And of the existence of this last the following consideration is a proof: there are many vices by practising which a man acts unjustly, of course, but does not grasp at more than his share of good; if, for instance, by reason of cowardice he throws away his shield, or by reason of ill-temper he uses abusive language, or by reason of stinginess does not give a friend pecuniary assistance; but whenever he does a grasping action, it is often in the way of none of these vices, certainly not in all of them, still in the way of some vice or other (for we blame him), and in the way of Injustice.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

On the sixth day, the girl is formally installed in the middle room of the house.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

HOW THE WORLD WAS MADE The earth is a great island floating in a sea of water, and suspended at each of the four cardinal points by a cord hanging down from the sky vault, which is of solid rock.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

SYN: Interlard, interweave, import, garble, gloss, intersperse, furbish, introduce.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“The gharu is found in pockets, and may sometimes be discovered by the veins which run to these pockets.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The two extremities of this gigantic parallelogram were occupied, the one by the famous marble table, so long, so broad, and so thick that, as the ancient land rolls—in a style that would have given Gargantua an appetite—say, “such a slice of marble as was never beheld in the world”; the other by the chapel where Louis XI. had himself sculptured on his knees before the Virgin, and whither he caused to be brought, without heeding the two gaps thus made in the row of royal statues, the statues of Charlemagne and of Saint Louis, two saints whom he supposed to be great in favor in heaven, as kings of France.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It is given internally for its astringent effect in chronic diarrhœa, leucorrhœa, blenorrhœa and hemorrhages.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

And here it is to be noted that I do not deny absolutely there are general ideas, but only that there are any ABSTRACT general ideas; for, in the passages we have quoted wherein there is mention of general ideas,
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

And, for my name of George begins with G, It follows in his thought that I am he.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A pretty joke, indeed, if, for fear of a haughty girl, I failed in doing a kindness to a man I liked!
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

[ 1038 ] tubug n k.o. medium-sized tree having small, round, green, inedible fruits in bunches growing directly from the trunk and branches: Ficus sp .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“We shall be very grateful indeed for it.
— from The Mutable Many: A Novel by Robert Barr

Not long after, however, the lady, the Saracen's Head, died herself; but I fear not of starvation; for, though something like it did prevail at her table, she prudently reserved it all for her guests; in fact, I never heard of such vigilant care, and so much laudable exertion, applied to the promotion of health: yet all failed, and, in a degree which confounded people's speculations upon the subject—for she did not live much beyond sixty; whereas everybody supposed that the management of her physical system entitled her to outwear a century.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

order gets itself fixed in habit and custom and is then transmitted as part of the established social order to succeeding generations.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And they do say as 'e's got 'is fingers in several pies and is a reg'lar old conspirator, working up the Irish to do something against England.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

Of course, we go in for it in a general way, and learn the rules of grammar and punctuation, and so forth, but Mrs Willis says that school-girls’ themes are so bad and affected, as a rule, and she says she does not think anyone will go in for her pet prize who has not natural ability.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

It dawned upon me ten minutes later, when thinking the matter over in the train, that though I had agreed with the porter that it would be best for the bicycle to go by way of Immendingen, and had agreed to his booking it to Immendingen, I had neglected to give instructions for its departure from Immendingen.
— from Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

The common Volvox globator is found in the ponds in the spring—a small, green, gelatinous globule, swimming about by means of the stroke of its lashes, which rise in pairs from the cells on its surface.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

"Wall," sez I, "you hadn't ort to got it fixed in that shape.
— from Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 by Marietta Holley