Laughing only with his eyes, he told anecdotes, made epigrams, asked ridiculous riddles and answered them himself, talking the whole time in his extraordinary language, evolved in the course of prolonged practice in witticism and evidently now become a habit: "Badsome," "Hugeous," "Thank you most dumbly," and so on.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

V. happen, occur; take place, take effect; come, become of; come off, comeabout[obs3], come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on; pass, present itself; fall; fall out, turn out; run, be on foot, fall in; befall, betide, bechance[obs3]; prove, eventuate, draw on; turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up; supervene, survene[obs3]; issue, arrive, ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course; pass off &c. (be past)
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The same relation is naturally to be found in all cases of parallel phenomena, i.e., names, symbols, definitions, etc.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Even before the traitors had flown, the vultures descended on it in swarms that darkened the ground, and tore the carrion of political patronage into fragments and gobbets of fat and lean, on the very steps of the White House.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

We have now to observe that, for similar reasons, even supposing we could adequately allow for, and so exclude, this source of error in our comparison of past pleasures, it is liable to intrude again in arguing from the past to the future.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

A Modest Proposal A MODEST PROPOSAL For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. by Dr. Jonathan Swift 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

4;) the cursus, or public post, (i. 29, ii. 31, iv. 47, v. 5, vi 6, vii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South, or vast appropriations.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

pina- prefix consisting of pa- plus -in- 2 . pína 1 v
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The first condition of permanent peace is to render those who were the great slaveholders when the war began, and who will be the great landholders after it is over, powerless for mischief.
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

Sergio e Bacco was built upon the top of this arch, but was removed in 1536 on the entry of Charles V. by command of Pope Paul III.
— from Old Rome: A Handbook to the Ruins of the City and the Campagna by Robert Burn

Amongst the first things that were found was the case of picrate, perfectly intact; having neither been injured by the water, nor of course reached by the flames.
— from The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passenger by Jules Verne

In our consideration of parallel prophecies in Daniel, we saw that the kingdom is represented in two phases—first as a stone , under which symbol it broke down the kingdoms of heathen darkness; and then as a mountain , when it is to fill the whole earth .
— from The Last Reformation by F. G. (Frederick George) Smith

As on the wall of some great artist's studio one may find unfinished sketches which he recognizes as the first growing conceptions of pictures painted in after years, so we see that Nature often sketches, as it were, a living portrait, which she leaves in its rudimentary condition, perhaps for the reason that earth has no colors which can worthily fill in an outline too perfect for humanity.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Their home was also close to the main centres of porcelain production in Kiangsi which was exported to overseas and to the urban centres.
— from A History of China by Wolfram Eberhard

The thick crowd of people pressed into the cabin in their front and rear, and all about them, and scrambled for seats.
— from Round the Block: An American Novel by John Bell Bouton

[300] Similar terra-cotta vases are also to be seen in the small collection of prehistoric pottery in the French school at Athens.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

The too exclusive preservation of fish is in a measure responsible for the destruction of water-fowl, which are cleared off preserved places in order that they may not help themselves to fry or spawn.
— from The Open Air by Richard Jefferies