Rationalism is a kind of builder's bias which the impartial public cannot share; for the dead walls and glass screens which may have no function in supporting the roof are yet as needful as the roof itself to shelter and beauty.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Substantives in -nis are masculine; also twenty-nine others in -is , as follows: axis , callis , caulis , anguis , axle , path , cabbage , snake fascis , fūstis , lapis , sanguī̆s , bundle , club , stone , blood piscis , postis , pulvī̆s , ēnsis , fish , post , dust , glaive torquis , torris , unguis , mēnsis , twisted collar , firebrand , nail , month vectis , vermis , vōmis , collis , lever , worm , ploughshare , hill glīs , canālis , also follis , dormouse , conduit , ball cassēs , sentēs , veprēs , orbis , nets , brambles , thorns , plurals, circle cucumis , and sometimes corbis .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Then I will tell mother to prepare clean sheets for to-morrow morning; otherwise everybody here would know that I slept with you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If this crouching woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what caused what we have to relate to vanish.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

(10) From Prince Charles Stuart for political purposes.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Without cash your hopefullest Projector cannot stir from the spot: individual patriotic or other Projects require cash: how much more do wide-spread Intrigues, which live and exist by cash; lying widespread, with dragon-appetite for cash; fit to swallow Princedoms!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The Attic poets called him squill-head, and the comic poet, Kratinus, in his play 'Cheirones,' says, "From Kronos old and faction, Is sprung a tyrant dread, And all Olympus calls him, The man-compelling head."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

By this means six out of the seven sledges in the southern search will be seen to reach a point fifty miles from their original starting-point in perfect condition so far as their provisions are concerned.
— from Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal Or, Eighteen Months in the Polar Regions, in Search of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, in the Years 1850-51 by Sherard Osborn

Roofs of the skulls of nine Primates (Cattarrhines), seen from above and reduced to a common size.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel

It is a union of heart and soul, and is therefore noble; and in it the poor children shall find their cradle, so as to be able one day to ensure a like happiness for themselves."
— from Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 by Sarah Tytler

"Methought I heard the poor children, so familiar with the idea of death, so accustomed to this domestic spectacle of their existence, asking innocently of the strangers whom they visited,—as one would ask where is your garden, your kitchen, or your cabinet,—'where do you keep your dead here?'
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) by Various

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands conventional short form: Northern Mariana Islands former: Mariana Islands District (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) Norway conventional long form: Kingdom of Norway conventional short form: Norway local long form: Kongeriket Norge local short form: Norge Oman conventional long form: Sultanate of Oman conventional short form: Oman local long form: Saltanat Uman local short form: Uman former: Muscat and Oman Pakistan conventional long form: Islamic Republic of Pakistan conventional short form: Pakistan former: West Pakistan Palau conventional long form: Republic of Palau conventional short form: Palau local long form: Beluu er a Belau local short form: Belau former: Palau District (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands) Palmyra Atoll conventional long form: none conventional short form: Palmyra Atoll Panama conventional long form: Republic of Panama conventional short form: Panama local long form: Republica de Panama local short form: Panama Papua New Guinea conventional long form: Independent State of Papua New Guinea conventional short form: Papua New Guinea former: Territory of Papua and New Guinea abbreviation: PNG Paracel Islands conventional long form: none conventional short form: Paracel Islands Paraguay conventional long form: Republic of Paraguay conventional short form: Paraguay local long form: Republica del Paraguay local short form: Paraguay Peru conventional long form: Republic of Peru conventional short form: Peru local long form: Republica del Peru local short form: Peru Philippines conventional long form: Republic of the Philippines conventional short form: Philippines local long form: Republika ng Pilipinas local short form: Pilipinas Pitcairn Islands conventional long form: Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands conventional short form: Pitcairn Islands Poland conventional long form: Republic of Poland conventional short form: Poland local long form: Rzeczpospolita Polska local short form: Polska Portugal conventional long form: Portuguese Republic conventional short form: Portugal local long form: Republica Portuguesa local short form: Portugal Puerto Rico conventional long form: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico conventional short form: Puerto Rico Qatar conventional long form: State of Qatar conventional short form: Qatar local long form: Dawlat Qatar local short form: Qatar note: closest approximation of the native pronunciation falls between cutter and gutter, but not like guitar Reunion conventional long form: Department of Reunion conventional short form: Reunion local long form: none local short form: Ile de la Reunion former: Bourbon Island Romania conventional long form: none conventional short form: Romania local long form: none local short form: Romania Russia conventional long form: Russian Federation conventional short form: Russia local long form: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya local short form: Rossiya former: Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Rwanda conventional long form: Rwandese Republic conventional short form: Rwanda local long form: Republika y'u Rwanda local short form: Rwanda former: Ruanda Saint Helena conventional long form: none conventional short form: Saint Helena Saint Kitts and Nevis conventional long form: Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis conventional short form: Saint Kitts and Nevis former: Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis Saint Lucia conventional long form: none conventional short form: Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon conventional long form: Territorial Collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon conventional short form: Saint Pierre and Miquelon local long form: Departement de Saint-Pierre et
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"You mean 'The Merry Picknickers Came,'" said Fritz Schmidt, as Mary finished, "and here we are at home.
— from Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" by Edith May Bertels Thomas

“Your worship, is she a real lady, or like Moll Flaherty?” “Pshaw!” cried Sir Francis.
— from Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion by James Malcolm Rymer

When I received direct from a friend in the native state of Kashmir a long printed circular setting forth the hunting laws and game-protective measures of that very interesting principality, it gave me a shock.
— from Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday