In the thickness there should be set a very close succession of ties made of charred olive wood, binding the two faces of the wall together like pins, to give it lasting endurance.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio
and Elizabeth, and gaining in length every day.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain
Avoir la main -- e , être gauche, inepte. lourdaud, e , personne lente et maladroite ou qui manque de finesse.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann
The command to promote the summum bonum is established on an objective basis (in practical reason); the possibility of the same in general is likewise established on an objective basis (in theoretical reason, which has nothing to say against it).
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
Besides, a native government is less easily absolute.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
The Garland in Little East Cheape, sometime a brewhouse, with a garden on the back side, adjoining to the garden of Sir John Philpot, was the chief house in this East Cheape; it is now divided into sundry small tenements, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow
Yet I know that on that day I entered the gate through which there is no returning: for, believe me, there are such ways and gates in life; every day, I see more clearly how far and how immovably the paths into those other worlds abut into this, and I know that I, for one, have gone in, and the door is closed behind me.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
The fringe of the subject has scarcely been reached, and the state of affairs which the man of letters portrayed to the shame of our grandfathers is likely enough, it would seem, to be “copy” for our grandchildren and their grandchildren to journalise with world without end Amen!
— from The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott, Sir
Young gentleman, in Lady Ellinor Trevanion think that you see one whom you ought to know well; family friendships should descend."
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
‘“‘“As with a steady glance I long examined his sad state, I became despondent, and thought in my trembling heart: ‘This is of a truth that Love whose force none can resist; for by him Puṇḍarīka has been in a moment brought to a state for which there is no cure.
— from The Kādambarī of Bāṇa by Bāṇa
Dr. Ray Palmer's paraphrase of it in sixes-and-fours, to fit “Olivet,”— Come, Holy Ghost in love, etc. —is objectionable both because the word Ghost is an archaism in Christian worship and more especially because Dr. Palmer's altered version usurps the place of his own hymn.
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth
There was no need ever to go into long explanations about this or that; a glance sufficed, or a word, to show each what the other enjoyed; and both had the quiet conviction that they were enjoying it together.
— from The Laurel Bush: An Old-Fashioned Love Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Sandford going into Lord Elmwood's library soon after his relation had left him, expressed his surprise at finding he was gone; upon which that nobleman having answered a few questions, and given a few significant hints that he was entrusted with a secret, frankly confessed, what he had promised to conceal.
— from A Simple Story by Mrs. Inchbald
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