1. W. T. Sherman, Superintendent, and Professor of Engineering, etc.; 2. Anthony Vallas, Professor of Mathematics, Philosophy, etc.; 3. Francis W. Smith, Professor of Chemistry, etc.; 4. David F. Boyd, Professor of Languages, English and Ancient; 5. E. Berti St. Ange, Professor of French and Modern Languages.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The hymns of the Rigveda , of course, vary much in literary merit, as is naturally to be expected in the productions of many poets extending over some centuries.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

For here he strives for the production of the Object by means of the representation alone , from which he can expect no result, because he is conscious that his mechanical powers (if I may so call those which are not psychological) which must be determined by that representation to bring about the Object (mediately) are either not competent, or even tend towards what is impossible; e.g. to reverse the past ( O mihi praeteritos ... etc.), or to annihilate in the impatience of expectation the interval before the wished for moment.—Although in such fantastic desires we are conscious of the inadequacy (or even the unsuitability) of our representations for being causes of their objects, yet their reference as causes, and consequently the representation of their causality , is contained in every wish ; and this is specially evident if the wish is an affection or longing .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The frolic was now come round to me, and it being my turn of subscription to the will and pleasure of my particular elect, as well as to that of the company, he came to me, and saluting me very tenderly, with a flattering eagerness, put me in mind of the compliances my presence there authorized the hopes of, and at the same time repeated to me, "that if all this force of example had not surmounted any repugnance I might have to concur with the humours and desires of the company, that though the play was bespoke for my benefit, and great as his own private disappointment might be, he would suffer any thing, sooner than be the instrument of imposing a disagreeable task.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

“You made one mistake, Adele,” he said, with a light smile; “there is no earthly possibility of Mrs. Pontellier ever taking me seriously.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

The first notice I had of any important change going on in this part of my physical economy was from the reawakening of a state of eye generally incident to childhood, or exalted states of irritability.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

4. The minutest incidents of childhood, or forgotten scenes of later years, were often revived: I could not be said to recollect them, for if I had been told of them when waking, I should not have been able to acknowledge them as parts of my past experience.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

And if it consisted in Pression or Motion, propagated either in an instant or in time, it would bend into the Shadow.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

El personal de servicio está constituido por un mayordomo, porteros, ordenanzas, mensajeros, peones, etc.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

30 Manos-gordas cogió el pergamino, y a la primera ojeada murmuró: (p87) —Estar moro.... —¡Ya lo creo que es árabe!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Adriaen Block wrote, in 1614-16, Nahicans as the name of the people on Montauk Point; Eliot wrote Naiyag ( -ag formative); Roger Williams wrote Nanhigan and Narragan; Van der Donck wrote Narratschoan on the Verdrietig Hoek Mountain on the Hudson; Naraticon appears on the lower Delaware, and Narraoch and Njack (Nyack) are met on Long Island.
— from Footprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: their location and the probable meaning of some of them. by Edward Manning Ruttenber

Unfortunately for this plan of annihilation the screen provided in the commonplace person of Mills proved entirely too flimsy to hide the coming man.
— from The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield by Edward Robins

But courage, the right, hatred of the foreigner, the yearning for vengeance, were to take the place of more perfect engines, and to replace--at least it was hoped so--the modern mitrailleuses and breech-loaders.
— from A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

And I declare that the said Legacy shall be paid free from Legacy Duty, and that the same, and the Legacy Duty thereon, shall be paid exclusively out of such part of my Personal Estate as may be lawfully bequeathed for charitable purposes, and in priority to all other payments thereout."
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

But the mad precipitation of Murat put Europe on the alert, and the brilliant illusion vanished like a dream.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

One of these is "pessum dare," which means literally "to sink to the bottom," but is figuratively used for "destroying" or "ruining," as when Bracciolini in one of his letters says that he is "desirous of guarding against the weight of present circumstances sinking him to the bottom ," that is "ruining him:" "id vellem curare, ne praesentiarum onus me pessumdaret " (Ep.
— from Tacitus and Bracciolini. The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by John Wilson Ross

Among the most pleasant as well as most profitable industries anywhere, I conclude from the notes, are dairying and fruit-growing, and Mr. Oseba thinks that in no country or climate on the upper crust of our planet are these industries more promising or more profitable, especially the former.
— from Mr. Oseba's Last Discovery by George W. (George William) Bell

I turned, and met a pair of mournful, pleading eyes.
— from Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal by Mary Lowell Putnam

Being thus suspended in the air by the rope, and my whole weight hanging on my wrists, I was unable to move any part of my person, except my feet and legs.
— from Fifty Years in Chains; or, the Life of an American Slave by Charles Ball

North ( Christopher ), pseudonym of John Wilson, professor of moral philosophy, Edinburgh, editor of Blackwood’s Magazine , in which appeared the “Noctes Ambrosianæ” (1805-1861).
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer