They also seem to take a much more permanent and prominent part in tribal life than is the case among the neighbouring populations.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But no, the leaders of the new movement all appear to have belonged to the middle class, nor from this moment do either masons or architects seem to have played any prominent part in Freemasonry.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

It was a pea, a pea pour it in its not a succession, not it a simple, not it a so election, election with.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

I am incited to this investigation by reflecting that this particular class of men will most likely play a prominent part in that order of things to which the events of our time are giving birth.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I Cant gitt my monement Dun in sixty Days and work hard very hard & sweet it was for want of maney hands I had No hiram Nor Solomon only my selfe T DEXTER World makers mankind with marbel and parchment and paper pen & ink and printers tips and Lyes upon Lyes amen
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

( ib. , 1852), of which three editions were issued; "Der Protestantismus als Politisches Princip" ( ib. , 1853-4); "Die Katholische Widerlegungen" ( ib. , 1854); "Wider Bunsen" (1856); "Die Lutherische Kirche und die Union" (1859-60).
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

All things have their uses and their part and proper place in Nature’s economy: the ducks eat the flies—the flies eat the worms—the Indians eat all three—the wild cats eat the Indians—the white folks eat the wild cats—and thus all things are lovely.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Commercial people and professional people in a small way were odious to her.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

The many windows flared with lights, the doorway was filled with men smoking, and looking full of importance, as if, instead of being the usual loungers of the tavern, they were about to perform a principal part in the exhibition; they made way with respectful and encouraging ceremony to any one who entered to form part of the audience, and rated with sharp words, and sometimes a ready cuff, a mob of little boys who besieged the door, and implored every one who entered to give them tickets to see the Crucifixion.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Calvinism, moderation of Bunyan's, 263 ; held by the Church of England at the end of the 16 ; century, 175 ; many of its doctrines contained in the Paulieian theology, 309 Cambon, 455 Cambridge, University of, favored by George I. and George II., 36 37 ; its superiority to Oxford in intellectual activity, 344 ; disturbances produced in, by the Civil War, 15 Cambyses, story of his punishment of the corrupt judge, 423 Camden, Lord, v 233 247 Camilla, Madame D'Arblay's, 314 Campaign (the), by Addison, 355 Canada, subjugation of, by the British in 176 244 Canning, Mr., 45 46 286 411 414 419 Cape Breton, reduction of, 244 Carafla, Gian Pietro, afterwards Pope Paul, IV.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

This only was clear to me in thinking over what Mr. Gladstone was reported to have said, and in thinking of his own achievements and career, that there are two classes of men who have played and still play a prominent part in the world—those who accomplish great things, and those who talk and make speeches about them.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude

But he still continued to play a prominent part in public affairs, for he was the leader in starting the project of the Erie canal.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

Pæonia, it is said, extended to Pelagonia and Pieria; Pelagonia is said to have been formerly called Orestia; and Asteropæus, one of the chiefs from Pæonia who went to Troy, to have been called, with great probability, the son of Pelagon, and the Pæonians themselves to have been called Pelagones.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

The chief literary patrons then were men who had played a prominent part in a revolutionary era,—men indeed of ancient birth or hereditary distinction, yet owing their pre-eminence to their talent, energy, and aptitude for the time, and thus open to new influences, and free from the prejudices of an old-established nobility.
— from The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

She has already played a principal part: I cannot think of any of the other persons who would be suitable.
— from Letters of John Calvin, Volume II Compiled from the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Jean Calvin

Statement by Mr. Wordsworth of the loss of salutary influence by burial in towns, § 172—Effects of careful visible arrangements on the mental associations of the population stated, § 173—Examples of the influence of cemeteries on the continent, §§ 174 and 175—Sir Christopher Wren’s plan for the exclusion of intra-mural burying places on the rebuilding of the City of London, § 176—Practice of the primitive Christians to bury outside cities, § 177 172 vi Superior agency of the clerici employed in burial: and a special agency of public officers of health instituted in the east, § 177 148 Opinion of the Rev. H. H. Milman on the means of the re-investment of the funeral services with religious influences 150 Dispositions manifested in this respect amongst the lower classes, § 178 to 181 153 The duties in respect to honouring the dead, as stated by Jeremy Taylor 157 Necessity and nature of the superior Agency requisite for private and public protection in respect to Interments.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

Such, then, was the person selected by Doctor Cogan to perform a principal part in the little musical drama which he had prepared for the reception of the great foreign violinist of the day, and the place chosen for its performance was the once celebrated hotel or tavern called the Pigeon-house, which at that period was the common resort for the meetings or departures of friends to or from England by the Holyhead packets.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 33, February 13, 1841 by Various