They are divided into two exogamous classes, one of which is regarded as inferior to the other, and performs purificatory ceremonies for the caste.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The place was a moment of chaos perpetuated, persisting, chaos fixed and rigid.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

With the present stem in a nasalized root followed by -o | e- ( 831 ). pangō , fix pangere pepigī , agreed pāctus In meaning, the perfect pepigī corresponds to pacīscor ; pānxit , made , set in verse (Enn.), pānxerit , set (Col.), pēgit (Pac.), pēgerit (Cic.), fixed , once each.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The sky was black with naval vessels and private and public pleasure craft, flying long streamers of gay-colored silks, and banners and flags of odd and picturesque design.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

No new election of magistrates having taken place, private persons came forth as decemvirs, without any abatement either in their determination to enforce their authority, [140] or any diminution in the emblems employed to make a parade of their station.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Nay there is a poor practical Chevalier Favras who, not without some passing reflex on Monsieur himself, gets hanged for them, amid loud uproar of the world.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The early days of coffee culture in Abyssinia and Arabia—Coffee cultivation in general—Soil, climate, rainfall, altitude, propagation, preparing the plantation, shade and wind breaks, fertilizing, pruning, catch crops, pests, and diseases—How coffee is grown around the world—Cultivation in all the principal producing countries F or the beginnings of coffee culture we must go back to the Arabian colony of Harar in Abyssinia, for here it was, about the fifteenth century, that the Arabs, having found the plant growing wild in the Abyssinian highlands, first gave it intensive cultivation.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

phantasm, phantom &c. (fallacy of vision) 443. pageant, spectacle; peep-show, raree-show, gallanty-show; ombres chinoises[Sp]; magic lantern, phantasmagoria, dissolving views; biograph[obs3], cinematograph, moving pictures; panorama, diorama, cosmorama[obs3], georama[obs3]; coup de theatre, jeu de theatre[Fr]; pageantry &c. (ostentation) 882; insignia &c. (indication) 550. aspect, angle, phase, phasis[obs3], seeming; shape &c. (form) 240; guise, look, complexion, color, image, mien, air, cast, carriage, port, demeanor; presence, expression, first blush, face of the thing; point of view, light.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Here, too, I have discovered such a snug, comfortable place, which possesses peculiar charms for me.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The father of Liszt has recorded that at this time the child was but three years old, but after taking off the proper per cent for the pride of a fond parent, the probabilities are the boy was five.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

All told, when Martinez and Pollock presently came from the store with guns, the little party numbered eleven.
— from In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

There we found a number of Indians, and the party pitched camp for a few days.
— from Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown by James S. (James Stephens) Brown

The lower valley of the Soco is barren of scenic interest, yet these metamorphosed representatives of a primitive population cannot fail to occupy the attention of the tourist.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

But the crow never had; and the three were standing beside the bed in mute dismay, when suddenly a light flutter of wings was heard, and a soft voice cooed, "Toto! Bruin!" and the next moment Pigeon Pretty came flying into the cave, with a bunch of dried leaves in her bill.
— from Toto's Merry Winter by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

The gratification of their aim begat disgust, as usually happens; so few gave in their names that Volscian colonists were added to fill up the number: the rest of the people preferred clamouring for land in Rome, rather than receive it elsewhere.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy