( b. ) Also a few verbs in -ēre denoting feeling: as, miseret (or miserētur , miserēscit ), it distresses , miseritum est ; paenitet , it repents , paenituit ; piget , it grieves , piguit or pigitum est ; pudet , it shames , puduit or puditum est ; taedet , it is a bore , taesum est .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

, dim. , sforzando , morendo , etc.)—the register which admits of the most expressive playing, in the truest sense of the word.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Thence I to the Swan, thinking to have seen Sarah but she was at church, and so I by water to Deptford, and there made a visit to Mr. Evelyn, who, among other things, showed me most excellent painting in little; in distemper, Indian incke, water colours: graveing; and, above all, the whole secret of mezzo-tinto, and the manner of it, which is very pretty, and good things done with it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thus is it defined by Dr. Johnson; and the definition gives me no other idea than of the most exquisitely polished instinct.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

It was indeed true that much was now known that had not been suspected formerly, for the people had had no foreign enemies, and, being both quick-witted and inquisitive into the mysteries of nature, had made extraordinary progress in all the many branches of art and science.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Kant calls it the "inner sense"; sometimes it is spoken of as "consciousness of self"; but its commonest name in modern English psychology is "introspection."
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Clarence will fix you all right.” CHAPTER XIV “DEFEND THEE, LORD” I paid three pennies for my breakfast, and a most extravagant price it was, too, seeing that one could have breakfasted a dozen persons for that money; but I was feeling good by this time, and I had always been a kind of spendthrift anyway; and then these people had wanted to give me the food for nothing, scant as their provision was, and so it was a grateful pleasure to emphasize my appreciation and sincere thankfulness with a good big financial lift where the money would do so much more good than it would in my helmet, where, these pennies being made of iron and not stinted in weight, my half-dollar’s worth was a good deal of a burden to me.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Plato’s most eminent pupil, ii. 181 . peripatetic, why so called, iv. 181 .
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

In three minutes every pane in the west and north windows was broken and the hail poured in through the apertures covering the floor with stones, the smallest of which was as big as a hen’s egg.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Colonel Alexander, an independent historian, is the author of military essays published in Marine Corps Gazette , Naval Institute Proceedings , Naval History , Leatherneck , Amphibious Warfare Review , and Florida Historical Quarterly .
— from Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander

The little nut-cracker was frightened at seeing so many eyes peeping in upon him from every crevice and opening in his box.
— from Caleb in the Country by Jacob Abbott

There were many eloquent passages in it, which seemed now to take on a new significance, as coming from the lips of the Elder, absent from his flock and present with Christ.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

From here we proceeded to Taos, one of the most extensive pueblos in the Rio Grande region.
— from Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Indians of New Mexico in 1880 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 429-466 by James Stevenson

It may exhibit peculiarities in the African, by which he is distinguishable from the Caucasian.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 05 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Originally, it was thought that repetition brought about an intensification of the magical effect, particularly in the case of word-magic.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

I should be content that Christ and I met, suppose He should stand on the other side of hell's lake and cry to me, "Either put in your foot and come through, or else ye shall not have Me at all."
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

“She was the most eccentric person I ever met with; the last of a race of which it will be impossible, from the change in human ideas, ever to behold another specimen.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

Perhaps no one among his great competitors exceeded him in eloquence, and certainly none of them ever had greater opportunities of becoming acquainted with the statesmen and the diplomatic policy of England and of Europe, during one of the most eventful periods in history.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, January, 1854 by Various