The Metamorphoses of Ovid are a compendium of the Mythological narratives of ancient Greece and Rome, so ingeniously framed, as to embrace a large amount of information upon almost every subject connected with the learning, traditions, manners, and customs of antiquity, and have afforded a fertile field of investigation to the learned of the civilized world.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Richard, begging me, for the greater grace of the transaction, as he said, to settle with Coavinses (as Mr. Skimpole now jocularly called him), I counted out the money and received the necessary acknowledgment.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Canonisen , v. to admit into the canon of the Mass, to canonize, MD; to consecrate, admit to the dignity of the papacy, MD.—Late Lat. canonizare .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Such a divine intelligence would see instantaneously all the infinite lines of convergence towards a given result, and it would, moreover, see impartially: it would see the fatal feast to be as much a condition of the sparrow's death as of the man's; it would see the boy with the stone to be as much a condition of the man's fall as of the sparrow's.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The bartender moved grimly toward the crowd of two men.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Now the gymnasia and common meals do a great deal of good, and yet they are a source of evil in civil troubles; as is shown in the case of the Milesian, and Boeotian, and Thurian youth, among whom these institutions seem always to have had a tendency to degrade the ancient and natural custom of love below the level, not only of man, but of the beasts.
— from Laws by Plato

2. Classification of the Materials The selections on social control have been classified under three heads: ( a ) elementary forms of social control, ( b ) public opinion, and ( c ) institutions.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But in Woodlife's Case, in reply to what the Chief Justice had said, Gawdy cited the case of the Marshal of the King's Bench, /2/ stated above, whereupon Popham fell back on the old distinction that the jailer had a remedy over against the rebels, but that there was no remedy over in the case at bar.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

She could only tell me that it was 'just the news,'—meaning, I suppose, that they all talked as usual about each other.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"We were talking of improving the condition of the miners by organization.
— from The Iron Boys as Foremen; or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears

Cut off the meat from the skeletons of your roast chickens.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

The novelty of the appearance of a stranger within the circle of those mountains, which no vulgar mortal had yet penetrated, the dignity of his appearance, and the boldness of his manner, at first distracted the attendants from the performance of that, which might have seemed most natural in their situation, and awed them into passiveness.
— from Imogen: A Pastoral Romance by William Godwin

Seeing which course of things, Messeigneurs of the Court Triumvirate, Messieurs of the dead-born Broglie-Ministry, and others such, consider that their part also is clear: to mount and ride.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

A second cousin of the meat chef has drifted in meanwhile, been set to work at Popover's old tables, and the result is that when Mike reports to claim his job he gets the cold, heartless chuck.
— from On With Torchy by Sewell Ford

The parishes contiguous on the moor have what are termed Venville rights, that is to say, rights to cut turf and to free pasturage on the moor; the tenants in Venville may be said to have the right to take anything off the moor that may do them good except green oak and venison, or more properly, vert
— from Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The fact is that to prove the minor to be a case of the middle term may be an exceedingly difficult operation ( chap.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

At the upper end of a large saloon was placed the sereer (or couch) of the monarch,
— from Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights by Edward William Lane

I'm quite sure it was a bird—Nor the payment on the first of the ensuing month of some eighty per cent of the amounts due the ORIGinal depositors and another twenty per cent in one year thereafter—The cancelling of the mortgage which your most BEnevolent and HONorable father bought, and the sly trick of Gorsuch—letting Fogbin, who never turned up, become the sham tenant—and the joy—” “Hold on Mr. Gadgem—I'm not good at figures.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

It was unlawful for a white man to do any trading whatsoever with a slave on the Sabbath, without the consent of the master in writing first being had by the slave, and with a free negro it was unlawful on that day under any circumstances,—our early fathers seemingly being at all times possessed of a very high regard for the general efficacy and saving grace of a written permission from the master.
— from Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899 by Mississippi Historical Society