It was rebuilt eight years afterwards and made a Roman colony.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

[‘ couth ’] cūða m. acquaintance, relative , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I was wont to pity the clumsy Irish laborers who cut ice on the pond, in such mean and ragged clothes, while I shivered in my more tidy and somewhat more fashionable garments, till, one bitter cold day, one who had slipped into the water came to my house to warm him, and I saw him strip off three pairs of pants and two pairs of stockings ere he got down to the skin, though they were dirty and ragged enough, it is true, and that he could afford to refuse the extra garments which I offered him, he had so many intra ones.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

He never allowed himself to make light of it; but always spoke of it and treated it as a matter of grave import; and in this he showed himself a master of the mental, moral, and religious constitution of human society.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

In the time of the first Cæsars, it was made a Roman colony.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Is there a great moral and religious civilization—the only justification of a great material one?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And o'er them many a flowing range Of vapour buoy'd the crescent-bark, And, rapt thro' many a rosy change, The twilight died into the dark.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

One Sunday morning, as Rawdon Crawley, his little son, and the pony were taking their accustomed walk in the park, they passed by an old acquaintance of the Colonel's, Corporal Clink, of the regiment, who was in conversation with a friend, an old gentleman, who held a boy in his arms about the age of little Rawdon.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

'Set your mind at rest, Clacher.
— from A Practical Novelist by John Davidson

In view of these considerations, it need hardly be said that American capital and enterprise would make a remarkable change in the land.
— from The Philippine Islands by Ramon Reyes Lala

Peele, Jonson, Shakespeare, Heywood, Munday, and Rowley certainly, Marlowe, Kyd, Greene, and many others probably, were actors as well as authors.
— from The Connecticut Wits, and Other Essays by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

"I've got to pitch him and he's my best man." "All right, Clancy, all right," said the owner genially.
— from Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant by Hugh S. (Hugh Stuart) Fullerton

It is evident, from this Extract, that Dr. Campbell gave credit to this Tradition, and assigns as a Reason, an Ode written by Sir Meredyth ab Rhys, (containing an allusion to it) who died about 1477, during the Reign of Richard the 3d, some Years before Columbus first sailed Westward.
— from An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition, Concerning the Discovery of America, by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the Year, 1170 by John Williams

All forms of motion are readily convertible into each other, and each form in which energy appears is only a phase of the total energy of nature.
— from The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by H. W. (Herbert William) Conn

They had the impression that I was a cowboy, and when they discovered their error they proposed I should jostle a fellow countryman of theirs as soon as they could decoy him off the car, they claiming that he still believed me a real cow-puncher out for a holiday.
— from On a Donkey's Hurricane Deck A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours, Starting Without a Dollar and Earning My Way by R. Pitcher (Robert Pitcher) Woodward

If the citizens of Venezuela like or permit that sort of thing, outside nations have no call to interfere; but this petty despot, having robbed, maltreated, and even murdered citizens of his own country, proceeded to maltreat and rob citizens of other countries and, among them, those of the German Empire.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White