Port, please, Dad. BARTHWICK.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

SYN: Tract, essay, paper, pamphlet, disquisition, brochure, dissertation, tractate, monograph, article.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

A series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County Court House boot-black stand.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Bird-shaped receptacles, formerly used for containing rice for presentation purposes during betrothal, the bird at the bottom representing a peacock ( mĕrak ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

coquetry; vacillation &c. 605; backsliding; volte-face[Fr]. turn coat, turn tippet|; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I never thought money so desirable as it is usually imagined; if you would enjoy you must transform it; and this transformation is frequently attended with inconvenience; you must bargain, purchase, pay dear, be badly served, and often duped.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The standard regulation of pressure (potential difference between leads) in the district is often determined by the pressure at the end of the feeder.
— from The Standard Electrical Dictionary A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice of Electrical Engineering by T. O'Conor (Thomas O'Conor) Sloane

He and his court are as much shunned by the educated classes as they were three years ago; we still repeat "que ça ne peut pas durer," but we repeat it with less conviction.'
— from Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 by Nassau William Senior

Tongues wagged in gossip over personages perhaps dead by this time, and sage opinions settled questions that had long since passed from the minds of men in the glamourous cities of far-off civilization.
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan

, 199-210 , 218 ; a follower of Fouquet, 197 ; history of, 199 , 202-210 Perugino, 135 Petit-Château, 6 , 123 Philip II, King of Spain, and the Princesse de Condé, 14 Philip le Beau, portrait of, 208 Philippe Augustus, illustrations of events in his life in Chronique de France , 182 Philippe Egalité, portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 134 ; by Fleury, 137 ; by Vernet, 266 Philobiblon Miscellanies , The, 164 Pichius, Albertus, The Gallic War , 157 Pichon, Baron, his collection, 246 Pierre des Iles, known as “Macon” of Chantilly, 8 Pisanello, 131 Pisseleu, Jossine (niece of Duchesse d’Estampes), portraits of, 227 , 234 Pitt, William, reception in England of Louise de Condé, 110 Pius V, Pope, and Cardinal Odet de Coligny, 237 Plaisir Pastoral , by Watteau, 258 Pluto and Proserpine plucking Daffodils , by Chapu, 276 Poitiers, Castle of, in Calendar of Months, 170 Poitiers, Diane de (mistress of Henri II), intimate friend of Anne de Montmorency, 7 , 230 ; portraits of, 141 , 240 , 241 ; her beautiful daughter “Brasseu,” 228 ; reception at Lyons, 231 Poliziano, writer of sonnets on Simonetta Vespucci, 146 Pollaiuolo, Antonio, 146 Pompadour, Mme.
— from Chantilly in History and Art by Luise Richter

Madame Soudry, respectfully imitating Mademoiselle Laguerre, began by allowing herself a “mere touch of rouge”; but this delicate tint had changed through force of habit to those vermilion patches picturesquely described by our ancestors as “carriage-wheels.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I saw once more the Buboli gardens, beside the Pitti Palace, designed by Tribolo and Buontalenti.
— from My Recollections by Jules Massenet

And she came to the conclusion that, after all, she preferred a small, up-country place, with a few cultured, agreeable European inhabitants—provided that they harmonized with one another and did not quarrel overmuch in the intimacy of their common life—to this pretentious, pompous, dreary Batavia.
— from The Hidden Force: A Story of Modern Java by Louis Couperus

Their band was variously composed, consisting either of two harps, with the single pipe and flute; of the harp and double pipe, frequently with the addition of the guitar; of a fourteen-stringed harp, a guitar, lyre, double pipe, and tambourine; of two harps, sometimes of different sizes, one of seven, the other of four strings; of two harps of eight strings, and a seven-stringed lyre; of the guitar, and the square or oblong tambourine; of the lyre, harp, guitar, double pipe, and a sort of harp, with four strings, which was held upon the shoulder; of the harp, guitar, double pipe, lyre, and square tambourine; of the harp, two guitars, and the double pipe; of the harp, two flutes, and a guitar; of two harps and a flute; of a seventeen-stringed lyre, the double pipe, and a harp of fourteen strings; of the harp and two guitars; or of two seven-stringed harps and an instrument held in the hand, not unlike an Eastern fan, to which were probably attached small bells, or pieces of metal that emitted a jingling sound when shaken, like the crescent-crowned bells of our modern bands; besides many [Pg 79] other combinations of these various instruments; and in the Bacchic festival of Ptolemy Philadelphus, described by Athenæus, more than 600 musicians were employed in the chorus, among whom were 300 performers on the kithara ."
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman

Vegetab. of Linnæus ; ten in the Hortus Kewensis of Mr. Aiton ; in which last work only, the present plant, distinguished by the whiteness of its stalks and of the underside of its leaves, is described, and in which we are informed, that it is a native of the Cape, from whence it was introduced by Mr. Masson in 1774.
— from The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 06 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed by William Curtis