But as men, for the atteyning of peace, and conservation of themselves thereby, have made an Artificiall Man, which we call a Common-wealth; so also have they made Artificiall Chains, called Civill Lawes, which they themselves, by mutuall covenants, have fastned at one end, to the lips of that Man, or Assembly, to whom they have given the Soveraigne Power; and at the other end to their own Ears.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

At the time when the morbid and corrupted Chandala classes became Christianised in the whole of the imperium, the very contrary type, nobility, was extant in its finest and maturest forms.
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Helen. or Dear Mrs. Kindhart: Dick and I are to be married at Christ Church Chantry at noon on Thursday the tenth.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

XVIII As when a wearie traveller that strayes 155 By muddy shore of broad seven-mouthed Nile, Unweeting of the perillous wandring wayes, Doth meete a cruell craftie Crocodile,
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

cēdō , move along cēdere cessī cessus claudō , shut claudere clausī clausus Sometimes clūdō , clūdere , clūsī , clūsus .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The Boy's Book of Model Aeroplanes Collins Century Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Rawal Udai [13] Singh of 357 Dungarpur, with two hundred of his clan; Ratna of Salumbar, with three hundred of his Chondawat kin; Raemall Rathor, son of the prince of Marwar, with the brave Mertia leaders Khetsi and Ratna; Ramdas the Sonigira Rao; Uja the Jhala; Gokuldas Pramara; Manikchand and Chandrbhan, Chauhan chiefs of the first rank in Mewar; besides a host of inferior names.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

She thinks that Nature ne’er designed, Courage to man alone confined; Can cowardice her sex adorn, Which most exposes ours to scorn; She wonders where the charm appears In Florimel’s affected fears; For Stella never learned the art At proper times to scream and start; Nor calls up all the house at night, And swears she saw a thing in white.
— from The Battle of the Books, and other Short Pieces by Jonathan Swift

But he only smiled and turned it off with a joke—said he didn't believe in all that subterranean conspiracy, and asked whether I thought that on a bright moonlight night like that he shouldn't notice a band of masked and cloaked conspirators closing in upon him with daggers in their hands.
— from The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

Mercator, in his maps and charts, chose Corvo, one of the Azores, for his first meridian, because at that time it was the line of no variation of the compass.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

CHICKEN ASPIC WITH WALNUTS Make a clear chicken consommé (see page 100 ).
— from The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald

She was quite aware that there had been a certain amount of deliberation in her own headlong plunge, convinced as she was that high romance belonged to youth alone, and fearful lest it pass her by; aware also that a part of Dwight's halo, aside from his looks and manners and chivalrous charm, consisted in his being a martyr to an unjust fate, and, as such, under the ban of her august family.
— from The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

If the Trinitarian view of the mediatorial office of Christ be correct, it is not easy to perceive how he could have come in the show of pride and pre-eminence; had he not laid aside the glories of his Deity, and clothed himself with a suffering humanity, his mission, as commonly conceived, could have had no existence, nor any one purpose of it have been answered.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

When some twenty years afterwards she first resolved to publish it, she brought me a clear, complete copy in ink.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

It made against continuity Climate counts for much in the formation of a people, and in determining its history.
— from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical by Lucas, Charles Prestwood, Sir

If any one be carving awkwardly with the left wrist doubled under, the right arm angularly extended, and the knife sawing at a joint, our village miners and country Californians call it "cack-" or "cag-handed."
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies