I am distantly related to you, and this obscure and remote relationship is even now a perfect godsend to me. — from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
a ring round its equator
Others are faint but more defined objects, some of them with small circular discs, and looking like a very dim Uranus, or even like Saturn—that is to say, like a planet with a ring round its equator. — from The Science of the Stars by E. Walter (Edward Walter) Maunder
a rapid rise in exports
The economy relies heavily on a narrow range of exports, notably bananas and coffee, making it vulnerable to natural disasters and shifts in commodity prices, but in recent years has experienced a rapid rise in exports of light manufacturers. — from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
For it is far less difficult to march up a steep ascent without fighting than along a level road with enemies on each side; and, in the night, if men are not obliged to fight, they can see better what is before them than by day if engaged with enemies; while a rough road is easier to the feet to those who are marching without molestation than a smooth one to those who are pelted on the head with missiles. — from The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis by Xenophon
and racily reproducing in extenso
In Blurt Master Constable , Lazarillo de Tormes, at the house of the courtezan Imperia, meets with precisely the same accident, Act iii, Scene 3, Act iv, Scenes 2 and 3, and it is probable that Mrs. Behn did not go directly to the Decameron but drew upon Middleton, of whom she made very ample use on another occasion, borrowing for The City Heiress no small portion of A Mad World, My Masters , and racily reproducing in extenso therefrom Sir Bounteous Progress, Dick Folly-Wit, the mock grandee, and that most excellent of all burglaries good enough for Fielding at his best. — from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I by Aphra Behn
a royal robe investing even
The veriest scoffer that ever made mock of fine beliefs and fair virtues must have been momentarily awed and silenced in the presence of such a man as this,—a man upon whom the grace of a perfect life seemed to have fallen like a royal robe, investing even his outward appearance with spiritual authority and grandeur. — from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli
ad religionem reducere i e
The mind is ever attaining to new truths, and is confirming the remark so often quoted from a celebrated English Chancellor, (Bacon) a remark which applies as well to revealed as to natural religion, of which Christianity is but the development; Leves gustus in philosophia movere fortasse ad atheismum, sed pleniores haustus ad religionem reducere : i. e. superficial knowledge in philosophy may perhaps lead to atheism, but a fundamental knowledge will lead to religion ." — from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various
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