And then again in a mighty bustle he bandied it, slubbered it, hacked it, whittled it, wayed it, darted it, hurled it, staggered it, reeled it, swinged it, brangled it, tottered it, lifted it, heaved it, transformed it, transfigured it, transposed it, transplaced it, reared it, raised it, hoised it, washed it, dighted it, cleansed it, rinsed it, nailed it, settled it, fastened it, shackled it, fettered it, levelled it, blocked it, tugged it, tewed it, carried it, bedashed it, bewrayed it, parched it, mounted it, broached it, nicked it, notched it, bespattered it, decked it, adorned it, trimmed it, garnished it, gauged it, furnished it, bored it, pierced it, trapped it, rumbled it, slid it down the hill, and precipitated it from the very height of the Cranie; then from the foot to the top (like another Sisyphus with his stone) bore it up again, and every way so banged it and belaboured it that it was ten thousand to one he had not struck the bottom of it out.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

My informant, a Perumannān at Trichūr, told me that their castemen south of the Karuvannūr bridge, about ten miles south of Trichūr, are called Vēlans, and that they neither interdine nor intermarry, because they give māttu (a washed cloth) to carpenters to free them from pollution.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

I beg your pardon, my name is not Ivan, but Ilia, ma'am—Ilia Telegin, or Waffles, as I am sometimes called on account of my pock-marked face.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For the former necessity is not imposed by the thing's own proper nature, but by the addition of a condition.
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

no ill news I bear; From Jove I come, Jove makes thee still his care; [pg 435]
— from The Iliad by Homer

For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or C to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men; his eye is ever directed towards things fixed and immutable, which he sees neither injuring nor injured by one another, but all in order moving according to reason; these he imitates, and to these he will, as far as he can, conform himself.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

For he, Adeimantus, whose mind is fixed upon true being, has surely no time to look down upon the affairs of earth, or to be filled with malice and envy, contending against men; his eye is ever directed towards things fixed and immutable, which he sees neither injuring nor injured by one another, but all in order moving according to reason; these he imitates, and to these he will, as far as he can, conform himself.
— from The Republic by Plato

The lad before him is a noble's son, and the one following is a merchant's, and so sons of the rich and of the poor, of the high and of the low, they go together, into the one Republic on the face of the earth, the Republic of Letters, where money does not count, nor rank, nor influence, nor intrigue, but where every man stands equal and the best man wins.
— from His Majesty Baby and Some Common People by Ian Maclaren

The nunnery is now, I believe, held in lease by the city of Oxford, which has converted its precincts into a barnyard.
— from Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In Bengal, in the Nilgherries, in Nepal, in Burmah, in Siam, Sumatra, and Ceylon, the districts in which the elephants most abound, are all hilly and mountainous.
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Knowledge of this nature is not intuitive, but must be acquired by study.
— from Femina, A Work for Every Woman by John A. (John Alexander) Miller

THE CEARNE SONG OF A MAN WHO HAS COME THROUGH NOT I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
— from Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

In a word, the white witnesses to the dastardly murder of Quong Lee created a general impression of unreliability upon the minds of the jury, who wholly failed to realize the somewhat obvious truth that the witnesses to a crime in Chinatown will naturally if not inevitably be persons who either reside in or frequent that locality.
— from Tutt and Mr. Tutt by Arthur Cheney Train

The state contains one of the principal points of entry to the Republic from the United States—Eagle Pass, or Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, on the International Railway, whilst Laredo, on the National, is near its border.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

[816] For an estimate of the nobility in North Italy, Bandello, with his repeated rebukes of mésalliances , is of importance (parte i. nov. 4, 26; parte iii.
— from The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt