He kissed the plump mellow yellow smellow melons of her rump, on each plump melonous hemisphere, in their mellow yellow furrow, with obscure prolonged provocative melonsmellonous osculation.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce
You this morning heard him profane the pulpit, pointing me out to popular fanaticism, and I held my peace!
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
Akbar, who was ambitious of being the founder of a new faith as well as kingdom, had tried every creed, Jewish, Hindu, and even made some progress in the doctrines of Christianity, and may have in turn affected those of Zardusht, and assuredly this pyramid possesses more of the appearance of a pyreum than a ‘diwa’; though either would have fulfilled the purport of a beacon.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod
By means of them he redeemed all his pledges, paid most of his bills, and bought a new set of tires for his wheel.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London
t lay claim to praises properly my own.”
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid
Imitation is natural to us, and when it does not raise the Mind to Poetry, Painting, Musick, or other more noble Arts, it often breaks out in Punns and Quibbles.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
To recur to our previous illustration, the process of acquiring language is a practically perfect model of proper educative growth.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
The Thanda Pulayans practice maranakriyas, or sacrifices to certain demons, to help them in bringing about the death of an enemy or other person.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston
The only quarrel I have with her is that so many people push me out with her.
— from Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
On this Creighton called out “Oh God, Oh God, the scholar’s eye is stroke out,” whereon his competitor accused him to the authorities as a profane person who took [ 40 ] God’s name in vain; and as confirmation added that he never came to the private prayer meetings of the students.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball
In London I couldn't understand it when people praised me or said kind things.
— from My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan
A paper read at the London meeting of the Congrès de Bienfaisance, June 13, 1862; a revised and enlarged version of the Privately Printed Memorandum of 1861 (No. 24).
— from The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 2 of 2 by Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir
The penalty for possessing or offering to sell any hare, pheasant, partridge, moor or heath game or grouse by any carrier, innkeeper, victualer, or alehouse keeper is 5 pounds, 1/2 to the informer, and 1/2 to the poor of the parish.
— from Our Legal Heritage: King AEthelbert - King George III, 600 A.D. - 1776 by S. A. Reilly
He himself was repeatedly disabled by severe wounds, and, being captured before Petersburg, passed many of the last months of the war in confinement, suffering from a disease which permanently injured his system and shortened his life.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various
It must be remembered that private property may only be taken by the government for public purposes.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell
At the end of the previous period most of the villages consisted of groups of individual pithouses.
— from Indians of the Mesa Verde by Don Watson
“Please promise me one thing, Sir John,” said Mrs. Haddo.
— from Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School by L. T. Meade
Eight-hour day, trade-union rate of wages, better factory legislation, secular education, annual sessions of Parliament, paid members, one man, one vote, etc.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Various
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