In the former, any woman will suit any man, for both are still in their primitive and undifferentiated condition; in the latter, all their characteristics have been developed by social institutions, and each mind, having taken its own settled form, not from education alone, but by the co-operation, more or less well-regulated, of natural disposition and education, we can only make a match by introducing them to each other to see if they suit each other in every respect, or at least we can let them make that choice which gives the most promise of mutual suitability.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His seat in the room in the President's house, where the regular meetings of the Council of Four were held (as distinguished from their private and unattended conferences in a smaller chamber below), was on a square brocaded chair in the middle of the semicircle facing the fireplace, with Signor Orlando on his left, the President next by the fireplace, and the Prime Minister opposite on the other side of the fireplace on his right.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

Belief in a thousand hells and heavens will not lift the apathetic out of apathy or hold back the passionate from passion; while a newly planted and ungalled community, in blessed forgetfulness of rewards or punishments, of cosmic needs or celestial sanctions, will know how to live cheerily and virtuously for life's own sake, putting to shame those thin vaticinations.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

cf. CONGRIO ANGULARUS, a “square” dish or pan ANISUM, anise, pimpinella ANSER, goose, gander; IN ANSERE, ℞ 234 ; —— JUS CANDIDUM ℞ 228 ANTIPASTO, “Before the Meal,” modern Italian appetizer; the prepared article usually comes in cans or glasses, consisting of tunny, artichokes, olives, etc., preserved in oil APER, see APRUS APEXABO, a blood sausage; cf.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

And all the cruelties and hardness of life, its pathos and unequal chances, its conceit, self-forgetfulness, and patience, were presented on the battle-field of this Kensington ball-room.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Urbs, in the same neighborhood, was a royal chase of the kings of Lombardy, and a small river, which excused the prediction, "penetrabis ad urbem," (Cluver. Ital.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

76 Many thousands of the inhabitants of Rome expired in their houses, or in the streets, for want of sustenance; and as the public sepulchres without the walls were in the power of the enemy the stench, which arose from so many putrid and unburied carcasses, infected the air; and the miseries of famine were succeeded and aggravated by the contagion of a pestilential disease.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Many thousands of the inhabitants of Rome expired in their houses, or in the streets, for want of sustenance; and as the public sepulchres without the walls were in the power of the enemy the stench, which arose from so many putrid and unburied carcasses, infected the air; and the miseries of famine were succeeded and aggravated by the contagion of a pestilential disease.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

To relieve his anxiety, the Sister promised to watch near him and administer baptism, should she perceive any unfavorable change in his condition.
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

The indictment added, that this produced an unspeakable confusion in the [Pg 332] company; for that the ladies, who before had pressed together for a place at the upper end of the table, immediately crowded with the same disorder towards the end that was quite opposite; that Mrs. Frontly had the insolence to clap herself down at the very lowest place of the table; that the Widow Partlett seated herself on the right hand of Mrs. Frontly, alleging for her excuse, that no ceremony was to be used at a round table; that Mrs. Fidget and Mrs. Fescue disputed above half-an-hour for the same chair, and that the latter would not give up the cause till it was decided by the parish register, which happened to be kept hard by.
— from The Tatler, Volume 4 by Steele, Richard, Sir

Cardigan, pale and uneasy, came in last, with the stenographer.
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood

The publisher or the editor, who is likewise said to have been a Russian noble, went to St. Petersburg, and objected that, as his paper appeared under censorship, if any one was to blame it was the censor who had let this poem pass.
— from The Land of Riddles (Russia of To-day) by Hugo Ganz

Nay, more,—he had cast such a spell over the minds of Her Britannic Majesty’s ministers as to have led to a practical allience upon certain important subjects.
— from Stone's River: The Turning-Point of the Civil War by Wilson J. Vance

Hence the whole land the patriot's ardour shares: Hence dread Religion dwells with social Joy; And holy passions and unsullied cares, In youth, in age, domestic life employ.
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

Lower down it is said: "At the same time, another Protestant minister , Mr. James Paull, at Tullynessle, four kilometres from Alford, saw that the aurora possessed an unusual clearness in the zenith, so that its height did not perhaps exeed 1300 metres."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various