[methods of interpreting - list] symptomatology[Med], semiology, semeiology[obs3], semiotics; metoposcopy[obs3], physiognomy; paleography &c. (philology) 560; oneirology acception[obs3], acceptation, acceptance; light, reading, lection, construction, version. equivalent, equivalent meaning &c. 516; synonym; paraphrase, metaphrase[obs3]; convertible terms, apposition; dictionary &c. 562; polyglot.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"I should like it very much, only it looks so high up."
— from The Pleasures of the Country: Simple Stories for Young People by Harriet Myrtle

“Do you remember that beautiful thing he says,—and Gavan’s attitude reminds me of it,—‘ Le sage qui passe interrompt mille drâmes’? ”
— from The Shadow of Life by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Midway of its length stood Xoloc, a stone fort of immense strength, flanked by towers, and giving passage through a battlemented gateway.
— from The White Conquerors: A Tale of Toltec and Aztec by Kirk Munroe

Connected by innumerable ties with abstract science, Physiology is yet in the most intimate relation with humanity; and by teaching us that law and order, and a definite scheme of development, regulate even the strangest and wildest manifestations of individual life, she prepares the student to look for a goal even amidst the erratic wanderings of mankind, and to believe that history offers something more than an entertaining chaos--a journal of a toilsome, tragi-comic march no-whither.
— from Science & Education: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

With savage laughter the Seldwyla people took advantage of the occasion, and wherever their foes dared to defend themselves the dreaded paint brush came into instant action, handled with supreme skill by means of its long shaft, and in the mêlée there was indeed no lack of real heroism.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller

A sound of more oars in locks struck up the wind; a voice warned from the quarter-deck; and a shuffle echoed along the deck in the lee of the galley house.
— from The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage