It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

SYN: Clarification, purification, filtration, sublimation, polish, elegance, cultivation, civilization, subtilty, finesse, sophistry.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"Magia Posthuma," "Phlegon de Mirabilibus," "Augustinus de cura pro Mortuis," "Philosophicae et Christianae Cogitationes de Vampiris," by John Christofer Herenberg; and a thousand others, among which I remember only a few of those which he lent to my father.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Such a hypnotic deadening of sensibility and susceptibility to pain, which presupposes somewhat rare powers, especially courage, contempt of opinion, intellectual stoicism, is less frequent than another and certainly easier training which is tried against states of depression.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Pendant la période de transition, il serait également souhaitable que les maisons d'édition traditionnelles prennent progressivement en compte ce nouveau médium.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

CENTELLAS Pues el capitán Centellas Well, captain Centellas pone por don Juan Tenorio bets everything he has cuanto tiene.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Eschewen , v. to eschew, avoid, S3, PP; eschuwen , PP; eschue , C3, C, PP.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

lo re ſe cauo li pannj que haueua intorno le ſue ꝟgonie cõ alguni ſui principali et cantando Co minciorono a vogare paſſando ꝓ molti habitationi q̃ erano ſoura Lo fiume ariuaſſemo a due hore de nocte in caſa ſua daL principio de qʒſto fiume doue eſtauamo le naui fino a caſa del re erão
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The rules of the scientific game, burdens of proof, presumptions, experimenta crucis , complete inductions, and the like, are only binding on those who enter that game.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

"We were living at Garden Green in a small plastered edifice called Clematis Villa.
— from The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

His remarks on the political activity of the German Socialists, written no doubt before the war, now require revision.” + Spec 119:sup630 D 1 ‘17 110w “The book will be found particularly useful as a reference source on the modern labor movement including the related politics, and the paternalistic enterprises chiefly concerning the working class.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Et l’autre, que vous avez commandé qu’il ne soit depesché cy apres aucun office ou benefice dont il vous sera baillé memoire ou placet, que troys moys apres que vous verrez les roolles qui en seront faictz, pour les departir à ceulx qui font service, principallement en ce camp auprès de moy.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

At that moment that perverse eldest chick, conscious that his right leg was sticking out into the sunshine, instinctively drew it in under him, 65 and doing so, he again caught the angler’s eye.
— from More Tales of the Birds by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

enoscabo de sus derechos primordiales como entidad soberana; pero el cobro compulsivo e inmediato en un momento dado, por medio de la fuerza, no traería otra cosa que la ruina de las naciones más débiles y
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

Just then the conductor, supposing the two boys wished to be passengers, saluted them politely, exclaiming, “ Complete, complete! ”
— from Eric or, Under the Sea by S. B. C. (Susan Blagge Caldwell) Samuels

11. Inorganic Chemistry By Prof. E. C. C. Baly, F.R.S. 12.
— from Architecture by N. D'Anvers

Probably every county committee in the Demijohn Congressional District could show the like.
— from The Henchman by Mark Lee Luther