; it was almost as much a matter of conscience with them as to attend the Presbyterian church and vote Conservative.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[493] Cythnus, from katnuth, parvitas; or else from גובנא , gubna, or guphno, cheese; because the next island was famous for that commodity: Ut ut enim Cythnius caseus proprie non dicatur, qui e Cythno non est, tamen receptâ καταχρησει Cythnius dici potuit caseus a vicinâ Ceo.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

For the temples, the sites for those of the gods under whose particular protection the state is thought to rest and for Jupiter, Juno, and Minerva, should be on the very highest point commanding a view of the greater part of the city.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

A crowd of priests conducts a vast and complicated system of external ceremonies, to which symbolical significance is attributed, and to the smallest minutiæ of which the greatest weight is attached.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Whilst he lay there the people came and viewed him on all sides, and read upon his belt, "Seven at one blow."
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Nor was this the only start Mr Swiveller had of the market-gardener, for determining to show the family what quality of man they trifled with, and influenced perhaps by his late libations, he performed such feats of agility and such spins and twirls as filled the company with astonishment, and in particular caused a very long gentleman who was dancing with a very short scholar, to stand quite transfixed by wonder and admiration.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

que a no temblarme las manos If my hands weren’t trembling so, a palos, como a villanos, with my club you’d see me dealing os diera muerte a los dos!
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

I find a great advantage in being much occupied; and the number of persons I meet, and their different pursuits, create a varied entertainment for me.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Altogether, they were what the country people called a very 'promiscuous set.'
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

Peterie,’ cried a voice; ‘open the door.’
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

And their induction would have made, we doubt not, what Foigard in the play calls a ‘very pretty sheremony.’
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

It is quite natural that there should be a much greater inclination everywhere to borrow ‘full’ words (substantives, adjectives, notional verbs) than ‘empty’ words (pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs), to which class most of the ‘grammatical’ words belong.
— from Language: Its Nature, Development and Origin by Otto Jespersen

The gold-cock weathervane of the mill, so long the admiration of people living and dead, and indeed the symbol of himself, as he had been told, being so full of life and pride, courage and vigour-it lay among the ruins, a blackened relic of the Barbilles.
— from The Money Master, Complete by Gilbert Parker

A powerful cathartic and vermifuge.—
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

They then proceeded to scoop out a great vault in the body of the living rock, blocked the entrance with a wall in which is inserted a pretty Romanesque doorway, and so provided themselves with a parish church at very little expense.
— from A Book of the Cevennes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It was exclusive and repellent on the side of Nonconformity, and it placed Church authority very high; but the immense majority of its members were intensely loyal to the Anglican Church, and lived and died contentedly within its pale.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky