A peevish boy or girl, or rather an unsocial ill-tempered man or woman.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Studies of folkways, mores, culture, nationality, the products of a historical or cultural process, disclose types of social contact which transcend the barriers of geographical or racial separation, and reveal social forms of isolation which prevent communication where there is close geographical contact or common racial bonds.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Every household, however poor, managed to raise a “feast-cake” and a bottle of ginger or raisin wine, which stood on the cottage table ready for all comers, and not unlikely to make them remember feast-time, for feast-cake is very solid, and full of huge raisins.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

But one general officer reported present for duty in the artillery, and Alexander's name not on the original.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The others, unable to keep their balance, wander about on the nearest bit of grass or remain on the osier-shoots on which I have placed them, refusing to fly even when I tickle them with a straw.
— from The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre

He secured this very often by not confusing his tints, and by allowing a single colour so to predominate that the window impressed you at once as bluish or greenish or reddish in tone.
— from Windows: A Book About Stained & Painted Glass by Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman) Day

When this amount has been produced by one gram of radium, the formation and decay will exactly balance one another.
— from A Brief Account of Radio-activity by F. P. (Francis Preston) Venable

“Therefore,” he continues, “works do not render us good, but our goodness, or rather the goodness of God, makes us good and our works good; for in themselves they would not be good, and they are or are not good in so far as God accounts them, or does not account them good (‘ quantum ille reputat vel non reputat ’).
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

These grounds were first, the consciousness that Irish Catholics had been for generations systematically excluded from all posts that were in the gift of Irish Protestants and the consequent probability that reprisals would be called for and taken; second, the innate conviction, born of generations of religious controversy and suspicion, that Catholics were “not to be trusted,” that, whatever they said to the contrary, they were certain to act harshly towards Protestants, and that the accession to power in Ireland of a permanent Catholic majority would mean persecution in matters of religion and corruption in matters of administration.
— from The Evolution of Sinn Fein by Robert Mitchell Henry

[56] for this feeling; but it is a fact that you can cheerfully gnaw a solid block of grease or raw fat that it would make you almost sick to look at in a land of temperate climate and civilized methods of living.
— from The Barren Ground of Northern Canada by Warburton Pike

the [pg 338] subject of the relation and the term to which the subject is referred, and what is called the foundation , or basis, or ground, or reason, of the relation ( fundamentum relationis).
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

About the year 1745, the men of the battalion companies of infantry ceased to carry swords; during [xv] the reign of George II. light companies were added to infantry regiments; and in 1764 a Board of General Officers recommended that the grenadiers should lay aside their swords, as that weapon had never been used during the Seven Years' War.
— from Historical Record of the Twenty-first Regiment, or the Royal North British Fusiliers Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1678, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1849 by Richard Cannon

Every night, in bed, we decided twenty times over whether they would be lace-ups or bluchers, and Dave had a bottle of "goanna" oil ready to keep his soft with.
— from On Our Selection by Steele Rudd

"The commander-in-chief approves of the opinion of the Board of general officers respecting Major Andre, and orders that the execution of Major Andre take place to-morrow at five o'clock P.M." * Miss Seward, in her poem entitled "The Anniversary," thus alludes to her cousin: "Why fled ye all so fast, ye happy hours, That saw Honora's eyes adorn these bowers!
— 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