These, at one shilling each, enabled me to buy shoes for the children, who, during our bad times, had been forced to dispense with these necessary coverings.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

And finally, in answer to that complete and absolute perfection of judgment which is required for sculpture, by reason of its having no means to add where it takes away; declaring, first, that such mistakes are irreparable, as the others say, and not to be remedied save by patches, which, even as in garments they are signs of poverty of wardrobe, so too both in sculpture and in pictures are signs of poverty of intellect and judgment; and saying, further, that patience, at its own leisure, by means of models, protractors, squares, compasses, and a thousand other devices and instruments for enlarging, not only preserves them from mistakes but enables them to bring their whole work to its perfection; they conclude, then, that this difficulty which they put down as the greater is nothing or little when compared to those which the painters have when working in fresco, and that the said perfection of judgment is in no way more necessary for sculptors than for painters, it being sufficient for the former to execute good models in wax, clay, or something else, even as the latter make their drawings on corresponding materials or on cartoons; and that finally, the quality that little by little transfers their models to the marble is rather patience than aught else.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

of senarius ( seni ) = consisting of six each , especially of the iambic senarii . sphaeram = a sphere, globe — σφαῖρα . cylindro = a cylinder .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Sed quia sic ab hominibus doctis accepimus, non solum ex malis eligere minima oportere, sed etiam excerpere ex his ipsis, [267] si quid inesset boni, propterea et otio fruor, non illo quidem, quo debebat is, [268] qui quondam peperisset otium civitati, nec eam solitudinem languere patior, quam mihi affert necessitas, non voluntas.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

N. expansion; increase &c. 35 of size; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation[obs3]; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence[obs3], turgidness, turgidity; dispansion|; obesity &c. (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus[Med]; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Dì nahibáwu ang tanan, Whoever received the gossip passed it on, so eventually everybody learned of it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[888] On the heresy of Origen, see Epiphanius ( Epistola ad Joannem Hierosol. ); Jerome ( Epistola 61, ad Pammachium ); and Augustine ( De Hæres. 43).
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

George, Lord Castlewood (the second viscount) of King Charles the First's time, had no male issue save his one son Eustace Esmond, who was killed, with half of the Castlewood men beside him, at Worcester fight.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

"May I inquire, Miss Cullen, why you go out of your way to use language of such extravagant exaggeration?
— from Frivolities, Especially Addressed to Those Who Are Tired of Being Serious by Richard Marsh

Three feet, six, nine at least; with a capability of seemingly endless expansion; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate black, with paler longitudinal lines.
— from Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature by J. G. (John George) Wood

The country called HELLAS by the Helle'nes , its native inhabitants, and known to us by the name of Greece, forms the southern part of the most easterly of the three great peninsulas of Southern Europe, extending into the Mediterranean between the Æge'an Sea, or Grecian Archipelago, on the east, and the Ionian Sea on the west.
— from Mosaics of Grecian History by Robert Pierpont Wilson

Miss Kemble, or somebody else, electrified the choruses; for, wonderful to relate, they condescended to act—to perform—to pretend to be what they are meant for!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, by Various

Lord Henry D'Este is one of the most amusing creatures I ever met with, he has always some droll anecdote to relate that calls forth universal merriment; but of single men, the Earl of St. Eval, eldest son of the Marquis of Malvern, is the most agreeable.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

When the party broke up, Colonel Hubert, leaving his aunt to the care of Sir Edward, escorted Mrs. Peters and the four young ladies down stairs, where another shock awaited him on hearing her servant enquire which carriage should be called up first, for before answering, Mrs. Peters turned to Agnes, and said,— "To which name are your servants accustomed to answer, my dear?
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

Had he given him to be a leader for the conquest of some earthly enemies, it had been a great goodness to display his banners, and bring us under his conduct; but he sent him to lay down his life in the bitterest and most inglorious manner, and exposed him to a cursed death for our redemption from that dreadful curse, which would have broken us to pieces, and irreparably have crushed us.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

She gives one a word over one shoulder, and one over t'other, and if the Lord above knows what's in that gal's mind or what she's up to, he knows more than I do, or she either, else I lose my bet."
— from Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I have witnessed a disregard of human life in matters of promotion in our service, etc., even among men of gentle blood, which makes the conduct of these Spaniards under vehement temptation, and when they could do as they pleased, sufficiently intelligible.
— from The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight