great quantity, quantity, deal, power, sight, pot, volume, world; mass, heap &c. (assemblage) 72; stock &c. (store) 636; peck, bushel, load, cargo; cartload[obs3], wagonload, shipload; flood, spring tide; abundance &c. (sufficiency) 639.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

There are, however, current notions of particular virtues, which might be called Self-regarding; but yet with respect to which it is not quite clear whether they are merely particular applications of Prudence, or whether they have independent maxims.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He and Tito Pagliardini, another phonetic veteran, were men whom it was impossible to dislike.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

With regard to warlike achievements, Daimachus of Plataea will not even admit that Solon made the campaign against the Megarians, which we have related; but Poplicola both by strategy and personal valour won many great battles.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

It is the present Voice which makes the written Word all-powerful.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

“And the postman very well might.” Josephine thought of her dark-red slippers, which matched her dressing-gown, and of Constantia's favourite indefinite green ones which went with hers.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Virtuous women should keep house; and 'twas well performed and ordered by the Greeks, [6282] ———mulier ne qua in publicum Spectandam se sine arbitro praebeat viro: which made Phidias belike at Elis paint Venus treading on a tortoise, a symbol of women's silence and housekeeping.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When school was over for the day, it was yet early in the summer afternoon; and Mrs. Hepworth proposed to Margaret that she and Mr. Bell should accompany her to the parsonage, and see the—the word 'improvements' had half slipped out of her mouth, but she substituted the more cautious term 'alterations' which the present Vicar was making.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It was obvious that a personal visit was more necessary than he had thought.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

Though not made by the Portuguese, this voyage certainly claims to be inserted in this place, as having a near connection with their affairs; besides which, it serves to complete the information contained in the article next succeeding; as the present voyage was made along the eastern side of the Red Sea, while the other was along its western side: So that the two together give a tolerable account of the whole of that sea; and they are in fact
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

“Between you and me, Faith, I don’t like Mr. Perry very well myself,” said Rosemary, laughing a little—but at Mr. Perry, not at Adam, as Faith clearly understood.
— from Rainbow Valley by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Among the rarer causes of the occurrence of strange bodies in the pharynx and naso-pharyngeal cavity, Jurasz 924 mentions in the first place vomiting, which may afford opportunity for the more solid bodies of the stomach contents, and even parasites of the digestive tract, especially Ascaridæ , to become firmly lodged in the pharyngeal or naso-pharyngeal cavity.
— from The Animal Parasites of Man by Fred. V. (Frederick Vincent) Theobald

The contents of the third or present volume were made also at different intervals in the last two years.
— from More Nonsense by Edward Lear

The hymn-book seeks to embody or awaken religious emotion alone; would its religious value be less if its poetic value were more?
— from Whitman: A Study by John Burroughs

[Pg 22] inferior to their congeners in courage, for the Prince von Wied mentions that the specimen he obtained, though it had been shot through the neck by a large arrow, resisted boldly, both with beak and claws, when he attempted to take possession of it.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 2 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm

It is in this following that the polished veneer which makes the outward Paris showed what may lie beneath.
— from Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell

The old Chief looked down, and observing them drinking and making a noise, he called to them in a loud passionate voice, which made them leave their glasses, and run up the ladder in great terror.
— from Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island by Basil Hall

“Can you tell me where Miss Hamblyn lives?” asked the lady, in a cultured, pleasant voice, which matched her appearance perfectly.
— from Daughters of the Dominion: A Story of the Canadian Frontier by Bessie Marchant

(4) Polar caps are plainly visible which melt in the Martian summer to form again in the Martian winter, thus implying the presence of a substance deposited by cold.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell