I see his finger pointing where the shell Should fall to slay most rabble, And save foul regicides; or strike the knell Of weaklings 'mid the tribunes' babble.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

[B12] for rope or similar things to get worn out from use.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In many of the estates, on the different islands where I used to be sent for rum or sugar, they would not deliver it to me, or any other negro; he was therefore obliged to send a white man along with me to those places; and then he used to pay him from six to ten pisterines a day.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

drisrihirsal n a final rehearsal of s.t. to be performed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We know men who have, by the dint of hard work and persistent grit, lifted themselves into positions of prominence, and yet they are not able to stand on their feet in public, even to make a few remarks, or scarcely to put a motion without trembling like an aspen leaf.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

55 , then draw out three or five threads more, turn the work round, and repeat the process, taking up the same clusters of threads which you took up in the first row of stitches, thus forming little perpendicular bars. Fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Who are you that would command me to stifle the flame that has illuminated my whole life, ever since it was penetrated by the first ray of sacred thought?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For a young people to be able to relish sound principles of political theory and follow the fundamental rules of statecraft, the effect would have to become the cause; the social spirit, which should be created by these institutions, would have to preside over their very foundation; and men would have to be before law what they should become by means of law.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In spite of this and similar military experiences 43 the employment of dehydrated vegetables was urged recently for rationing our soldiers, the claim being made that “by simply soaking in water and boiling in the same water these vegetables are brought back to the condition of fresh vegetables.”
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Virtually a society of Humanists, a Reuchlinist party, was formed in western Europe, the members of which silently worked for one another and for Reuchlin: "One supported the other, and said to his comrade, Be brave."
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

She looked bewitchingly charming, with the loose hair straying from under the crushed white silk handkerchief about her head; there was soft laughter in her eyes; her words were as bright as the first rays of sunrise that shone in through the windows, pouring a flood of gold upon such charming poverty.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

After all the years of toil without financial recompense, of struggling to accomplish her work with wholly insufficient means, of depending from month to month on the few dollars which could be gathered in, Miss Anthony's joy and gratitude scarcely could find expression in words.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Every person who shall give or offer any gratuity or tip to any person or employee prohibited from receiving or soliciting the same by the provisions of this section shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor.
— from The Itching Palm: A Study of the Habit of Tipping in America by William R. (William Rufus) Scott

There are those who prefer (perhaps for reasons of sentiment) the early Gothic, and many more who love far better the sweet purity of the early Renaissance.
— from The Tapestry Book by Helen Churchill Candee

Because he is slow in movement, folk are apt to conclude [360] that he is slow in wit; whereas the truth is that he has fine reserves of shrewdness to fall back on in emergency.
— from The Kindred of the Wild: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Witness the fearful revolts of society that have brought the issue to a test.
— from The Story of an Ostrich: An Allegory and Humorous Satire in Rhyme. by I. J. Potter

They were going at such a frightful rate of speed that they could hardly catch breath; they seemed to be falling down the side of the mountain, and every moment the speed of their fall increased.
— from The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1. No. 21, April 1, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various