[Military authorities] marshal, field marshal, marechal[obs3]; general, generalissimo; commander in chief, seraskier[obs3], hetman[obs3]; lieutenant general, major general; colonel, lieutenant colonel, major, captain, centurion, skipper, lieutenant, first lieutenant, second lieutenant, sublieutenant, officer, staff officer, aide-de-camp, brigadier, brigade major, adjutant, jemidar[obs3], ensign, cornet, cadet, subaltern, noncommissioned officer, warrant officer; sergeant, sergeant major; color sergeant; corporal, corporal major; lance corporal, acting corporal; drum major; captain general, dizdar[obs3], knight marshal, naik[obs3], pendragon.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This caused great disquietude to Fabius and other sensible Romans, who feared that if so many of the youth of Rome were cut off, the city would never recover from the blow.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

do a lot of work rapidly (as the Spanish civil guards do).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The luminary was a golden-haired, beaming, mild-eyed, God-like creature, gazing down in the vigour and intentness of youth upon an earth that was brimming with interest for him.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

La mesa ricamente servida, el mantel cogido con guirnaldas de flores, etc.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

The first to captivate and take his fancy were the pots, out of which he would have very gladly helped himself to a moderate pipkinful; then the wine skins secured his affections; and lastly, the produce of the frying-pans, if, indeed, such imposing cauldrons may be called frying-pans; and unable to control himself or bear it any longer, he approached one of the busy cooks and civilly but hungrily begged permission to soak a scrap of bread in one of the pots; to which the cook made answer, "Brother, this is not a day on which hunger is to have any sway, thanks to the rich Camacho; get down and look about for a ladle and skim off a hen or two, and much good may they do you."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When I heard the voices die away, and saw the quiet evening cloud grow dim, and all the colours in the valley fade, and the golden snow upon the mountain-tops become a remote part of the pale night sky, yet felt that the night was passing from my mind, and all its shadows clearing, there was no name for the love I bore her, dearer to me, henceforward, than ever until then.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

681-m. Deity acts by general laws for general purposes, 688-l. Deity acts by universal laws and constant modes of operation, 688-m. Deity, after creating the idea, might be called by the name of Tetragrammaton, 746-u. Deity, among the fundamental teachings of Gnosticism were emanations from, 248-l. Deity as manifested in Seir and the Universe are one when Regnum turns to her husband, 799-l. Deity as incomprehensible as ever, notwithstanding advances, 697-u. Deity at first looked up to with unquestioning reverence, 690-u. Deity, before He created any Ideal, was alone, without form, 745-l. Deity beyond human intellect, without name, form, limitation, 552-u. Deity causing good; demon causing evil,
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Peter, as the cab grew dim in the distance, leant against the wall sobbing.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

And the Editor of the Evening News when he reads this page will say: What luck that a certain Government did not know that Fanny!
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

"Great Heaven!" cried George, "don't you know me?"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Intimacy with choir girl; dismissed. 1903.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

CLARA G. DOLLIVER.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

Father's card had a rose on it; and Uncle's a Christmas tree; and Aunt Mary's had Santa Claus going down a chimney.
— from Mary's Rainbow by Mary Edward Feehan

Here comes Grandma Davis and Dorothy and Louise.
— from Cottage on the Curve by Mary Lamers

When the conversation had reached this point, the old woman called her husband down in a voice that seemed somewhat agitated, but not, as far as he could guess, disagreeably.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

These matamores are in great number all over the plain, and, on any prospect of corn growing dearer, they are opened, and corn sold at a low price both to the town and country.
— from Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, Volume 4 (of 5) In the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 and 1773 by James Bruce