Orange-tawny C. Researched C. Active C. Embroidered C. Encompassed C. Vital C. Glazed C. Strouting out C. Magistral C. Interlarded C. Jolly C. Monachal C. Burgher-like C. Lively C. Subtle C. Empowdered C. Gerundive C. Hammering C. Ebonized C. Franked C. Clashing C. Brasiliated C. Polished C. Tingling C. Organized C. Powdered Beef C. Usual C. Passable C. Positive C. Exquisite C. Trunkified C. Spared C. Trim C. Furious C. Bold C. Succulent C. Packed C. Lascivious C. Factious C. Hooded C. Gluttonous C. Clammy C. Fat C. Boulting C. New-vamped C. High-prized C. Snorting C.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Likewise the proper officers, called my Lord Mayor's officers, constantly attended in their turns, as they were in waiting; and if any of them were sick or infected, as some of them were, others were instantly employed to fill up and officiate in their places till it was known whether the other should live or die.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

But if thou marry once, [5813] cogitato in omni vita te servum fore , bethink thyself what a slavery it is, what a heavy burden thou shalt undertake, how hard a task thou art tied to, (for as Hierome hath it, qui uxorem habet, debitor est, et uxoris servus alligatus ,) and how continuate, what squalor attends it, what irksomeness, what charges, for wife and children are a perpetual bill of charges; besides a myriad of cares, miseries, and troubles; for as that comical Plautus merrily and truly said, he that wants trouble, must get to be master of a ship, or marry a wife; and as another seconds him, wife and children have undone me; so many and such infinite encumbrances accompany this kind of life.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The river-meaning (or character) must serve to designate the Rhone, the Rhine, the Mississippi, the Hudson, the Wabash, in spite of their varieties of place, length, quality of water; and must be such as not to suggest ocean currents, ponds, or brooks.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

A large figure of Christ might be vaguely descried above the judges, and everywhere there were pikes and halberds, upon whose points the reflection of the candles placed tips of fire.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Forth from the town in litters came, Or chariots, many a royal dame, And honoured so the funeral ground, With aged followers ringed around.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Some traces of Yenking still existed in Gaubil's time; the only relic of it now pointed out is a pagoda outside of the Kwang-An-Man, or western gate of the Outer City, marked in the War Office edition of the Russian Map as "Tower."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Little, as a modern writer has remarked, do the persons using these phrases know of their remote and somewhat classical origin, which may, indeed, be traced to a period anterior to that when monarchs monopolized the surface of coined money with their own images and superscriptions.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

] CERIZET (Olympe Cardinal, Madame), wife of foregoing; born about 1824; daughter of Mme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

His spirit was unbroken by his trials; though misfortune had followed him, he still carried in his heart the fixed resolution of conquering Mexico.
— from The adventures of Hernan Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico by Francis L. (Francis Lister) Hawks

Whitelocke assures us that "at a conference [Pg 43] between him (Peters) and the King, the King desired one of his own chaplains might be permitted to come to him" on the occasion of his execution; he had refused the ministrations of the Presbyterian divines, "and thereupon the Bishop of London was ordered to go to his Majesty."
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

A long-legged lad, of about thirteen, with a brog or awl was teasing out the end of a flambeau in preparation to light it for some purpose not to be guessed at, and a servant lass, pock-marked, with one eye on the pot and the other up the lum, as we say of a glee or cast, made a storm of lamentation, crying in Gaelic— “My grief!
— from John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn by Neil Munro

They said little, but his presence wrapped her round with a sense of companionship more intimate than she had yet felt even in their happiest times together.
— from Far to Seek A Romance of England and India by Maud Diver

Lilian indulgently thought him fussy about her health and his own and the awful menaces of the exquisite climate; but she did not attribute his fussiness to his age; she regarded him as merely happening to be a bit fussy on certain matters.
— from Lilian by Arnold Bennett

If we assume that one cran measure contains 1,000 herrings, we see that over 1,000,000,000 herrings were caught in less than 4 months, and this probably represents only a small fraction of the number present on the fishing grounds.
— from The Fishing Industry by William E. (William Edward) Gibbs

Every evening at the close of the day’s work the striking figure of the old carver may be seen on the street of Saint Anne’s wending his way to Benediction.
— from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

A judicious traveller remarks, that it is probable the land will be pushed away, to join the island of Samos, and such a change will be wrought on this coast by the caprice of the river, that “barren rocks may be enamelled with rich domains, and other cities may rise and flourish on the bounty of the Meander.”
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

It is clear that in our present phase of civilisation, men's necessities often compel them to transgress.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

The name of Campbell mustered strong; the three field-officers, six captains, and fourteen subalterns, being of that name.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean