The poor children scrambled up and tumbled down the house as they had always been accustomed to do.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

In the second place the psychologist can set up techniques for finding out how the enemy really does feel.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

A philosophic calm settled upon the clear brow of G. as it approached.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

"We will manipulate the election of Presidents whose past contains some undisclosed dark affair, some 'Panama,' then they will be faithful executors of our orders from fear of exposure and from the natural desire of every man who has attained a position of authority to retain the privileges, emoluments and the dignity associated with the position of President."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Remember, He said that that particular column stood upon the centre of the world.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

SYN: Intrinsic, eventual, regular, normal, cosmical, true, probable, consistent, spontaneous, unless, original.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Donaus non potest consistere sine uxore.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

My dearest , THE works that I have published to the world (though envied by some illiterate physicians) have merited such just applause, that thou mayest be confident in proceeding to publish anything I leave thee, especially this master-piece: assuring my friends and countrymen, that they will receive as much benefit by this, as by my Dispensatory , and that incomparable piece called, Semiotica Uranica enlarged, and English Physician .
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Your most dutiful DAUGHTER. H2 anchor LETTER XXV MY DEAR PARENTS, O let me take up my complaint, and say, Never was poor creature so unhappy, and so barbarously used, as poor Pamela!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Fifth ventral abdominal sclerite of the male much reduced, the remaining segments with straight posterior margin, overlapping scale-like; in the female only segment one and two scale-like, the others wholly or in part covered; sternopleurals usually three or more.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

Even when Edward III. was still on the throne, a London mayor of no special note, John Pyel, could set up in his native Northamptonshire village of Irthlingborough a college and church of remarkable 427 stateliness and dignity.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

[Pg 127] the sufficiency of their inward light; it is only amidst the full blaze of noonday Christianity that philosophers can stand up and declare that they have no need of God's teaching.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

per cent.— soll und haben .
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lieutenant Baker, Mr. Higginbotham, and the Englishmen all actively employed, while Raouf Bey and his officers, instead of attending to the pressing work of forming the permanent camp, sit under a tree and smoke and drink coffee throughout the day.
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

The policeman came stealthily upon one of these latter groups—Italians.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

There is also a tune called the Elf-king's tune, which several of the good fiddlers know right well, but never venture to play, for as soon as it begins both old and young, and even inanimate objects, are impelled to dance, and the player cannot stop unless he can play the air backwards, or that some one comes behind him and cuts the strings of his fiddle.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

It lay in the lee of a lofty, almost precipitous crag, standing up from the rolling fells in dark ferocity.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.