club m club ( A. political, 'usually clandestine').
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

At late as 1920, the government was proposing to make advances of fourteen cents a pound upon coffee in the parchment to encourage the development of the industry to a point where it would be possible for local coffee growers to capture at least the bulk of the commonwealth's import coffee trade of 2,605,240 pounds.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Disposuit armatos qui ipsum interficerent: hi protenus mandatum exequentes, &c. Ille et rex declarator, et Stratonicem quae fratri nupserat, uxorem ducit: sed postquam audivit fratrem vivere, &c. Attalum comiter accepit, pristinamque uxorem complexus, magno honore apud se habuit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But to all others the Spirit has been given by measure; in almost infinitely different measure it is true: the difference between the inspiration of the common and perhaps unworthy Christian who merely said that "Jesus was the Lord," and that of Moses, or St. Paul, and St. John, is almost to our eyes beyond measuring.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

Nell fought against her shyness; indeed, she remembered the simple folk of Shorne Mills, who talked as freely and frankly as this honest couple, and plucked up courage.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

This advantage, added to its permanence, has conferred a popularity upon cœruleum which its mere colour would scarcely have gained [191] for it.
— from Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by George Field

In using this gas, the same care about pasting up cracks and crevices in the room should be followed as already prescribed for the use of sulfur, and, as with sulfur, a reasonable precaution against fire should be taken by placing the apparatus in a tub of water or in a large pan of sand where accidents cannot happen.
— from Rural Hygiene by Henry N. (Henry Neely) Ogden

He argued that about one third of the railroads of the country are practically under control of the government, and thought the balance could easily be taken.
— from The Pullman Boycott: A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns

Above that ceiling and those vaults built up of huge bodies, where tumultuous confusion and powerful unity combine to evoke the monstrous dream of a Hindu and the imperious logic and iron will of ancient Rome, there blooms a beauty that is natural and pure.
— from Michelangelo by Romain Rolland

They now see clearly that the grand aim of the Order is to establish at least one fortress in every diocese with a Papal garrison, and to hold bishops, clergy, and people under complete subjection to Rome and her commands.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

[Looking out of the window towards the rise] If he buys the Centry and puts up chimneys, we simply couldn't stop here.
— from Plays : Fourth Series by John Galsworthy

The first experiment station was established at Middletown, Connecticut, in 1875, partly under state aid, partly through a gift from Orange Judd, partly in connexion with the Sheffield Scientific School, which from 1863 to 1892 was the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for the state of Connecticut, and partly under control of Wesleyan University, which contributed the use of its chemical laboratory; in 1877 it was removed to New Haven.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

It would create a position unnatural, cruel, hideous."
— from The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope