It was clear to Gregor that Grete had not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

3451 Discera was the Im-Zerah of modern travellers, on the road from Sockna to Mourzouk, according to Marcus, who is of opinion that the places which follow were situate at the east and north-east of Thuben and the Black Mountain.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Of late he had received so many new and very serious impressions—such as the retreat from Smolénsk, his visit to Bald Hills, and the recent news of his father’s death—and had experienced so many emotions, that for a long time past those memories had not entered his mind, and now that they did, they did not act on him with nearly their former strength.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

With ruth for suffering creatures filled, A deathlike fiend with might he killed, And gave this southern realm to be A refuge, from oppression free.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Daisy Fraser Did you ever hear of Editor Whedon Giving to the public treasury any of the money he received For supporting candidates for office?
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Women seem to have eyes in their ribbons for such matters as these.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

No more than base; I 'll be mine own example.— On, on, and look thou represent, for silence, The thing thou bear'st.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

The like quantity of Hart’s-tongue, Knotgrass and Comfrey Roots, being boiled in water, and a draught of the decoction drunk every morning, and the materials which have boiled applied to the place, is a notable remedy for such as are bursten.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

11b ætspringan 3 to rush forth, spurt out , B 1121.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

And then the hotel-keeper would go on to show how the Socialists had the only real remedy for such evils, how they alone “meant business” with the Beef Trust.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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— from The Blood Covenant: A Primitive Rite and its Bearings on Scripture by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

,’ says Father Secchi, writing, as just mentioned, in 1872, ‘some lightning conductors had been erected under my direction on the cathedral and on the Bishop’s palace of Alatri, situated at the summit of the Acropolis of that town, which, by its elevated and solitary position, was exposed to frequent ravages from storms.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

There has been a rumor, for the last two or three days, that, notwithstanding all that has been said, there will be an effort to reinforce Fort Sumter; but I do not believe a word of it.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The sea was breaking fearfully in all directions and the vessel rolling from side to side, but Captain Jones and his crew bravely proceeded through the broken water, at the risk of their lives and vessel, and succeeded, at the first attempt, in saving three of the men.
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 2 by Frederick Whymper

This time the tour had lasted nine months, and he had signed on for every run from station to moon-base to pick up the bonuses.
— from The Hoofer by Walter M. Miller

A ce sujet de nouvelles députations se sont présentées à Son Excellence, pour la supplier d’approuver que le peuple de la province du Minho manifestât authentiquement le vœu de déchéance du trône de la maison de Bragance, et qu’en même temps S. M. l’Empereur et roi fût suppliée de désigner un prince de sa maison, ou de son choix, pour régner en Portugal, mais
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

In closest connexion with the church is the group of buildings appropriated to the monastic line and its daily requirements—-the refectory for eating, the dormitory for sleeping, the common room for social intercourse, the chapter-house for religious and disciplinary conference.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Few perhaps would have the courage to express such a wish, and yet to do so would only be to ask for that release from sorrow which a kind Creator almost always extends to us.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

All the impressions and impulses that the soul receives from such a body are beastly and debasing.
— from Food and Morals 6th Edition by J. F. (John F.) Clymer

I did not want to think that," said Rotha, feeling somewhat put in the wrong.
— from The Letter of Credit by Susan Warner