But dinginess is a quality which assumes all manner of disguises; and Lily soon found that it was as latent in the expensive routine of her aunt's life as in the makeshift existence of a continental pension.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

They believe in all manner of devils and local sprites.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

But Axël, meditated over during a lifetime, shows us Villiers' ideal of his own idealism.
— from The Symbolist Movement in Literature by Arthur Symons

and hot water, and cold water, and salts, and rubbings, and eau de Cologne , and all manner of delicate attentions, long sustained, at length contributed to Julian's restoration.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

He holds as a mark of dignity a long staff in his hands, and over him two snakes meet, one being coiled round his staff.
— from The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2) by William Crooke

Whether this came from the brief sojourn of the Pilgrims in Holland cannot be said with certainty, though it seems most improbable; the greater likelihood is that the conditions which prevailed in colonial America were those best adapted to the genius of the Dutch people in the matter of domesticity, as later shown in the somewhat similar conditions and results in South Africa.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

I intend to work hard and study the details of the business outside my own department, and learn Spanish as well as French——" Lars Larssen flicked thumb and finger together contemptuously.
— from Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

In accordance with the rote of fifty years it had been ordained that the convention should meet in the Marshallville courthouse, but in the week previous a fire of mysterious origin destroyed a large segment of the shingled roof of that historic structure.
— from Old Judge Priest by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

impost, they judged it would enable them to extinguish the national debt in twenty-five years; but, in addition to this fund, they expected to make annual requisitions on the States, [Pg 81] for one and a half million of dollars at least; so that gentlemen could not expect the whole to be paid by this single fund in a short time.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 1 (of 16) by United States. Congress