And at the sound of the sacring bell, headed by a crucifer with acolytes, thurifers, boatbearers, readers, ostiarii, deacons and subdeacons, the blessed company drew nigh of mitred abbots and priors and guardians and monks and friars: the monks of Benedict of Spoleto, Carthusians and Camaldolesi, Cistercians and Olivetans, Oratorians and Vallombrosans, and the friars of Augustine, Brigittines, Premonstratensians, Servi, Trinitarians, and the children of Peter Nolasco: and therewith from Carmel mount the children of Elijah prophet led by Albert bishop and by Teresa of Avila, calced and other: and friars, brown and grey, sons of poor Francis, capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants and the daughters of Clara: and the sons of Dominic, the friars preachers, and the sons of Vincent: and the monks of S. Wolstan: and Ignatius his children: and the confraternity of the christian brothers led by the reverend brother Edmund Ignatius Rice.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

I have always regretted that feint of ours in going away and pretending to come back legally married, to save appearances.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

These losses, from June 1st to July 3d, were all substantially sustained about Kenesaw and Marietta, and it was really a continuous battle, lasting from the 10th day of June till the 3d of July, when the rebel army fell back from Marietta toward the Chattahoochee River.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

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— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

And one bad act with many deeds well done Mayst cover: well may then thy Lord appeas’d Redeem thee quite from Deaths rapacious claimes; But longer in this Paradise to dwell Permits not; to remove thee I am come, And send thee from the Garden forth to till The ground whence thou wast tak’n, fitter Soile.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

In the year 1515 Wolsey, Archbishop of York, was made Cardinal by Leo X.; Henry VIII.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

lídir 2 n a go-between or one who is the bearer of communications between lovers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The number of stalls in Henry VII.'s Chapel being limited, the erection of Stall plates and the display of banners ceased; those then in position were allowed to remain, and still remain at the present moment.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Their number, without an unwarrantable increase of expense, cannot be large enough to preclude a facility of combination.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The van was commanded by Lord George Murray, who, with about one-third of the army, was to have passed the water of Nairn about two miles distant from the town, and who, unexpected by the enemy, was to have invested the Duke's quarters, and to have made him prisoner.
— from The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.) by J. Pringle (James Pringle) Thomson

I must doubt, however, if truth is present where such analogies are worked out, for nothing can be less clear than the assertion that truth has unity.
— from Psychology: an elementary text-book by Hermann Ebbinghaus

A good style will have the sheen communicated by lubrication from within, not the gloss of outward rubbing.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

It was rare to hear of a child being lost in that safe city, and it would be a bitter blow to the already afflicted John Chester if harm befell his adopted daughter.
— from Dorothy by Evelyn Raymond

The candle burned lower and lower, but she never noticed it, and read on by its unsteady light until she heard the hall clock strike four.
— from The Little Colonel's House Party by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Had they exchanged subjects, neither of the cuts would have been so well executed; but in this case there call be little doubt that Nesbit would have engraved the figure and the rocks in the Cave of Despair better than Branston would have engraved the trees and the foliage in the cut of Rinaldo and Armida.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

These two offices, those of Tribune and Aedile, the result of the first secession, were filled by elections held at first in the Comitia Centuriáta, but later in an assembly called the COMITIA TRIBÚTA, which met sometimes within and sometimes without the city walls.
— from Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. by Robert F. Pennell

The High Churchman may think him unduly careless about forms and ceremonies; but, loving him very well, I yet wish to represent the Dean as he really was.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

One hundred and twenty thousand troops sent to the two armies by a state that contained but little more than a million people!
— from The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

And then Sylvia had stamped on her mind a picture which was to come back later—her father's face and eyes as he ran down the steps to meet his wife.
— from The Bent Twig by Dorothy Canfield Fisher