Thence to my Lord’s lodgings thinking to find Mr. Moore, in order to the sending away my letter of reproof to my Lord, but I do not find him, but contrary do find my Lord come to Court, which I am glad to hear and should be more glad to hear that he do follow his business that I may not have occasion to venture upon his good nature by such a provocation as my letter will be to him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

1.3. Χάραξ, ακος, ὁ, ἡ, (fr. same) a stake, a pale; a military palisade, rampart, formed from the earth thrown out of the ditch and stuck with sharp stakes or palisades, Lu. 19.43.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

She was hungry and she poked her finger eagerly in the pot to see if her brussels sprouts and potatoes and meat were ready.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But remember that to yield means to sacrifice strength and power and manliness.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The All-Jewish Mark on "Red Russia" XX. Jewish Testimony in Favor of Bolshevism "Among the distinguishing mental and moral traits of the Jews may be mentioned: distaste for hard or violent physical labor; a strong family sense and philoprogenitiveness; a marked religious instinct; the courage of the prophet and martyr rather than of the pioneer and soldier; remarkable power to survive in adverse environments, combined with great ability to retain racial solidarity; capacity for exploitation, both individual and social; shrewdness and astuteness in speculation and money matters generally; an Oriental love of display and a full appreciation of the power and pleasure of social position; a very high average of intellectual ability."
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Rain, exposure at dewfall on the searocks, a peccadillo at my time of life.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

According to another system, a purely arbitrary meaning is put upon the subject-matter of the dream, or, at most, some slight analogy is the basis of the interpretation.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Taken as a doubtful possibility, it affords a standpoint, a platform, a method of inquiry.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Therefore, I think, being ambitions and vehement and numerous, and speaking systematically and persuasively about me, they have filled your ears, for a long time and diligently calumniating me.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

You do not get it in the South; there is flattery for you, and sneering, and praise as much too high as blame is too cruel—but no candid, quiet judgments.
— from Gloria Mundi by Harold Frederic

[670] However, we do not take this word in the same sense as Preuss and Marrett.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

He had distributed cartridges, doubled the sentries, appointed patrols, and marked all the posts along the outworks.
— from The Invasion of France in 1814 by Erckmann-Chatrian

" For the rest, I have carefully kept in view the duty of the historian, which is—I take it—that he should tell his story in as accurate, straightforward, and pleasant a manner as he can.
— from The History of Mendelssohn's Oratorio 'Elijah' by F. G. (Frederick George) Edwards

Even Alex, although she had been scolded and punished and made the subject of innumerable homilies, some of them pityingly reproachful, and others explanatorily so, on the same question, felt as though she had never before realized the extent of her own perversion.
— from Consequences by E. M. Delafield

When Alexander the Great derived no pleasure from a comedy of this sort which its author read before him, the poet excused himself by saying that the fault lay not with him, but with the king; that, in order to relish such a piece, a man must be in the habit of holding revels and of giving and receiving blows in an intrigue.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

Even Soubise thought that, with the odds of over five to one in his favour, he could fight a battle with a certainty of success; and planned a masterly march, by which he would place himself on Frederick's left and rear, drive him into the bend made by the Saale, and annihilate his army.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The Procession wound down through the paths, over bridges and under tunnels, singing and playing and marching and dancing madly, while Forrester, at its head, caroused as merrily as any four of them.
— from Pagan Passions by Randall Garrett