Jno. 8.10, 11, et al.; to condemn, to place in a guilty light by contrast, Mat. 12.41, 42.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

We were not, [179] however, long permitted to enjoy the splendid picture here displayed before us, for very shortly after our entrance into the gulf large black clouds, gathering at the summit of the mountain, by degrees hid it entirely from view, the thunder growled, and a terrific wind arose, which hurried our boat along at an extraordinary rate.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

A cap very similar, but without the streamer, and with the point turned towards the left, is to be seen in a portrait of Geoffroy le Bel, Comte de Maine, in 1150.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

ANT: Great, large, big, considerable, bulky, extensive, ample, spacious, stout, strong, important, broad, liberal.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There was the honest cock robin, the favorite game of stripling sportsmen, with its loud querulous note; and the twittering blackbirds flying in sable clouds; and the golden-winged woodpecker with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feathers; and the blue jay, that noisy coxcomb, in his gay light blue coat and white underclothes, screaming and chattering, nodding and bobbing and bowing, and pretending to be on good terms with every songster of the grove.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The good Lucan, being condemned by that rascal Nero, at the last gasp of his life, when the greater part of his blood was already spent through the veins of his arms, which he had caused his physician to open to make him die, and when the cold had seized upon all his extremities, and began to approach his vital parts, the last thing he had in his memory was some of the verses of his Battle of Phaysalia, which he recited, dying with them in his mouth.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Notwithstanding the positive demand for perfection , and the positive and explicit declaration that he must have no maim or defect , the remainder of the sentence has, within a few years past, by some Grand Lodges, been considered as a qualifying clause, which would permit the admission of candidates whose physical defects did not exceed a particular point.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Ure , sb. fate, luck, good luck, B, CM.—OF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

I have a tolerably good library, but can find no work sufficiently descriptive of Breton's works to enable me to trace the above.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 134, May 22, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

His hair gleamed like burnished copper.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

After a death it is always "Bells were rung and mass was sung." "'A grave, a grave,' Lord Bernard cryd, 'To put these lovers in.'" "'A bed, a bed,' Clark Saunders cried, 'A bed for you and me.'" Motherwell, who wrote without Homer in his mind, seems to state the case of the ballads very clearly.
— from The World of Homer by Andrew Lang

[320] This is Long’s account of the orders given by Beresford (p. 75 of the Vindication of the Military Reputation of the late General Long , by C. E. Long), in a letter from the general to General Le Marchant.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 4, Dec. 1810-Dec. 1811 Massena's Retreat, Fuentes de Oñoro, Albuera, Tarragona by Charles Oman

Toward the Gulf TOWARD THE GULF By Edgar Lee Masters CONTENTS TO WILLIAM MARION REEDY TOWARD THE GULF LAKE BOATS CITIES OF THE PLAIN EXCLUDED MIDDLE SAMUEL BUTLER ET AL.
— from Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters

Further, in the roll of knights named in Erec , following such well-known names as Gawain, Erec, Lancelot, Gornemanz, le Biaus Coarz (Bel Couart), Le lez Hardis (le Laid Hardi), and Melianz de Liz, we have Mauduiz li Sages , who, as I have elsewhere pointed out ( Lancelot , p. 80), can hardly be other than the enchanter of the Lanzelet , Malduz der Wîse.
— from The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot' by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

“We have taught him that one gains little by chasing the Sin Verguenza at night, and the men have marched a long way.
— from The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

Below him, generously looped, Bear Creek tumbled out of the southeast, and roved between noble borders of silver spruce into the shadows of the Blue Mountains of the north, half a dozen miles across and ten long of grazing and farm land, rich, loamy bottom land scattered with aspens.
— from Black Jack by Max Brand