Pillow lace and the necessary articles for its manufacture .—Pillow lace derives its name from the cushion or pillow on which all bobbin lace is made, which distinguishes it from point lace, so-called because it consists of «points» or stitches made with a needle and thread.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont
Which summed up his opinion; for pleasures, like schoolboys in a school courtyard, had so trampled upon his heart that no green thing grew there, and that which passed through it, more heedless than children, did not even, like them, leave a name carved upon the wall.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
“I am made for public life,” said the Rocket, “and so are all my relations, even the humblest of them.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
But the poets are also the representatives of falsehood and feigning in all departments of life and knowledge, like the sophists and rhetoricians of the Gorgias and Phaedrus; they are the false priests, false prophets, lying spirits, enchanters of the world.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
We took also a large number of gilt-heads, about one and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying pyrapeds like submarine swallows, which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their phosphorescent light.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
wyncondel f. pleasant light, sun , Gu 1186.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
Perhaps for pretty Leonora's sake I did, after all, take up and open the vast cylindrical roll of MS.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock
Acid fruits, particularly lemons, seem to be peculiarly unwholesome;
— from Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris
An innumerable crowd, of mingled sexes and ages, had poured into this Temple; the Franks granted some of them a few moments of life, so that they might remove from the Temple the bodies of the fallen, of whom a foul pile lay scattered here and there.
— from The Deeds of God Through the Franks by Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy Guibert
Riches in the Hands of Individuals in Society, is attended with some degree of Power; and so far as Power is put forth separate from pure Love, so far the Government of the Prince of Peace is interrupted; and as we know not that our Children after us will dwell in that State in which Power is rightly applied, to lay up Riches for them appears to be against the Nature of his Government.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman