— N. horizontality[obs3]; flatness; level, plane; stratum &c. 204; dead level, dead flat; level plane.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

La nature a donné deux garants de la chastité des femmes, la pudeur et les remords; la confession les prive de l'un, et l'absolution de l'autre —Nature has given two safeguards for female chastity, modesty and remorse, but confession deprives them of the one and absolution of the other.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The moon in [5308] Lucian made her moan to Venus, that she was almost dead for love, pereo equidem amore , and after a long tale, she broke off abruptly and wept,
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Amongst the various sorts of offences which may be committed in ignorance or out of negligence by heaven's increasing people, who shall come into being in the country, which the Sovran GRANDCHILD'S augustness, hiding in the fresh RESIDENCE, built by stoutly planting the HOUSE-pillars on the bottom-most rocks, and exalting the cross-beams to the plain of high heaven, as his SHADE from the heavens and SHADE from the sun, shall tranquilly ruin as a peaceful country, namely, the country of great Yamato, where the sun is soon on high, which he fixed upon as a peaceful country, as the centre of the countries of the four quarters thus bestowed upon him—breaking the ridges, filling up water-courses, opening sluices, double-sowing, planting stakes, flaying alive, flaying backwards, and dunging; many of such offences are distinguished as heavenly offences, and as earthly offences; cutting living flesh, cutting dead flesh, leprosy, proud-flesh, ... calamities of crawling worms, calamities of a god on high, calamities of birds on high, the offences of killing beasts and using incantations; many of such offences may be disclosed.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Slightly got a dozen for looking perplexed when told to take soundings.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

14 I loved, and love dispell'd the fear That I should die an early death: For love possess'd the atmosphere, And filled the breast with purer breath.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Aldone ( in addition ), estos via devo forpafi la pomon per la unua sago, alie ( otherwise ) mi punos vin kaj vian filon per tuja morto."
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Non seulement, ils sont aux mains d'on ne sait trop qui, voir plus haut, mais en plus, intrinsèquement, ils ont le pouvoir culturel de fausser la pensée.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

1 sq.; distance from Laodicea, p. 376 ; site, p. 13 ; ancient greatness and decline, p. 15 ; a Phrygian city, p. 18 sq.; Jewish colony at, p. 19 ; not visited by St Paul when the epistle was written, p. 23 ; Epaphras the evangelist of, p. 29 ; intended visit of Mark to, p. 40 ; visit of St Paul to, p. 41 ; obscurity of, p. 70 ; a suffragan see of Laodicea, p. 69 ; the Turkish conquest of, p.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Nor yet, alas, the dreadful work is done; Fresh legions pour adown the Pyrenees: It deepens still, the work is scarce begun, Nor mortal eye the distant end foresees.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Oh! it is very pleasant, when two old and dear friends, long parted, are reunited, to talk over old times and scenes, and let butterfly memory flit from flower to flower in the past; but doubly sweet when the recollections are those of happy childhood, without a stain upon their white garments which regret might vainly wish to clear away.
— from The Forgery; or, Best Intentions. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Ariosto was also a more or less successful humanist in certain of his minor works, as we have said, but in the Furioso, although he took many schemes and details from Latin poets, he [Pg 38] stands essentially outside their line of inspiration, for instead of directing his spirit towards the past, he always draws the past towards his spirit, and there is no observable trace in it of Latin-Augustan archaism, or of the archaism of medieval chivalry.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

Accordingly, Major Mitchell received instructions to take charge of the party, and on the 21St of November, 1831, took his departure from Liverpool Plains.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

The society has established a department for legal protection, and an employment agency; it has published an inquiry into the living conditions in the capital.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

That it is far from being so is proved by the use long made of this dialect for lyric poetry and for tales both racy and pathetic.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

Now Beer, of different Strength, making the greater Part of our most common Drink, it may be proper to observe here, that when it is not strong and heady, but a middling well-brewed Small-beer, neither too new, nor hard or sour, it is full as wholesome a Drink for laborious People in Health as any other, and perhaps generally preferable to Water for such; which may be too thin and light for those who are unaccustomed to it; and more dangerous too, when the labouring Man is very hot, as well as thirsty.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Two of my neighbours, unmistakable Imperialists, and old soldiers by their looks, stared very hard at them; then one said, "Si le petit au lieu de filer le parfait amour partout, avait mis tous ses œufs dans le même panier, il aurait eu des grands comme cela et nous ne serions pas dans l'impasse où nous sommes."
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam