LVIII CHAPTER LIX CHAPTER LX CHAPTER LXI CHAPTER LXII BOOK VII CHAPTER LXIII CHAPTER LXIV CHAPTER LXV CHAPTER LXVI CHAPTER LXVII CHAPTER LXVIII CHAPTER LXIX CHAPTER LXX CHAPTER LXXI BOOK VIII CHAPTER LXXII CHAPTER LXXIII CHAPTER LXXIV CHAPTER LXXV CHAPTER LXXVI
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

His petition being granted, he becomes by courtesy Lord Cecil Cilfowyr, until he succeeds in 1896, at the death of his brother, to the Dukedom of London.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

— N. improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility &c. 485.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Colonel L. C. Easton was chief-quartermaster; Colonel Amos Beckwith, chief-commissary; Colonel O. M. Poe, chief-engineer; and Colonel T. G. Baylor, chief of ordnance.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Cuando la campanilla
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Professor Cope states that the teeth of certain lizards change much in shape with advancing years.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The devotee thus avoids the slow, evolutionary monitors of egoistic actions, good and bad, of common life, cumbrous and snail-like to the eagle hearts.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Caitifte , sb. wretchedness, S2, W, W2, H; caytefte , S2.—OF. caitivete ; Lat. captiuitatem .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Créé dès 1996 autour de l'internet, CyLibris a voulu contourner les contraintes de l'édition traditionnelle grâce à deux innovations: la vente directe par l'intermédiaire d'un site de commerce sur internet, et le couplage de cette vente avec une impression numérique en "flux tendu".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

After the revolution of September 1870, hundreds of copies of more or less compromising letters, covert attacks on or criticisms of the Imperial Government, billets-doux also between Imperial princes and their mistresses, and so forth, were found at the Palace of the Tuilleries; and some of them were even published by a commission nominated by the Republican Government.
— from With Zola in England: A Story of Exile by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

the muscle of the thigh, Cath.; lere , C2; leer , the flank, HD.—AS. lira , ‘pulpa, viscum, caro’ (Voc.); cp. Icel. lær .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

He was preceded by a brass band, a number of boys carrying lighted candles and swinging incense urns, and followed by a long procession of men, women, and children.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

He is a smiling piece of vacancy, and he smiled in the mean way in which he will even smile at the public if he gets a chance (language can say no meaner of him), and he stood upright near the door with the back of his head agin the wall, as if he was a waiting for somebody to come and measure his heighth for the Army.
— from Mugby Junction by Charles Dickens

Although making her assertions with most startling positiveness, her choice language conveyed no offensive phrases.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It is seldom that a close, well contested, long continued hard battle is fought.
— from The Indian in his Wigwam; Or, Characteristics of the Red Race of America From Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII CHAPTER XLIX CHAPTER L CHAPTER LI CHAPTER LII CHAPTER LIII CHAPTER LIV CHAPTER LV CHAPTER LVI CHAPTER LVII CHAPTER LVIII CHAPTER LIX CHAPTER LX CHAPTER LXI CHAPTER LXII CHAPTER LXIII CHAPTER LXIV CHAPTER LXV CHAPTER LXVI CHAPTER LXVII CHAPTER LXVIII:
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

"Yes, certainly, Lady Clifford, I will go immediately," Esther heard herself saying in a collected tone, though the blood was singing in her ears.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell