ck disappointed; for the height is not above three thousand feet, reckoning from the ground to the highest pinnacle top; which, allowing for the difference between the size of those people and us in Europe, is no great matter for admiration, nor at all equal in proportion (if I rightly remember) to Salisbury steeple.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

" " restoration from Innovations cannot be made in the body of Masonry Insanity, if perfectly cured, no disqualification of a candidate Installation " whence the term derived " necessary to legal existence of an officer " of a Master of a lodge " of the Grand Master Instruction of representatives, right of, is vested in a lodge Investigation of character must be by a committee Irreligious libertine cannot be a Mason " " definition of the term J. Judicial powers of a Grand Lodge, Junior Grand Warden Junior Warden, " " presides in absence of Master and Senior Warden, " " does not take the West in absence of Senior Warden, " " presides over the craft during refreshment " " appoints the stewards Jurisdiction of a lodge " geographical or personal " is over all its members " " " unaffiliated Masons in its vicinity " cannot extend beyond State lines, " none over its Master K. Knowledge of reading and writing necessary to a Mason L. Labor, calling from, to refreshment Landmarks, what they are, " ritual and legislative " must be observed by the Grand Lodge Law of Grand Lodges " subordinate lodges " individuals Lawful information, what it is Laws, how to be interpreted " of Masonry are of two kinds—written and unwritten " written, whence derived " unwritten, whence derived " " same as ancient usage Legislative powers of a Grand Lodge Libertine, irreligious, cannot be a Mason meaning of the term Lodge, subordinate definition of how organized must have been congregated by some superior authority Lodge, under dispensation definition of generally precedes a warranted lodge how formed cannot make by-laws cannot elect officers cannot install officers cannot elect members Lodge, warranted its powers and rights must be consecrated must be dedicated must be constituted its officers must be installed ceremony of installation in its powers are inherent in it its reserved rights are secured by the regulations an assembly of the craft in their primary capacity may select its own members elects its own officers what officers of, are elected in England may install its officers Master of, must be installed by a past Master may be represented in the Grand Lodge representatives of may instruct its representatives may frame by-laws may suspend or exclude a member may declare a member expelled, the sentence to be approved by the Grand Lodge may levy annual contributions may select its name cannot select its number duties of cannot alter the ritual must elect officers at a particular time Lodge, warranted, cannot interfere with business of another lodge " " cannot initiate without previous notice " " cannot confer more than two degrees on the same candidate at one time " " cannot make more than five new Brothers at the same time " " must meet once a month " " neglecting to meet forfeits its warrant " " cannot remove from the town, without the consent of the Grand Lodge " " may remove
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

“Your Eminence is right,” replied Milady; “and I have been wrong in seeing in the mission with which you honor me anything but that which it really is--that is, to announce to his Grace, on the part of your Eminence, that you are acquainted with the different disguises by means of which he succeeded in approaching the queen during the fete given by Madame the Constable; that you have proofs of the interview granted at the Louvre by the queen to a certain Italian astrologer who was no other than the Duke of Buckingham; that you have ordered a little romance of a satirical nature to be written upon the adventures of Amiens, with a plan of the gardens in which those adventures took place, and portraits of the actors who figured in them; that Montague is in the Bastille, and that the torture may make him say things he remembers, and even things he has forgotten; that you possess a certain letter from Madame de Chevreuse, found in his Grace’s lodging, which singularly compromises not only her who wrote it, but her in whose name it was written.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Atkinson's book is refreshing reading after the expurgation and sublimation of the same theme in Sir Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

Sir Leicester's gallantry concedes the point, though he still feels that to bring this sort of squalor among the upper classes is really— really— "I was about to say," resumes the lawyer with undisturbed calmness, "that whether he had died by his own hand or not, it was beyond my power to tell you.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

344 True law is right reason conformable to nature, 438 universal, unchangeable, eternal, whose commands urge us to duty, and whose prohibitions restrain us from evil.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The gentleman in raccoon rummaged in a fluster.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[876-901] of Ilian race raise his Latin forefathers' hope so high; nor shall the land of Romulus ever boast of any fosterling like this.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

A fire hydrant was placed within seven hundred feet of every house, with the insurance rates reduced from twelve and one-half to thirty per cent; the services of three fire-engine companies was arranged for.
— from A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After by Edward William Bok

That's your name, if I recollect right.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

our train had been divided and our car, left the last of what remained, had bumped and threatened to beat itself to pieces during its remaining run of fifteen miles.
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

Now, as I want to make a right turn, I apply right aileron and simultaneously increase right rudder considerably."
— from Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings by Dorothy Wayne

He was of a religious turn of mind and passed his time in reading religious books and writing articles about religion in papers.
— from Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition by S. Mukerji

" "I beg your honor's pardon, but the initial E in my surname should be pronounced like long a." "Excuse me, monsieur," laughed the justice; "but my French is rather rusty.
— from Freaks of Fortune; or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic

At sight of you there I was staggered—is not that your word?—and turning on my heel I ran right out of the house.
— from The Riddle of the Purple Emperor by Mary E. Hanshew