The door had opened soundlessly and the pale Paul stood like a ghost in the doorway.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

-rs , -rtis Feminines: ars , art ; cohors , cohort ; fors , chance ; mors , death ; pars , part ; sors , lot , N. twice sortis (Plaut.; Ter.).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

mettre , placer; poser sur le corps comme vêtement.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

= KEY: Show, \n.\. SYN: Appearance, exhibition, demonstration, parade, pomp, semblance, likeness, pretext, profession, pretence, illusion.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Leod , sb. a man, also, a tenement, possession, PP, S2; leode , PP; lede , PP, WA; lud , S2; leodes , pl. , PP; leodis , PP; ledes , S2, PP; ledis , PP, WA; leedes , PP, G; ludes , S2.—AS. léod , a prince (Grein).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Perhaps the wind whispered it, perhaps the nightingales sung about it, perhaps something in the great white lily leaves suggested it, perhaps the pale, pure stars looked disapproval; but it happened that the white hand felt the arm, and was clasped in a warm, strong hand—a clasp such as only love gives.
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame

De Selins Watch School, Attica, Ind. ; Detroit Technical Institute—Detroit, Mich. ; Kansas City Watchmaking and Engraving School, Kansas City, Mo. ; Needles Institute of Watchmaking, Kansas City, Mo. ; Bowman Technical School, Lancaster, Pa. ; Ries and Armstrong, Macon, Ga. ; Drexler School for Watchmaking, Milwaukee, Wis. ; Newark Watchmaking School, Newark, N. J. ; Philadelphia College of Horology, Philadelphia, Pa. ; St. Louis Watchmaking School, St. Louis, Mo. ; Schwartzman's Trade Schools, San Francisco, Cal. ; Stone School of Watchmaking, St. Paul, Minn. ; Waltham Horological School, Waltham, Mass. ; Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Ill. Watchmakers' Schools, Switzerland —Usually under government management. Teach very thoroughly and completely the art of making a watch from the beginning.
— from Time Telling through the Ages by Harry Chase Brearley

The Vicomte de Pamiers, it seemed, had permitted himself much that it would serve no purpose to relate here; so remote was it all from our modern manners, in which soul and passion play so large a part, that nobody would believe it.
— from The Jealousies of a Country Town by Honoré de Balzac

Disdainfully was he mentioned in the “Actes des Apotres,” the mocking organ of the Privileged party, so light-heartedly and provocatively edited by a group of gentlemen afflicted by a singular mental myopy.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

“These are very pleasant people,” said Lucifer to Jupiter; “they will divert us.”
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo