?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The landlady, who heard from the stairs all that past between the serjeant and Mrs Waters, came hastily down, and running directly up to her, began to ask pardon for the offences she had committed, begging that all might be imputed to ignorance of her quality: for, “Lud! madam,” says she, “how should I have imagined that a lady of your fashion would appear in such a dress?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

[pg 502] for him who strives after true holiness; the surrender of all possessions, the forsaking of every dwelling-place and of all relatives; deep unbroken solitude, spent in silent contemplation, with voluntary penance and terrible slow self-torture for the absolute mortification of the will, torture which extends to voluntary death by starvation, or by men giving themselves up to crocodiles, or flinging themselves over the sacred precipice in the Himalayas, or being buried alive, or, finally, by flinging themselves under the wheels of the huge car of an idol drawn along amid the singing, shouting, and dancing of bayaderes.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

All the warriors showed their satisfaction in the words and looks that Star and Running Deer understood plainly.
— from Star: The Story of an Indian Pony by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

Put a red dot upon each of these sites on the map of London, and consider how very small can be the influence of these libraries over the whole of this great city.
— from As We Are and As We May Be by Walter Besant

Their conveyance is no handsome carriage, but a rickety dogcart, unmistakably betraying its neighbourship to the carts and ploughs of some rural farmyard.
— from Charlotte Brontë: A Monograph by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

Sometimes one and one-half bushels of ears make a bushel of shelled corn, and sometimes it requires two bushels, the amount required depending upon the size of the cob, shape of the ear, etc.
— from 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Clark) Fowler

Meanwhile the Coal & Iron Company had reported a regular deficit up to 1880, which, though not significant in itself, because of close relations with the Railroad Company and the impossibility of determining how much the Coal Company’s rightful profits were reduced by exorbitant transportation rates, yet made it very clear that from this source the Railroad Company could expect no aid toward the cancellation of the railroad deficit revealed.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

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— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

A Roman division under Lucius Hortensius occupied Thessaly and made incursions into Macedonia; another under Munatius stationed itself before Chalcis, to keep off the enemy's corps under Neoptolemus in Euboea; Sulla himself formed a camp at Eleusis and Megara, from which he commanded Greece and the Peloponnesus, and prosecuted the siege of the city and harbour of Athens.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

The history of the German experience with the French indemnity suggests the question whether in every case an enormous discount on the nominal value of a large money indemnity must not be allowed owing to the practical financial difficulties of its payment and receipt, difficulties unavoidable in any circumstances which we need consider.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

The globose form given to the chests of effigies, such as that of the Black Prince, seems to imply the presence of a rigid defence under the emblazoned surcoat.
— from Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner

The five saw in the spaces, amid the briars and vines, scores of dark figures leaping over the mud, naked to the breech cloth, armed with rifle and tomahawk, and rushing down upon the unprotected side of their foe.
— from The Scouts of the Valley by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler