They may only be used for decoration and without religious signification; if they have the last, I have not been able to discover it.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

The entire movement of romanticism is perhaps best understood from this point of view.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

unge-bēt(ed) , -bett unatoned for , CP: unacquitted , EC 217.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

B = Under five years.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

There were many people called Hyrcani; and cities and regions, Hyrcania: in the history of which there will be uniformly found some reference to fire.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

But unhappily for us, in proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our Page 76 nature, and turned our reason against itself, in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They filled a vessel, which had been used for transporting horses, with dry twigs and other combustible wood, fixed two masts on the prow, and fenced it round in the form of a circle as large as possible, so that the enclosure might contain as much chaff and as many torches as possible.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Dead and fallen wood may be used for firewood.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Thus it is the excellence of a general, early to discover what turn the battle is likely to take; and looking prudently behind, as well as before, to pursue a victory so as not to be unprovided for a retreat.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

So art, whether it be painting or sculpture, poetry or music, has no other object than to brush aside the utilitarian symbols, the conventional and socially accepted generalities, in short, everything that veils reality from us, in order to bring us face to face with reality itself.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

—This and its variegated varieties are plants peculiarly suited for subtropical gardening, being useful for placing out of doors in summer in vases, tubs, or pots plunged in the ground, and also for the conservatory in winter.
— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson

So also when the building of a spirit has become unfit for further use, it must withdraw therefrom.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

An inevitable pause in the active operations now occurred while the siege-train at Agra was being equipped, while reinforcements and Peel's 68-pounders were being brought up from Allahabad to Cawnpore, and while the needful amount of ammunition, provisions, and carriage, and the numerous requirements of the artillery and engineer parks [154] were being concentrated in the same depôt.
— from Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde by Archibald Forbes

Time, with his noiseless step, glided on, till but a few weeks remained before the school would break up for the midsummer vacation.
— from Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past by Harriet S. Caswell

What a warm welcome they received from their old Eskimo friends; "they rowed to the boat and took hold on the oars and hung about with such comfortable joy as would require a long discourse to be uttered." Followed by a wondering crowd of natives eager to help him up and down the rocks, Davis made his way inland to find an inviting country, "with earth and grass such as our moory and waste grounds of England are"; he found, too, mosses and wild flowers in the sheltered places.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

Many of these officers complained that taking the best qualified Negroes out of black units for assignment to overhead detachments deprived black units of their leaders.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor

"Natural Selection," simply and by itself, is potent to explain the maintenance or the further extension and development of favourable variations, which are at once sufficiently considerable to be useful from the first to the individual possessing them.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Nothing like and nowhere near should not be used for not nearly .
— from Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

The prosecuting attorney, being up for reelection, hadn’t time, at that busy hour, to try a homicide case.
— from The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

It would be unjust for me not to add that, for the amount of liquor consumed, it was the soberest and the best-natured crowd I ever saw.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff