As to those who seek for an astronomical interpretation of the legend, in which the annual changes of the sun are symbolized, while the ingenuity with which they press their argument cannot but be admired, it is evident that, by such an interpretation, they yield all that Masonry has gained of religious development in past ages, and fall back upon that corruption and perversion of Sabaism from which it was the object, even of the Spurious Freemasonry of antiquity, to rescue its disciples.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

ιῶ, pr. to form a level and firm surface; to level with the ground, overthrow, raze, destroy, Lu. 19.44: from Ἔδαφος, εος, τό, pr. a bottom, base, hence, the ground, Ac. 22.7.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

“I abruptly disbanded my soldiers, who darted into the vineyard and found Timbuctoo on hands and knees travelling around among the vines and eating grapes, or rather devouring them as a dog eats his sop, snatching them in mouthfuls from the vine with his teeth.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Generally, it was a brief Greek or Roman device, such as the Middle Ages knew so well how to formulate.—
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The convocation of provincial synods was prohibited in his dominions; his Christian officers were ignominiously dismissed; and if he avoided the guilt, or rather danger, of a general persecution, his partial oppressions were rendered still more odious by the violation of a solemn and voluntary engagement.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

[ 89 ] 1 Rakshasas and Rakshasis (male and female) are in Hindu mythology huge giants and giantesses, or rather demons.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

It was distracting to Jude, and his heart would have ached less had she appeared anyhow but as she did appear; essentially large-minded and generous on reflection, despite a previous exercise of those narrow womanly humours on impulse that were necessary to give her sex.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

[294] Plutus : The god of riches; degraded here into a demon.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Strangely enough, the decision of the question as to whether this were a ghost or Rogojin did not, for some reason or other, interest me nearly so much as it ought to have done;—I think I began to muse about something altogether different.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

he says, raising his arm in a gesture of reassurance, “don’t waste the wine in that ridikelous fashion.
— from The Death Shot: A Story Retold by Mayne Reid

339 109 Flint Arrow-head, Laugerie Haute 340 110 Bone needle, La Madelaine 340 111, 112 Harpoons of Antler, La Madelaine 342 113, 114 Arrow-heads, Gorge d’Enfer 342 115 Bone Awl, Gorge d’Enfer 342 116 Carved Handle of Reindeer Antler 343 117 Two sides of Reindeer Antler, La Madelaine 344 118 Horses engraved on Antler, La Madelaine 344 119 Group of Reindeer, Dordogne 345
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

As for the part he had taken against them in the late war, no shadow of a grudge or resentment did they bear against him for it; on the contrary, they looked upon him with enhanced respect on the strength of it; even as he himself had predicted to Lalanté would be the case.
— from A Secret of the Lebombo by Bertram Mitford

Translated from the German of Rev. Dr. John Emmanuel Veith, formerly Preacher of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various

The petty States had been allowed to retain their own laws and customs, and, so far as possible, their own peculiar governmental systems; but all officials were responsible to the Governor of Romagna, Don Remiro de Lorca, an overbearing martinet, feared and hated by every one.
— from Caesar Borgia: A Study of the Renaissance by John Leslie Garner

“To the city gate only,” replied D’Artagnan, “after which I will tell you what I told the king: ‘I am on duty.’
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

At the eastern end is a deep, dark gorge, or ravine, down which tumbles a brook in a succession of small cascades.
— from Wild Wales: The People, Language, & Scenery by George Borrow

The decline in favour of the maze amongst gardeners of repute during the latter part of the eighteenth century 143 is possibly to be accounted for in great part as the natural revulsion from the surfeit of elaborate designs produced in the preceding periods.
— from Mazes and Labyrinths: A General Account of Their History and Development by W. H. Matthews

With this arrangement of the lamps all reflections are avoided, and neither the grain of rough drawing paper, the relief of an engraving, nor the edges of pieces stuck on are felt.
— from Photo-Lithography by Georg Fritz