Sometimes, however, they are more or less the same: as, mīlitum pars , part of the soldiers ( 1242 ); magna multitūdō perditōrum hominum , a perfect swarm of desperadoes ( 1255 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

A thrill of hatred struck to Mr. Winkle’s heart, as Bob Sawyer inflicted on the proffered hand a perceptible squeeze.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

wound, stab, pierce, maim, lame, surbate|, cripple, hough[obs3], hamstring, hit between wind and water, scotch, mangle, mutilate, disfigure, blemish, deface, warp. blight, rot; corrode, erode; wear away, wear out; gnaw, gnaw at the root of; sap, mine, undermine, shake, sap the foundations of, break up; disorganize, dismantle, dismast; destroy &c. 162. damnify &c. (aggrieve) 649[obs3]; do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

One would have pronounced her a poor sinful soul, being tortured by Satan beneath the scarlet wicket of hell.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Prue had a peculiar scowling expression of countenance, and a sullen, grumbling voice.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

And there is a spiritual principle here, a principle still valid for every priest of the Most High God.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

He greeted Count Reynaurd very cordially, for he had often met him at the games of Toulouse, and the little pages Henri and Pierrot soon became the best of friends also.
— from Troubadour Tales by Evaleen Stein

"The fact is the pickings here are pretty small."
— from The Just and the Unjust by Vaughan Kester

Each person has a patron spirit, and these must always be placated lest misfortune come.
— from Ethnology of the Ungava District, Hudson Bay Territory Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1889-1890, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1894, pages 159-350 by Lucien M. (Lucien McShan) Turner

The key to the true idealism lies, he claims, in the Critical problem, how a priori synthetic judgments can be possible.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

The chronicler expressly assigns the function to the Levites, and does not recognise that the “schools of the prophets” had any permanent significance for the religion of Israel, possibly because they chiefly appear in connection with the northern kingdom.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

The detail of this masterpiece of the latest phase of Gothic architecture is almost bewildering, but the ornament in every place has a purpose, so that the whole mass of detail has a reposeful dignity which can only have been retained by the most consummate skill.
— from Normandy, Illustrated, Part 1 by Gordon Home

Christianity, as we have seen, had elements in it which gave it a decisive advantage; its outlook was historical, not cosmic, and consequently admitted a non-natural future for the individual and for the Church; it was anti-political and looked for progress only in that region in which progress was at that time possible, in the private soul; it was democratic, feminine, and unworldly; its Oriental deity and prophets had a primitive simplicity and pathos not found in pagan heroes or polite metaphysical entities; its obscure Hebrew poetry opened, like music, an infinite field for brooding fancy and presumption.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana