But while they disdained not to derive a subsistence from labouring as husbandmen, they never abandoned their arms; and the Bhumia, amid the crags of the alpine Aravalli where he pastures his cattle or cultivates his fields, preserves the erect mien and proud spirit of his ancestors, with more tractability, and less arrogance and folly, than his more [169] courtly but now widely separated brethren, who often make a jest of his industrious but less refined qualifications.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

eorðrima m. a plant , Lcd 120a.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

They have come a mile and a half in about eleven minutes, a pace which shows that it is the last day.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Esta meseta es muy apropiada para la cría de ovejas.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It was drawn by six handsome horses, and by the side of the driver sat the “conductor,” the legitimate captain of the craft; for it was his business to take charge and care of the mails, baggage, express matter, and passengers.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

The Athenians also attempted to bring about some political change; but they were so alarmed at the very approach of Alexander, that they conceded to him even more ample public honours than those which had been bestowed upon Philip.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Could you but reach this height, you should not need 40 To make, each meale, a project ere you feed, Nor walke in reliques, clothes so old and bare, As if left off to you from Ennius were, Nor should your love, in verse, call Mistresse, those, Who are mine hostesse, or your whores in prose; 45 From this Muse learne to Court, whose power could move A Cloystred coldnesse, or a Vestall love, And would convey such errands to their eare, That Ladies knew no oddes to grant and heare;
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Every mature art possesses a host of conventions as a basis: in so far as it is a language.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

While he is doing this, he slays a dragon in Bœotia; and having sowed its teeth in the earth, men are produced, with whose assistance he builds the walls of Thebes.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

The aim of a composer is closely allied to the form of his work, to the aesthetic meaning of its every moment and phrase considered apart, and in relation to the composition as a whole.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

The lords of our day, grown wise by experience, make a point of keeping all such interlopers at a distance.
— from The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects throughout the World by William W. Sanger

The elder made a pained grimace.
— from Alien Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

Les fentes restent d'abord vides, et concourent an refroidissement des glaciers en favorisant l'introduction de l'air froid extérieur; mais an printemps, lorsque les rayons du soleil échaffent
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

15 Lop popler and sallow, elme, maple, and prie , well saued from cattle, till Sommer to lie.
— from Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser

Except Mary and Peter alone.
— from The Ethnology of the British Islands by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

It was certainly an unexpected pleasure to find an excellent museum, a public library, a Protestant cathedral, a large hospital, schools, and several benevolent institutions, as well as the fine garden referred to, in this capital of the Malay coast.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

Nearer the wheeling beams that spell The council of our foes.—— /poetry-container What those two lines in the poem express, and express well for a piece of wording, the picture might easily make a principal incident and a principal part of its subject—its artistical subject.
— from Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, October 1899 by Various

[Pg 424] much against political disability, as against the exclusive manners and practices of a ruling class far removed from themselves by language and mode and code, who ruffled their racial pride at every turn.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan

There can be no doubt that these earthen mounds and primitive carved stones of the American continent form in themselves a most interesting group of monuments, well deserving more attention than has yet been bestowed upon them, and that, when properly investigated, they will throw more light on the origin and migrations of the various aboriginal races of that country than can be expected from any other source.
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson