square, polygon, circus, crescent, mall, piazza, arcade, colonnade, peristyle, cloister; gardens, grove, residences; block of buildings, market place, place, plaza. anchorage, roadstead, roads; dock, basin, wharf, quay, port, harbor.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But still I bore every thing without crying out: when presently giving me another pause, he rushed, as it were, on that part whose lips, and round about, had felt this cruelty, and by way of reparation, glued his own to them; then he opened, shut, squeezed them, plucked softly the overgrowing moss, and all this in a style of wild passionate rapture and enthusiasm, that expressed excess of pleasure; till betaking himself to the rod again, encouraged by my passiveness, and infuriated with this strange taste of delight, he made my poor posteriors pay for the ungovernableness of it; for now showing them no quarter, the traitor cut me so, that I wanted but little of fainting away, when he gave over.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

How much peevish ponderousness, paralysis, dampness, dressing-gown languor, and beer is there not in German intelligence!
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

She was aware of their breasts gripped, clenched narrow in a hold that never relaxed, she was aware of their red nostrils flaming with long endurance, and of their haunches, so rounded, so massive, pressing, pressing, pressing to burst the grip upon their breasts, pressing for ever till they went mad, running against the walls of time, and never bursting free.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The "arrangement" referred to is one whereby every guest means a bonus added to their wages of so much per person per day for all employees.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

But they cannot be mastered and applied by thinking or reading about them—you must practise, practise , PRACTISE .
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

si lacus emissus lapsu et cursu suo ad 10 mare profluxisset, perniciosum populo Romano: sin autem ita esset eductus, ut ad mare pervenire non posset, tum salutare nostris fore?
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

I replied that I believed the French policy was based upon the belief that the country needed a recognized head, and that as they had a treaty with the Shôgun, who apparently was the most powerful political personage, they thought it would be better to strengthen him as far as possible.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

‘Dear, if your heart is hard towards me—justly hard, I know—but, listen, if it is hard, dear, ask him I have wronged the most—him whose wife I was to have been—before you quite decide against my poor poor prayer!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

[Leszek MILLER]; Polish Peasant Party or PSL [Jaroslaw KALINOWSKI] post-Solidarity parties: Freedom Union or UW; note-Democratic Union and Liberal Democratic Congress merged to form Freedom Union [Leszek BALCEROWICZ]; Christian-National Union or ZCHN [Marian PILKA]; Center Alliance Party or PC [Jaroslaw KACZYNSKI]; Peasant Alliance or PL
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[196] ——"Dr. Earle, now Lord Bishop of Salisbury, of whom I may justly say, (and let it not offend him, because it is such a truth as ought not to be concealed from posterity, or those that now live and yet know him not,) that, since Mr. Hooker died, none have lived whom God hath blessed with more innocent wisdom, more sanctified learning, or a more pious, peaceable, primitive temper: so that this excellent person seems to be only like himself, and our venerable Richard Hooker."
— from Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle

Malta purchasing power parity - $17,200 (2002 est.)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It is known as dwarf marine pine, pricklecone pine, bishop pine, and obispo pine.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

1 a , Basal membrane, with the cementing apparatus, of Coronula balænaris ; a small portion of the parietal membrane, p p p , which coats the folded shelly walls, is left adherent to the basal membrane.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) The Balanidæ, (or Sessile Cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc., etc. by Charles Darwin

The eggs are laid on leaflets of the milk parsley ( Peucedanum palustre ), which in the fenny home of the butterfly is perhaps the chief food-plant of the caterpillar.
— from The Butterflies of the British Isles by Richard South

Armadillo Arrowroot, wild Arrows, Indian Arthur, King Asses, effect of wourali poison on Aura vulture Banks, Sir Joseph Barbadoes Basseterre Bête-rouge Birds, Demeraran; Brazilian, Bitterns Blow-pipe, Indian Boa-constrictor Boclora Bois immortel Bow, Indian Broadway Bucaniers Buffalo Bug, encounter with a Buonaparte, Prince Charles Bush-master Bush-rope Camoudi snake Campanero Canadians characterised Caprimulgus, see Goat-suckers Caps, a diatribe against Cassava Cassique Castries Cayenne Cayman; expedition in search of; fishing for; ridden by author Chegoe Clove-trees Cock-of-the-rock Constable rock Coral snake Cotingas Couguar Coulacanara snake, capture of a Counacouchi, see Bush-master Coushie-ant Cuia Curlew, scarlet Custom House difficulties Demerara, falls of the River potentialities of the colony Deserted Village , Goldsmith's, quoted Dog, effect of wourali poison on a; probably not native to Guiana Dolphin Dominica Eagle, white-headed Edmonstone, Charles Edmonstone, Robert Egret Erie Canal; Lake Essequibo river; falls of the; scenery Europe, future American independence of Fever, treatment of Fig-tree, wild Fire-fly Fish, Demeraran Fishing, Indian method of, Flying-fish, Forest-trees, Demeraran; destruction of North American, Fort St. Joachim, Fowl, effect of wourali poison on a, Frigate pelican, Goat-suckers; superstitious fear of, Grand gobe-mouche, Gross-beak, Guadalope, Guiana, future of; bird's-eye view of, Hannaquoi, Hermit, a white, Hia-hia, History of Brazil , Southey's, Horned screamer, Houtou, Howling monkey, see Monkeys Hudson, journey up the, Hugues, Victor, Humming-birds, Ibibirou, Impostor, an Indian, Indians; mode of life; religion, See also Macoushi Indians India-rubber, Inn-album, inscription in an, Insects, Demeraran, Irish emigrants, Jabiru, Jacamar, Jaguar, Jay, Guianan, Jesuits, expulsion of the, Kearney, Dennis, Kessi-kessi paroquet, Kingfishers, King of the vultures, Labarri snake, La Gabrielle, national plantation at, Land-tortoise, Lizards, Maam, see Tinamou Macoushi Indians; their methods of hunting; trick played by one on the author, Manikins, Maroudis, Martin, M., Martinico, Metallic-cuckoo, Mibiri Creek, Mines in Guiana, Monkeys; red, or howling; a specimen with Grecian features, Monteiro, Montreal, Mora-tree, Museum at Philadelphia, New Amsterdam, New York, Niagara, Falls of, Nobrega, Father, Olinda; botanic garden at, Ornithology of the United States , Wilson's, Otters, Owl, a crab-eating, Ox, effect of wourali poison on an, Pacou, Paramaribo, Parasitic plants, Parima, Lake, Park, Mungo, Parrots, Partridge, Peccari, Pelican, Percy, Earl, Pernambuco; environs, Petrel, stormy, Philadelphia, Phaeton, Pi-pi-yo, Pombal, Preservation of colours of toucan's bill; of quadrupeds; of zoological specimens generally; of birds, Purple-heart, Quadrupeds, forest, Quashi, Daddy, Quebec, Quiver, Indian, Rattlesnake, Red-headed finch, Red monkey, _see_ Monkeys Redstart, Rhinoceros-beetle, Rice-bird, Roseau, Rubber-tree, Saba, St. John's, St. Lucie, St. Pierre, Saintes, the, Sangre-de-buey, Saratoga, Savanna, a Demerara, Slavery in Demerara; in West Indies, Slaves, encounter with runaway, Sloths; three-toed, or ai; two-toed, Smoking, Snakes; hunting, Spice plantations, Spikes, poisoned, Stabroek, Southey, Robert, Sun-bird, Superstition, reflections on, Surinam, Tangaras, Tapir, Tarbet, misadventures of Mr., Tauronina, Taxidermy, see Preservation Ticks, Ticonderoga, Tiger, _see_ Jaguar Tiger-bird, small, Tinamou, Toucans, Travellers, advice to, Travellers' tales, Troupiales, Troy, Trumpeters, Turtle, United States, progress of the, Utica, Vampires, Vanilla, Vultures, Wallaba-tree, Wasps, Water-hens, Water-mamma, Weapons, Indian, Whip-poor-will, see Goat-suckers Whipsnake, Wild boars, hunting, Wild man of the woods, a, Wilson, Alexander, Woodpeckers, Wound, treatment of a, Wourali poison; its effects; ingredients; preparation; method of using: antidotes; experiments in England, Yabahou, the evil spirit, Yawaraciri,
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

His rank in life made such an action perfectly gratuitous on my part, and to many people perhaps perfectly unpardonable.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To select the most productive plants and breed again from these is, however, a more promising profit plan.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall