SYN: Hold, include, comprise, embrace, comprehend, inclose.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

In short it is a large village made up of individual cottages, each cottage in the centre of its own little wood or orchard, and each with its own separate path: a village with a labyrinth of paths, or rather a neighbourhood of houses!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A predilection for one or the other explanation has lain at the bottom of much ethnological discussion in the past; and at present influential schools both in England and in continental Europe clamorously insist that all cultural parallels are due to diffusion from a single center.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If I see a billiard-ball moving towards another, on a smooth table, I can easily conceive it to stop upon contact.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

I cook every chance in MY pot.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Sed Pompêius dê fortûnîs suîs dêspêrâns sê in castra equô contulit, inde mox cum paucîs equitibus effûgit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Sed Pompēius dē fortūnīs suīs dēspērāns sē in castra equō contulit, inde mox cum paucīs equitibus effūgit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

{29} Again, at St. Ives in Cornwall every child is given a big apple on Allhallows’ Eve—“Allan Day” as it is called. {30} Nuts and apples were also used as means of forecasting the future.
— from Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Clement A. Miles

Bringing the preceding tentative study of the ancient civilization of Babylonia-Assyria to a close, I venture to affirm that, imperfect as it is, it clearly establishes certain important points connected with the present investigation.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall

As the difference of value cannot be appreciated at a distance, a man is considered elegantly clad in this fur even when the real value is very little.
— from From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin by Victor Meignan

In China every city is nearly the same: a quadrangular space of ground is enclosed with walls of stone, of brick, or of earth, all built upon the same plan; the houses within them of the same construction; and the streets, except the principal ones that run from gate to gate, invariably narrow.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

I can easily change it."
— from A Colony of Girls by Kate Livingston Willard

It will be many weeks, possibly several months, before I can entirely conquer it.
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

What is it you are talking about, Jessy?” “About a very valuable book, ma’am; containing more than I can easily count, in bank-notes, ma’am, that Mr. Folingsby has lent, only lent, ma’am, she says, to Miss Fanny Frankland, ma’am, who was just going to return them to him, ma’am, when I unluckily took up the book, and shook them all out upon the floor, ma’am.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth