Hence it is hardly rash to conjecture that the resemblance is no mere chance coincidence, but that in the afterbirth or placenta we have a physical basis (not necessarily the only one) for the theory and practice of the external soul.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

misthlið † n. misty cliff, cloud-capped slope .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In Sheffield, no master cutler can have more than one apprentice at a time, by a bye-law of the corporation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A clause with sī or nisi is often used parenthetically: as, sī placet , sī vidētur , sīs , sultis , if you please , sī quaeris , if you must know , in fact , sī dīs placet , please heaven , nisi mē fallit , if I am not mistaken , &c., &c.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

ANT: Frugal, saving, hoarding, economical, niggardly, miserly, close, closefisted.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

No man could call him sophist, buffoon, or pedant.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Now God ought to be to us the measure of all things, and not man (compare Crat.; Theaet.), as men commonly say (Protagoras): the words are far more true of Him.
— from Laws by Plato

The clean mixture is whiter and not coal color, never more coal color than altogether.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

We felt no touch of ill, when all sides round To battle came the Carthaginian host, And the times, shaken by tumultuous war, Under the aery coasts of arching heaven Shuddered and trembled, and all humankind Doubted to which the empery should fall By land and sea, thus when we are no more, When comes that sundering of our body and soul Through which we're fashioned to a single state, Verily naught to us, us then no more, Can come to pass, naught move our senses then— No, not if earth confounded were with sea, And sea with heaven.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Of the Ning Mansion, Chia Chen likewise contributed twenty taels.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Last night my cart came up from John E. Beale for iron pots to make salt out of the bay water, which cart brought me eight bushels oysters.
— from The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia by James Wharton

It should be the aim of the teacher to speak so, that children, servants, and people who cannot read, may be able to understand him, so far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 1 by George Müller

Matheson, Peter, i. 227 and n. Mathews, Charles, Comedian, i. 47 , 58 ; Abbotsford, 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 n. C.J., i. 78 and n. Matutinal inspiration, i. 113 ; ii. 379 .
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

None shall know where we have been or what we have seen to-night; neither taunt nor misconstruction can consequently molest us.
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

To get rid of nits from hair that is not matted, careful combing and washing with strongly alkaline fluids or with hot vinegar is suitable.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

Those Scripture-Songs should be read quite through to be fully appreciated, as no modern Christian could be full enough of grace to sing them.
— from Sabbath in Puritan New England by Alice Morse Earle

[AP] I venture to give one more extract from a recent letter received from Count Saporta, although he writes:—“Je vous écris n’ayant sous les yeux ni mes livres ni mes collections, ce qui enlevera nécessairement un peu de précision à quelques-unes de mes réponses.”
— from Fossil Butterflies Memoirs of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, I. by Samuel Hubbard Scudder

Having wrathfully considered his subject and come to the conclusion that no mitigating circumstances could exist, he next put to himself this problem: "If the mosquito cannot be exterminated, can it be neutralized?
— from Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Owen Johnson

In this exalted condition there was neither corporeal nor mental debility; and the body and soul were not more closely connected in the constitution of their being, than in the harmony of their friendship.
— from Female Scripture Biography, Volume I by F. A. (Francis Augustus) Cox

Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey, Melincourt and Crotchet Castle (1831), as well as Gryll Grange itself, all have the uniform, though by no means monotonous, canvas of a party of guests assembled at a country-house and consisting of a number of "originals," with one or more common-sense but by no means commonplace characters to serve as contrast.
— from The English Novel by George Saintsbury