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verb [ com- , intensive, + orior , rise ], rise, break forth cōpia, -ae , f. [ com- , intensive, + ops , wealth ], abundance, wealth, plenty .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge
You go wandering for hours among hills and wooded glens, artfully contrived to leave the impression that Nature shaped them and not man; following winding paths and coming suddenly upon leaping cascades and rustic bridges; finding sylvan lakes where you expected them not; loitering through battered mediaeval castles in miniature that seem hoary with age and yet were built a dozen years ago; meditating over ancient crumbling tombs, whose marble columns were marred and broken purposely by the modern artist that made them; stumbling unawares upon toy palaces, wrought of rare and costly materials, and again upon a peasant’s hut, whose dilapidated furniture would never suggest that it was made so to order; sweeping round and round in the midst of a forest on an enchanted wooden horse that is moved by some invisible agency; traversing Roman roads and passing under majestic triumphal arches; resting in quaint bowers where unseen spirits discharge jets of water on you from every possible direction, and where even the flowers you touch assail you with a shower; boating on a subterranean lake among caverns and arches royally draped with clustering stalactites, and passing out into open day upon another lake, which is bordered with sloping banks of grass and gay with patrician barges that swim at anchor in the shadow of a miniature marble temple that rises out of the clear water and glasses its white statues, its rich capitals and fluted columns in the tranquil depths.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
Therefore it was of course clearly a foregone conclusion, in 1906, that Governor Ide, who had been in the Islands all these years, was going to be wholly unable to see anything in the disturbances in Leyte in the least tending to show that American rule was unpopular.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount
The way to give a child a fair chance in life is not to bring it up in luxury, but to see that it has the kind of training that will give it strength of character.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
[Chang Yu attempts to explain the sequence of chapters as follows: "Chapter IV, on Tactical Dispositions, treated of the offensive and the defensive; chapter V, on Energy, dealt with direct and indirect methods.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi
Sustain thyself with Christ and for Christ if thou wilt reign with Christ.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas
“This was a necklace of Cleopatra’s,” said Simoun, taking out carefully a flat case in the shape of a half-moon.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal
From effect, accordingly is deduced cause and from cause is deduced the unconditioned.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The United States Dispensatory [236] summarizes the uses of caffein and coffee as follows: Caffein is a valuable remedy in practical medicine as a cerebral and cardiac stimulant and as a diuretic.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers
The simple double-toed condition, as found commonly in Houdans, may be called the duplex type (D).
— from Inheritance of Characteristics in Domestic Fowl by Charles Benedict Davenport
From Cairo a freer choice is left to the traveller.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839
Lieutenant Ruffner says: "The line once crossed, a foreign country is entered.
— from The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 by Various
After Jedediah Buxton, or about the same time, if I recollect rightly, came George Psalmanazar, from his Island of Formosa, who, with his pretended Dictionary of the Pormosan language, and the pounds of raw beef he devoured per day, excited the admiration and engrossed the attention of the Royal Society and of every curious and fashionable company in London: so that poor little I was forgotten, as though I had never been.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth
Mr. Downes glanced from his son’s swollen and disfigured face to my flapping coatsleeve, and fear came into his own countenance.
— from Swept Out to Sea Or, Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster
Whilst I languished in a condition too horrible to be described, and which, in a land of humanity, and, what is much more, Christianity, seems a strange punishment for a little inadvertency and indiscretion; whilst I was in this condition, a fellow came into the prison, and, enquiring me out, delivered me the following letter:— "SIR,—My father, to whom you sold your ticket in the last lottery, died the same day in which it came up a prize, as you have possibly heard, and left me sole heiress of all his fortune.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 2 by Henry Fielding
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