And they ever dug deeper in front of the stem, and in the furrow laid polished rollers; and inclined the ship down upon the first rollers, that so she might glide and be borne on by them.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

Thus, in forming an alliance with a political power, religion augments its authority over a few, and forfeits the hope of reigning over all.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Robert awoke with the memory of this dream in his mind, and a sensation of physical relief, as if some heavy weight, which had oppressed him all the night, had been lifted from his breast.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

SYN: Parse, resolve, analyze, interpret, understand, render.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

As I have no estate, I am plagued with no tenants or stewards: my annuity is paid me pretty regularly, as indeed it ought to be; for it is much less than what I might have expected in return for what I gave up.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

tingkù n, v 1 = tagultul 1 , n1, v. 2 pound rice in a mortar at the same time as s.o. else is pounding rice and in rhythm with him.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There are not more than two or three alleged visions of the traditional fairies in the annals of psychical research; and I have met with but few sane and educated persons who profess to have seen phantoms at all resembling the traditional fairy; while phantasms supposed to be of the dead, the dying, and the absent are frequently reported.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

In the next place, he would see in Greece, as among ourselves, magnificent temples consecrated by images in human form, which the Persians regarded as impious; and it is affirmed that the sole motive of Xerxes for commanding the conflagration of the Athenian temples was the belief that it was a superstitious sacrilege to keep confined within narrow walls the Gods, whose proper home was the entire universe.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is our knowledge, however, actually extended in this way by pure practical reason, and is that immanent in practical reason which for the speculative was only transcendent?
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

I hain’t got nary a boy, but if my five gals was sech, I’d want to start a patrol right away in my town.
— from The Boy Scouts Down in Dixie; or, The Strange Secret of Alligator Swamp by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

Still, with these few defects, this parlor rowing apparatus is an excellent contrivance, and, used intelligently and assiduously, ought to bring almost any development a person might reasonably hope for, though its range is hardly as wide as that of these few bits of house apparatus before named, when taken together.
— from How to Get Strong and How to Stay So by William Blaikie

The family of Westfield went back to times past remembering, and it came a little hard to the descendant of such a stock to have to choose his wife from among women who had done time or else to lose that legacy by the help of which alone he could hope to keep up the ancestral castle as a going concern.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914 by Various

attributes, and jewellery of the personage represented, and it was almost entirely {181} used as a ground-work for gilding upon.
— from Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society

[114] L'idée, par exemple, que j'ai de Pierre, est singuliére ou individuelle, et comme l'idêe d'homme est générale par rapport aux idées de noble et de roturier, elle est particuliére par rapport à l'idée d'animal.
— from Practical Education, Volume I by Richard Lovell Edgeworth

They had seen the bride in her starry whiteness and persistently retained an image with a halo round it.
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

During the years I presently describe, these tentative constructions were [p010] renewed at intervals without any satisfactory result, though it became clear from repeated failures, that the motive power at command would not suffice, even for a few seconds’ flight for models of sufficient size to enable a real study to be made of the conditions necessary for successful flight.
— from Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight, Parts I and II Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Volume 27 Number 3, Publication 1948, 1911 by Charles M. (Charles Matthews) Manly

"I had the love of old forms and pleasant rites, and I found them nowhere—found a world all hard lines and harsh lights, without lines, without composition, as they say of pictures, without the lovely mystery of colour....
— from Henry James by Rebecca West

The south, from Puerto Montt in latitude 42° south down to latitude 54° south, is an archipelago of wooded isles with a narrow strip of wooded mountain on the mainland behind, both of them drenched by perpetual rains and inhabited only by a few wandering Indians, with here and there a trading post of white men.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

"That really hasn't a thing to do with the proposition," replied Allen; "it's the talk you buy, and the books are thrown in."
— from The Lever: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt