Wetamoe was among them at the time, and attempted to make her escape by crossing a neighboring river: either exhausted by swimming or starved with cold and hunger, she was found dead and naked near the water-side.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

III. (±) to raise, exalt, extol , BH .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Texts: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by Bury, 7 vols.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Reflections of the nature of those above may, indeed, establish the belief that to enjoy the present, and to make this the purpose of one's life, is the greatest wisdom ; since it is the present alone that is real, everything else being only the play of thought.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

This war accomplished the abolition of negro slavery, the greatest economic revolution ever effected by a single blow.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Scientific people, however, found the intelligence remarkable enough, even before it became known that the new body was rapidly growing larger and brighter, that its motion was quite different from the orderly progress of the planets, and that the deflection of Neptune and its satellite was becoming now of an unprecedented kind.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Quâ rê commôtus Pompêius ante Caesaris adventum Rômâ excessit et Brundisium 6 pervênit, inde 7 paucîs post diêbus cum omnibus côpiîs ad Êpîrum mare trânsiit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Stein reads {e en Boubasti poli}, "the earth at the city of Bubastis."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

] Note 7 ( return ) [ {exaireomenos}: explained by some "disembarked" or "unloaded."
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Happily, comfort and refinement may be secured without ruinous expenditure, even by the most modest beginners in housekeeping.
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling

So she read every English book she could easily obtain⁠—⁠Shakespeare, Milton, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray⁠—⁠and she took oral lessons in conversational English, which as Andreas justly remarked, would improve her accent, and enable her to sing better in English opera.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

What Dr. Edwards says of San Diego is repeated everywhere else by experts: "San Diego presents the most even climate, the largest proportion of fair, clear days, a sandy and absorbent soil, and the minimum amount of atmospheric moisture—all the factors requisite in a perfect climate."
— from A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn

** The Roman Empire, emblemized by the Eagle, dominated the then known world.
— from Elias: An Epic of the Ages by Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney

The wound proved mortal, and Alp Arslan expired a few hours after he received it, on the 15th of December 1072 See Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, edited by J. B. Bury (1898), vi.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

She had read extensively even before she was sixteen,—letters, essays, biographies, histories, and a number of novels by classic authors; and although she was obliged to read each book three times in order to write it on her memory, she slowly assimilated it and developed her brain cells.
— from The Californians by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I wonder if any man but an American or a British nonconformist in a state of rhetorical excitement ever believed that Shakespeare wrote his plays or Michael Angelo painted in a mood of humanitarian exaltation, " for the good of all men ."
— from An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But a memory, more or less well-stored, is nearly all a youth carries with him from the college to the seminary, and here he enters, as I have already pointed out, upon a course not of intellectual discipline, but of professional studies, whose object is not "to open the mind, to correct it, to refine it, to enable it to know, and to digest, master, rule, and use its knowledge, to give it power over its own faculties, application, flexibility, method, critical exactness, sagacity, resource, eloquent expression," but simply to impart the requisite skill for the ordinary exercise of the holy ministry.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding

IX The heart, mind, soul, and will work together and lead together the reasonable earthly existence; but there is another part of the soul, a higher part, which has its own intelligence, which leads no earthly existence, has no direct recognition of material being; thinks no earth-thoughts, judges by no man-made standards, sins no earth-sins.
— from The Prodigal Returns by Lilian Staveley