It is the relation of the different parts to this chord, this impression of the personality of a head, that is the all-important thing in what is popularly called "catching the likeness."
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

I came from Fecamp, following the coast, a high coast as straight as a wall, with its projecting chalk cliffs descending perpendicularly into the sea.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

3. Sanguis amasiae, ebibitus omnem amoris sensum tollit: Faustinam Marci Aurelii uxorem, gladiatoris amore captam, ita penitus consilio Chaldaeorum liberatam, refert Julius Capitolinus .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I much regret that I did not then begin to collect, when the blocks were comparatively fresh; a complete set of Hokusai's Mangwa, in perfect condition, could be had for a couple of dollars, and his Hundred Views of Fuji for about a couple of shillings.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

A. South-East Quarter, Inner Portion. &c. &c. pg042
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Where, when a triumph was refused by a large majority of the patricians, Lucius Icilius, tribune of the commons, proposed to the people regarding the triumph of the consuls, many persons coming forward to argue against the measure, but in particular Caius Claudius, exclaiming, "That it was over the senate, not over the enemy, the consuls wished to triumph; and that it was intended as a return for a private service to a tribune, and not as an honour due to valour.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

But as this chapter is already long, and as the question of genius had better wait till Chapter XXII, where its practical consequences can be discussed at the same time, I will say nothing more at present either about it or about the faculty of noting resemblances.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Adj. clean, cleanly; pure; immaculate; spotless, stainless, taintless; trig; without a stain, unstained, unspotted, unsoiled, unsullied, untainted, uninfected; sweet, sweet as a nut. neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned &c. v.; kempt[obs3]. abstergent[obs3], cathartic, cleansing, purifying.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

With this party, indeed, peace continued, contrary to expectation; another war broke out much nearer home, and almost at the very gates.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Ingeniis patuit campus, certusque merenti / Stat favor: ornatur propriis industria donis —The field is open to talent and merit is sure of its reward.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Her art, however, to judge it by its past career, can be expected to move in the direction of firmer structure and clearer outline.
— from Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) by Carl Van Doren

“All who are like you, though in you, Virginsky, I have not observed that narrow-mindedness I found in Petersburg, chez ces séminaristes .
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[14] Roll of 7 Edward I.: "Placita Corone coram Johanne de Reygate et sociis suis, justiciariis itinerantibus in Oct. St. Hil.
— from Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes

When the herbal proper ceased and the first books on botany began to make their appearance the old herb lore did not fall into disuse, and the popularity of the still-room books in which it was preserved may be gathered from the fact that one of the first of these to be printed— A Choice Manual of rare and select Secrets in Physick & Chirurgerie Collected and practised by the Countesse of Kent
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

In our study of machines we omitted a factor which in practical cases cannot be ignored, namely, friction.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

Amongst these monopolies were those for the exclusive sale of salt, currants, iron, powder, cards, calf-skins, felts, poledavy (a kind of canvas), ox shin-bones, train-oil, lifts of cloth, potash, anise-seed, vinegar, sea-coal, steel, aqua-vitæ, brushes, pots, bottles, saltpetre, lead, accidences (or books of the rudiments of Latin grammar), oil, calamine stone, oil of blubber, glasses, paper, starch, tin, sulphur, new drapery, dried pilchards; the exportation of iron, ham, beer, and leather; the importation of Spanish wool and Irish linen; such an astonishing list, in fact, that when it was read over in the Commons in 1601, but two years before her death, a member in amazement asked, as already stated, whether bread was not of the number.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

[1296] ‘El rey Felipe III., hombre de rudo ingenio, se dejaba gobernar con facilidad por aquellos que sabiendo los temores de su conciencia, se aprovechaban de su imbecilidad para conseguir cuanto querian.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

Therefore if the instructed or intellectually privileged class cheerfully leave the field open to men who, ex hypothesi , are presumed to be less instructed, narrower, more impenetrable by reason, and the partisans of the letter against the spirit, then this result follows.
— from On Compromise by John Morley

ber Basic Car- bonate White Lead Zinc Oxide Basic Sul- phate White Lead Preci- pitated White Lead Zinc Lead Litho- pone INERT PIGMENT Cal- cium Car- bonate Silica Asbes- tine
— from Paint Technology and Tests by Henry A. (Henry Alfred) Gardner