These bones are three in number, the uppermost is the smallest.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise
But, Dauncing is meete for feastes & weddings: it is not to use in the stretes.
— from A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & Behaviours by Giovanni Della Casa
In Northumberland the uniformity in the size of the holdings of the tenants is much more marked than the variety.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney
first, because without it something is impossible, and it is altogether wrong to give alms out of what is necessary to us in this sense; for instance, if a man found himself in the presence of a case of urgency, and had merely sufficient to support himself and his children, or others under his charge, he would be throwing away his life and that of others if he were to give away in alms, what was then necessary to him.
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
The patentee may also sell licenses under his patent; that is, in consideration of a certain sum, the patentee licenses a manufacturer to make the invention at his own place of business; it being a personal privilege p. 63 and is not transferable unless its terms so state.
— from Practical Pointers for Patentees by Franklin Allison Cresee
A license is not transferable unless its terms so state.
— from Practical Pointers for Patentees by Franklin Allison Cresee
All his money is now tied up in the Springs and the PL herd that he bought from Paddy!"
— from The Long Dim Trail by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker
A hundred feet he climbed steeply; but even then, with the panic of immediate peril gone, he kept on climbing in narrow turns up into the sunlight again.
— from Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable
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