Rider , a supplementary clause in a document.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

But alas, those notional divines, however condemned by the soberer judgment of others, are yet mightily pleased with themselves, and are so laboriously intent upon prosecuting their crabbed studies, that they cannot afford so much time as to read a single chapter in any one book of the whole bible.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

He looked round as she came in, smiled, and quietly gave her his chair, and then sat down afresh as quickly as possible, and with a little bow of apology to his guest for the interruption.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Come to think of it, I do not recall a similar case in all history or fiction.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The court seemed to remain neutral, and persuaded as I was that should the society receive a severe check it would not come from the parliament, I saw in the inaction of government the ground of their confidence and the omen of their triumph.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Subject matter is then regarded as something complete in itself; it is just something to be learned or known, either by the voluntary application of mind to it or through the impressions it makes on mind.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

If I had my way, now,” she said, looking reproachfully at St. Clare, “I’d send that child out, and have her thoroughly whipped; I’d have her whipped till she couldn’t stand!”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

[275] From Charles A. Ellwood, "Religion and Social Control," in the Scientific Monthly , VII (1918), 339-41.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

It is not an obligation on the part of a Mason, to the institution at large, but is in reality a special contract, in which the only parties are a particular lodge and its members,
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He therefore that willingly and wittingly doth lie, is impious in that he doth receive, and so commit injustice: but he that against his will, in that he disagreeth from the nature of the universe, and in that striving with the nature of the world he doth in his particular, violate the general order of the world.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The intense nationality of their life required a similar character in their plays, and likewise in the places where they were to be represented.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3 I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

All rocks and soils contain iron, but it is mainly in the form of the peroxide, in which state it is entirely insoluble, and hence cannot be soaked out of the soil by the rain-water and concentrated by the evaporation of the water at lower levels in ponds and marshes, as a soluble substance like salt would be.
— from Common Minerals and Rocks by William O. (William Otis) Crosby

Ergo ubi collecti proceres, qui rebus in artis consulerent tantisque darent solacia morbis, 355 obliti subito Phrygiae bellisque relictis ad solitos coepere iocos et iurgia circi tendere.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

“Yes, I do know—I mean I suppose so—you really are such chums, I know——” “And I hope and trust the day’s coming when such a thing can be without nasty prurient minds ‘drawing their own conclusions,’ as you call it, Dorothy!...
— from Gray youth: The story of a very modern courtship and a very modern marriage by Oliver Onions

"Sire, the cowardice of your brother has ruined all;" so Charette is said to have written to Louis XVIII.]— But the pretender to the crown of France had not yet drained his cup of misfortune.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

When the wheat has stood for cutting until very ripe, and shattered considerably in the gathering, the seed thus scattered over the field has been harrowed under, and yielded twenty bushels to the acre, of {101} good merchantable grain.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

When she had closed the door of the second room, as she called it, he felt at last in real possession of her.
— from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James