All the christians were apprehended and imprisoned; and Galerius privately ordered the imperial palace to be set on fire, that the christians might be charged as the incendiaries, and a plausible pretence given for carrying on the persecution with the greatest severities.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe
But railway enterprise, vast as has been its influence, touched the life of the people at but few points compared with the newer call to build home-towns for slum cities; to plant gardens for crowded courts; to construct beautiful water-ways in flooded valleys; to establish a scientific system of distribution to take the place of a chaos, a just system of land tenure for one representing the selfishness which we hope is passing away; to found pensions with liberty for our aged poor, now imprisoned in workhouses; to banish despair and awaken hope in the breasts of those who have fallen; to silence the harsh voice of anger, and to awaken the soft notes of brotherliness and [140] goodwill; to place in strong hands implements of peace and construction, so that implements of war and destruction may drop uselessly down.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir
Feteren , v. to fetter, MD, G; fettren , P; y-fetered , pp. , G; fettred , C2; ifetered , G.—AS. ( ge ) feterian .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew
ANT: Glad, rejoiced, delighted, pleased, gratified, fine, choice, handsome.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows
Nature wants stuff To vie strange forms with fancy; yet t' imagine An Antony were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, Condemning shadows quite.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Proud of their weakness, however, they must always be protected, guarded from care, and all the rough toils that dignify the mind.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft
What is poor plain George Fox compared to William Shakspere—to fancy's lord, imagination's heir?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman
In other places larger sizes are mentioned: In his macerantur res quae infra scriptae sunt, contusae et percribratae grandioribus foraminibus cribri (cclxix).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne
42; used to protect garden from caterpillars, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer
She stood the strain of nursing in sixteen such awful places, going from cot to cot among the thousands of wounded, comforting the dying, and dragging many a man back from the very grave by her untiring, unselfish devotion.
— from The Little Colonel's Hero by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston
Across the brook, she could see the lanterns flickering in the village square and the people gathering for church.
— from Little Tom by Václav Tille
They do not mention, in their meagre accounts of him, the names of his writings, the number of which we, perhaps, glean from casual remarks dropped by Pliny the Younger in his Epistles.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross
Hugh Finlay was Deputy Postmaster General for Canada from 1774 to 1800, when he was succeeded by George Heriot, who wrote a folio of travels on Canada.
— from Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present by Le Moine, J. M. (James MacPherson), Sir
We, perhaps, go from creed to creed, from philosophy to philosophy, from one scientific theory to another scientific theory, but still we hunger.
— from Nuggets of the New Thought: Several Things That Have Helped People by William Walker Atkinson
Glass , 584 - 592 Blowing, 592 Furnaces, 586 - 590 From sand, 380 Glass-galls , 235 ; 221 As a flux, 235 ; 238 ; 243 ; 246 Use in parting gold from copper, 464 Use in smelting gold concentrates, 397 ; 398 Glette ( see Litharge ).
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola
On this it is important to insist, as there are plausible grounds for contrary inferences, which are often drawn.
— from The Evolution of States by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
Co. (PWH); 3May67; R409541. Seven party games for children; rules for playing.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1967 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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