Religion and morality, as they now stand, 35 compose a practical code of misery and servitude.... How would morality, dressed up in stiff stays and finery, start from her own disgusting image, should she look into the mirror of Nature!
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Camister , a preacher, clergyman, or master.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The rain returned to invigorate the languid soil, harmony was restored between priest and soldier, the green grass presently waved over the sere hillsides, the children flocked again to the side of their martial preceptor, a Te Deum was sung in the mission church, and pastoral content once more smiled upon the gentle valleys of San Carlos.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

CAMISTER, a preacher, clergyman, or master.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

I had dressed myself like a countryman, in an old pair of gray flannel trousers, heavy wooden shoes, and shabby shooting coat, a peaked cap on my head, a ragged bandana round my neck, hands soiled with mould, and a dibble in my hand.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

In the earlier correspondence and personal conferences of Minnesotians the only thought was of obtaining from Congress the establishment of a new territory.
— from Minnesota, the North Star State by William Watts Folwell

It prevents, on the one hand, that convulsion and precipitate change of measures into which a nation might be surprised by the going out of the whole Legislature at the same time, and the instantaneous election of a new one; on the other hand, it excludes that common interest from taking place that might tempt a whole Legislature, whose term of duration expired at once, to usurp the right of continuance.
— from The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

[C: A primary constituent of matter.
— from Twenty-One Days in India, or, the Tour Of Sir Ali Baba K.C.B.; and, the Teapot Series by George Aberigh-Mackay

Lubbock, ‘Origin of Civilization and Primitive Condition of Man.’ Particularly chapters on Religion, and page 119. 1870.
— from A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation by G. G. (Gustavus George) Zerffi

Travancore 7,091 2,952,157 Cochin 1,361 512,025 Briefly, the task which was set me in 1901 was to record the ‘manners and customs’ and physical characters of more than 300 castes and tribes, representing more than 40,000,000 individuals, and spread over an area exceeding 150,000 square miles.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 1 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

—The permanent magnet, such as is used in the magneto, is distinguished by the fact that it contains a permanent charge of magnetism, but this is not an electro-magnet .
— from Motors by James Slough Zerbe

Besides all this, there were magazines for corn and provision, capable of maintaining the inhabitants for twenty years; and arsenals, which supplied with arms such a number of fighting men, as seemed equal to the conquest or defence of the whole monarchy.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

Ives the Sculptor , since his return from Italy, has completed a plaster cast of Major General Scott , the mould of which he proposes to take with him when he again visits Italy, and reproduce the head in marble.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various