But we now arrive at a higher division of masonic symbolism, which, passing beyond these tangible symbols, brings us to those which are of a more abstruse nature, and which, as being developed in a ceremonial form, controlled and directed by the ritual of the order, may be designated as the ritualistic symbolism of Freemasonry.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He recalled to his mind the details of the first night, and with a beating heart and a brain on fire he re-entered the hotel and flew toward Kitty’s chamber.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

They were generally at the same time erected into a commonalty or corporation, with the privilege of having magistrates and a town-council of their own, of making bye-laws for their own government, of building walls for their own defence, and of reducing all their inhabitants under a sort of military discipline, by obliging them to watch and ward; that is, as anciently understood, to guard and defend those walls against all attacks and surprises, by night as well as by day.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I slept till noon, and was awoke by Marazzini, who came to ask me to give him some dinner.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This paper is headed “ Walks out of this Town ,” and underneath it is set down the names of the villages in the neighbourhood at which a beggar may call when out on his walk, and they are so arranged as to allow the cadger to make a round of about six miles each day, and return the same night.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

“And I,” said Gurth, “could take it on my halidome, that I have heard the voice of the good yeoman who won it, by night as well as by day, and that the moon is not three days older since I did so.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Here and in the neighbouring Towns, 'flattened balls' picked from the streets of Nanci are worn at buttonholes: balls flattened in carrying death to Patriotism; men wear them there, in perpetual memento of revenge.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“Ah!” cried the prince, catching sight of the Moscow colonel standing near, and with a bow to Madame Stahl he walked away with his daughter and the Moscow colonel, who joined them.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

is it not? Ponio, v. to swell, to puff Pont, n. an arch, a bridge Pontbren, n. a wooden bridge Poplysen, n. the poplar tree Pôr, n. what is over, supreme Porch, n. a pig, a swine Porchell, n. a tiny pig Porchelliad, n. a pigging Porchellu, v. to bring pigs Porchellyn, n. a little pig Porfa, n. pasture, grass Porfâd, n. a pasturing Porfadir, n. pasture-ground Porfâu, v. to depasture Porfel, n. pasture, grass Porfelu, v. depasture Porfelydd, n. a pasturer Porffor, Porphor, a. purple Pori, v. to graze, to browse Poriad, n. a grazing, a browsing Porianu, v. to depasture Poriant, n. pasturage, browsing Poriol, a. pasturing, grazing Portreiad, n. a pattern, a sampler, a model Porth, n. aid, help what bears; sustenance; a carriage; a ferry; a port; a gateway Portha, v. to afford aid or help Porthfa, n. a carrying place; a port Porthi, v. to aid, to support, to bear, to convey Porthiad, n. a helping on; a bearing Porthiadu, v. to be a support Porthianna, v. to provide; to act as a drover Porthianuu, v. to render support Porthiaunus, a. having support Porthiant, n. support, succour Porthid, n. assistance, support Porthladd, n. a port, a harbour Porthle, n. a carrying place Porthloedd, n. means of support Porthlys, n. a porte-mote Porthmon, n. a purveyor, a drover Porthmona, v. to act as a drover Porthmonaeth, n. purveyance Porthog, n. a portcullis Porthol, a. aiding, supporting Portholi, v. to render supportative Porthor, n. a porter, a door-keeper Porthordy, n. a porter’s lodge Porthori, v. to act as porter Porthoriaeth, n. a porter’s office Porthwy, n. assistance support Porthwr, n. a provider, a feeder; a porter Porthwys, n. a ferryman Poset, n. curdled milk, posset Posfardd, n. a preceptive bard Posiad, n. a questioning, a posing Posiar, n. a fattened hen Posio, v. to examine, to pose Posned, n. a squat; a skillet Post, n. a post, a pillar Postio, v. to put up a post Pot, n. a pot Potel, n. a bottle; a truss Poteliad, n. a bottling Poteli, v. to bottle; to truss Poten, n. a paunch; a pudding Potenig, n. a little paunch Potenog, a. having a paunch Potenu, v. to form a paunch Potes, n. a pottage, broth, soup Potiad, n. a potting; potation Pot, v. to pot; to pipple Poth, n. what bulges; a boss Pothan, n. a bump, a boss; a cub Pothell, n. a wheal, a blister Pothellog, a. puffy; blistered Pothellu, v. to puff; to blister Pothon, n. a boss; a cub Powys, n. a state of rest Prad, n. a gentle spread; a rub Praff, a. ample; thick round Praffder, n. thickness round Praffu, v. thicken in compass Praidd, n. a flock, a herd; booty, prey Pianc, n. a frolic, a prank Prancio, v. to play a prank Pratiad, n. a stroking, a coaxing Pratio, v. to stroke, to coax Praw, Prawf, profion, n. an essay, a trial, a proof Prawen, n. an essay; a cast in play Prawfaen, n. a touchstone Pre, n. the origin of a course Pred, n. a stray; a migration Preg, n. a greet, a greeting Pregeth, n. a sermon Pregethiad, n. a preaching Pregethu, v. to preach Pregethwr, n. a preacher Preidiad, n. a migrating Preidio, v. to migrate Preiddio, n. a herding; predation Preiddio, v. to herd, to collect a herd; to predate Preinio, v. to carouse Praethiad, a practising Preithig, a. belonging to practice
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

But his Hellenism, I need not add, was anything but the pale neo-Platonism that has run like a thread through the thinking of the Western world since the days of the Christian Fathers.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Marjorie accepted the mystery of a girl who didn't know her own name, and who apparently belonged to nobody, just as she would have accepted any other girl friend who might [30] have come into her rather uneventful life.
— from The Girl from Arizona by Nina Rhoades

New Discoveries.—The Boat.—A great Swell.—Meditations and Plans.—A new, and wonderful, and before unheard-of Application of Spruce Gum.—I'm afloat!
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

They reentered the town a few minutes before noon and were almost back to the turn towards the Orphans’ Home, when far down the street they caught the glitter of brass and the glow of red.
— from The Triumph of Virginia Dale by John Francis

It must be remembered Lee's troops had one day or more rest since leaving Petersburg and Richmond, and Grant's army had none, and the latter had been moved by night as well as by day, and irregularly fed.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

So on a certain Sunday we set off from Oakley Street in a taxicab piled high with these treasures and with hammer and nails, and with a bottle of wine, sandwiches of toast and chicken, apples and two kitchen chairs.
— from Up and Down by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

The men again closed, when Smith drew a knife and made several attempts upon his companion’s life by attempting to cut his throat, which was fortunately well protected by the thick rolls of cambric it was then the custom to tie round the neck, as well as by a thick scarf, which was cut through in several places.
— from Recollections of Old Liverpool by James Stonehouse

Buffalo Bill's horse stood near, and with a bound I was upon his back, rushed him into the stream, swam across and escaped.
— from Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer; Or, The Stranger in Camp by Prentiss Ingraham

We steady our rifles and our nerves; all trace of fear is gone; nothing remains but eagerness for the conflict that seems so near, and with a bound, without waiting for orders, we move quickly up the hill.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various