On the same day, in some parts of the Eifel, a great wheel was made of straw and dragged by three horses to the top of the hill.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

high life, haute monde[Fr]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U. S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c. (fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling[obs3]; grandee, magnifico[Lat], hidalgo; daimio[obs3], daimyo, samurai, shizoku [all Japanese]; don, donship[obs3]; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw[obs3]; gentleman, squire, squireen[obs3], patrician, laureate.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He expressed a great deal of sympathy, and a wish to aid me.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

In fact, we have so many instances of the possibility of reciprocally transferring the finest qualities of English and German poetry, that there is no sufficient excuse for an unmetrical translation of Faust .
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The rent and profit of those productions, therefore, which require either a greater original expense of improvement in order to fit the land for them, or a greater annual expense of cultivation, though often much superior to those of corn and pasture, yet when they do no more than compensate such extraordinary expense, are in reality regulated by the rent and profit of those common crops.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

“And yet,” said Egremont, “a great family rooted in the land, has been deemed to be an element of political strength.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

anda sin cesar, llevando el cargamento en las espaldas, a guisa de caracol.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When he was at Venice he had fallen in love with a pretty woman, either a Greek or a Neapolitan.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

King Philip mustered up a rabble of the most wicked and incorrigible rascals he could pick out, and put them all together into a city he had caused to be built for that purpose, which bore their name: I believe that they, even from vices themselves, erected a government amongst them, and a commodious and just society.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

The different members, however, of the family present, as Schiodte remarks, "a long series of forms exhibiting a gradual transition from Hippoglossus pinguis, which does not in any considerable degree alter the shape in which it leaves the ovum, to the soles, which are entirely thrown to one side.
— 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

And now she was beginning to rejoice, but on a sudden her eye caught far to east a glimpse of something in motion across an even slope of the lower hills leaning to the valley; and it was a herd that rushed forward, like a black torrent of the mountains flinging foam this way and that, and after the herd and at the sides of the herd she distinguished the white cloaks and scarfs and glittering steel of the Arabs of Ruark.
— from The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Volume 1 by George Meredith

Hence ensued a great mass of petty outrages, unjustifiable assaults, shameful indignities, and nameless cruelty, demoralizing alike to the perpetrators and the sufferers; these enormities fell into the ocean between the two countries, and could be punished in neither.
— from Our Old Home: A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dobbin, Warrington, Colonel Newcome, Ethel Newcome, Henry Esmond are generous, brave, just, and true.
— from Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison

[Greek] seems to mean 'upon the earth,' 'above ground,' as opposed to the dead who are below, rather than 'bound to the soil,' in which sense most commentators take it.}
— from The Odyssey of Homer, Done into English Prose by Homer

ell a great number of different enzyma which are all co-ordinated, and each of which only performs its little special work, the biogen hypothesis deduces all the vital phenomena from one compound, the biogenetic plasm; and thus the biogen molecules, which increase by division into parts, [47] are the sole factors of biological catalysis.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

Nihilism now appears, not because the sorrows of existence are greater than they were formerly, but because, in a general way, people have grown suspicious of the "meaning" which might be given to evil and even to existence.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Thus he accompanied each outward mark of devoted tenderness towards his supposed parent, by aiming a severe kick against the Schoolmaster's legs, on one of which there was (in common with many who had long worked in the galleys) a deep and severe wound, the effect of the heavy iron chain worn during the term of punishment around the right leg; and, by way of compelling the miserable sufferer to exercise a greater degree of stoical courage, the urchin always seized the moment when the object of his malice was either drinking or speaking.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

Dr. Eales and Mrs. Lightfoot would come out the night before, he not returning after his lesson to the Rivetts, and she making some excuse about going to see friends for the Sunday.
— from Under the Storm by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It would seem that Leaplow was on the eve of experiencing a great moral eclipse.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper