The present chapter is concerned mainly with ceremonial, public opinion, and law, three of the specific forms in which social control has universally found expression.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

The boys of Edinburgh, about twenty years ago, used to play at the hurly-hacket on the Calton Hill, using for their seat a horse's skull" (Scott).
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Speak the truth, and you shall not be friendless while I live.' Oliver's sobs checked his utterance for some minutes; when he was on the point of beginning to relate how he had been brought up at the farm, and carried to the workhouse by Mr. Bumble, a peculiarly impatient little double-knock was heard at the street-door: and the servant, running upstairs, announced Mr. Grimwig. 'Is he coming up?' inquired Mr. Brownlow.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

how these ignorant people did cry her up for it!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mrs. Hale called her unfeeling for saying this; and never gave herself breathing-time till the basket was sent out of the house.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

He scarce had said, when the bare Earth, till then Desert and bare, unsightly, unadorn’d, Brought forth the tender Grass, whose verdure clad Her Universal Face with pleasant green, Then Herbs of every leaf, that sudden flour’d Op’ning thir various colours, and made gay Her bosom smelling sweet: and these scarce blown, Forth flourish’t thick the clustring Vine, forth crept The smelling Gourd, up stood the cornie Reed Embattell’d in her field: add the humble Shrub, And Bush with frizl’d hair implicit: last Rose as in Dance the stately Trees, and spred Thir branches hung with copious Fruit; or gemm’d Thir Blossoms: with high Woods the Hills were crownd, With tufts the vallies & each fountain side, With borders long the Rivers.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

sisik, sísik n carapace of a sea turtle, or similar material from a carabao horn, used for making combs.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Circumstances, however, unexpectedly favoured him; and the garrison of Choueguen, in other words, of Oswego, capitulated.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

After all, There ‘s Ugo says the ring is only paste, For he ‘s sure the Count Castiglione never Would have given a real diamond to such as you; And at the best I’m certain, Madam, you cannot Have use for jewels now.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

[60-8] Yo obedecí sin rechistar, creyendo hacer un favor al extranjero.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

They had cut him up for convenience of transport; but his huge hoofs (as big as a cow’s) and his bristly iron-grey hide proved that he must have been a truly formidable monster: and for five piastres (ten pence) they sold us a big chunk of the meat.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

There was scarcely a space in the firmament which was not filled at every instant with these falling stars, nor on it could you in general perceive any particular difference in appearance; still at times they seemed to shower down in groups—calling to mind the fig tree, casting her untimely figs when shaken by a mighty wind."
— from Our Day In the Light of Prophecy by William Ambrose Spicer

Seppi woke up with a roar and cast himself upon Fritz, and in a moment the two boys were rolling about on the floor, yelling like Indians.
— from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

But the famous detective in his eventful career had usually found it advantageous to think twice before he acted.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

But he had command enough over himself to conceal his uneasiness from her, whilst his conscience upbraided him for harbouring the slightest suspicion of her fidelity.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

"For the past five years stories had been continually leaking out of Setoun's inhuman cruelty, his unscrupulous, fiendish tortures inflicted upon all those who displeased him, and how certain persons who stood in his way had died mysteriously or disappeared, no one knew whither.
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

The sudden storm does not catch her unprepared, for she cannot afford to lose even an hour's work next day because she "caught cold."
— from The Etiquette of To-day by Edith B. (Edith Bertha) Ordway

The Vandals of Africa cultivated his useful friendship; and the Ostrogoths of Pannonia were supported by his powerful aid against the oppression of the neighboring Huns.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Edward Gibbon