The term is derived from the same Greek word [pi rho alpha gamma mu alpha], meaning action, from which our words 'practice' and 'practical' come.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

The palpitating greyness grew darker; then—though I was still travelling with prodigious velocity—the blinking succession of day and night, which was usually indicative of a slower pace, returned, and grew more and more marked.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[5] M iss V iolet , P rimrose , and gay M arygold , W ith their L adies’ F ingers her train did uphold.
— from A Flower Wedding Described by Two Wallflowers by Walter Crane

Down came a torrent into my cabin, destroying in a minute all the freshness and coquetry of the pretty lace curtains and pink ribbons, and giving me and all my belongings a thorough bath.
— from Turkish Harems & Circassian Homes by Andrée Hope

The corner-stone was laid July fourth, 1793, the ceremony being conducted by the Freemasons, Paul Revere, as Grand Master, at their head.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

Their representatives could wear hair shirts, or purple robes and golden mitres, as best suited the needs of the occasion.
— from English Lands, Letters and Kings, vol. 1: From Celt to Tudor by Donald Grant Mitchell

Or how Strasbourg itself, in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables, made a little gallery of quaint and interesting views; or how a crowd was gathered inside the cathedral at noon, to see the famous mechanical clock in motion, striking twelve.
— from Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens

The king said to the people: "God made you peasants and me a king; He clothed you in rags and housed you in hovels; upon me He put robes and gave me a palace."
— from Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I Including His Answers to the Clergy, His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc. by Robert Green Ingersoll

The valley framed by mountains of purplish gray, dull brown, with patches of vivid green and yellow; a solitary gray peak, barren and rocky, in sharp contrast to the rich Californian hills; on one side fawn-coloured slopes, and slopes with groves of crouching oaks in their hollows; opposite and beyond the cold peak, a golden hill rising to a mount of earthy green; still lower, another peak, red and green, mulberry and mould; between and afar, closing the valley, a line of pink-brown mountains splashed with blue.
— from The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton