SYN: Component, element, characteristic, indication, portion, mark, lineament, sign.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

And when ye are cursed, it pleaseth me not that ye should then desire to bless.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But this comparison is perhaps more important than it claims to be.
— from Totem and Taboo Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics by Sigmund Freud

Inferno: Canto III Per me si va ne la citta` dolente, per me si va ne l'etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

In apparent contradiction of this opinion, Dr. Valentin Nalpasse, [190] of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, states: When coffee is properly made and taken in moderation, it is a most valuable drink.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

That eldest Babu, who has preserved my caste; he through whose influence I am living here; he, who by preserving my plough and the cows, is preserving my life,—shall I by giving false evidence throw the father of that Babu into prison?
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

H2 anchor Chapter I: Philosophical Method Among the Americans
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The books which bear the most remarkable resemblance to each other are the Bible and Homer, because the people they describe and the men about whom they speak are forerunners of civilization in pretty much the same degree.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

2. The rest of the cities in Peloponnese may be included in this treaty and alliance, as independent and sovereign, in full enjoyment of what they possess, all disputes being decided by fair and impartial arbitration, agreeably to the customs of the said cities.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Then again, it might come into play medicinally; and Paracelsus himself stands sponsor for every cup drunk for the good of the abdomen.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

When he arrived at Los Angeles, in 1853, as he was fond of recounting, he was too poor to possess even surveying instruments; but he found a friend in John Temple, who let him have one hundred dollars at two per cent interest per month, then a very low rate.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

Christmas Island Phosphate mining had been the only significant economic activity, but in December 1987 the Australian government closed the mine.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The sixteen bodies on the central inclined planes, marked b , break away, their central globe, with its four contained globes, remaining unchanged.
— from Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by Annie Besant

Study at first hand of conditions in Pennsylvania mining regions and the Slav population.
— from Aliens or Americans? by Howard B. (Howard Benjamin) Grose

Should the edge of the knife not come easily through the cornea, its passage maybe assisted by pressure with the finger-nail.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

But when he took out his piccolo, and begun to breathe his griefs and sorrows into that, their mirth changed into pensive melancholy.
— from The Sauciest Boy in the Service: A Story of Pluck and Perseverance by Gordon Stables

Then, with a sigh of relief, he continued: “I pursued my way home like a drunken man.
— from Cleopatra — Complete by Georg Ebers