the crucifix is all that's left To her, of freedom and her sons bereft; And on her royal robe foul marks are seen Where Russian hectors' scornful feet have been.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The youth, hearing his own name mentioned, lifted up his eyes, and at once recognising the other to be a gentleman who had been a captain in his father's regiment, ran forwards, and embraced him with great affection.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

While the ritual remains fixed, the aesthetic element, only accidentally connected with it, expands with the freedom and mobility of the things of the intellect.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

ANT: restore, reinstate, repair, fabricate, make, construct, create.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The secret of the matter, I believe to be this—we feel the gentlemanly character present to us, whenever, under all the circumstances of social intercourse, the trivial not less than the important, through the whole detail of his manners and deportment, and with the ease of a habit, a person shows respect to others in such a way, as at the same time implies in his own feelings an habitual and assured anticipation of reciprocal respect from them to himself.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Moreover, when the Siamese representative of the king is guiding the plough, the people watch him anxiously, not to see whether he drives a straight furrow, but to mark the exact point on his leg to which the skirt of his silken robe reaches; for on that is supposed to hang the state of the weather and the crops during the ensuing season.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

For this reason, the definition of such conceptions as generality, totality, and ultimateness is most readily reached from the side of the disposition toward the world which they connote.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

[1217] the uncovered and protruding eyeballs are fixed on the object of terror; or they may roll restlessly from side to side, huc illuc volvens oculos totumque pererrat .
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Nevertheless, one hundred and forty pounds, to which was added the dignity that comes of good living and universal respect, enabled him to carry himself in right royal fashion.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

But if thou strive, poor soul, what are thou then? Food for his rage, repasture for his den.' PRINCESS.
— from Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare

He was delighted to have me always at his table to entertain him and his guests, but he had not the slightest real regard for me, or care for my interests.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 02 Popular Tales by Maria Edgeworth

The Systems of Bright Rays , radiating from certain craters, remain the most enigmatic of the features of lunar scenery.
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie

The real reason for the depression against which he was struggling is, however, clearer in other letters dating from that time.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

An indecisive battle with the generals of Valens (377) was followed by a crushing Roman defeat in the succeeding year (August 9, 378) at Adrianople, where [viii] Valens himself, but recently returned from his Persian war, lost his life.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

However, the day of unfenced pasture ground is past; and in reselling ranches for farms, many English investors have multiplied their fortunes.
— from The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. Laut

The river Roanoke for a long distance runs near the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Then the principle of Light and Good overcomes that of Darkness and Evil, and the world rejoices, redeemed from cold and wintry darkness by the beneficent Sign into which the Sun then enters triumphant and rejoicing, after his resurrection.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

Yet notwithstanding the exclusive and aristocratic spirit of this long- established class, it has always been ready to receive recruits from the ranks of the people.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery