"We crawled past Mudie's, and there a tall woman with five or six yellow-labelled books hailed my cab, and I sprang out just in time to escape her, shaving a railway van narrowly in my flight.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Nor wanted lakes of flower-made drink With piles of meat upon the brink, Boiled, stewed, and roasted, varied cheer, Peachick and jungle-fowl and deer, There was the flesh of kid and boar, And dainty sauce in endless store, With juice of flowers concocted well, And soup that charmed the taste and smell, And pounded fruits of bitter taste, And many a bath was ready placed Down by each river's shelving side There stood great basins well supplied, And laid therein, of dazzling sheen, White brushes for the teeth were seen, And many a covered box wherein Was sandal powdered for the skin.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

SYN: Alteration, revision, variation, qualification, species.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

[61] and a skilful and ready verse-maker above all others, which things rendered him so notable and so famous that, albeit he might not everywhere be known by sight, there was well nigh none who knew him not by name and by report.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Nothing, in my opinion, sets the odious selfishness of mankind in such a repulsively vivid light as the treatment, in all classes of society, which the Single people receive at the hands of the Married people.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently.
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

slǽpan , pt. slép ; a reduplicating verb, see Douse, p. 48.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Sidewalk, Hall, And Dressing Rooms One can be pretty sure on seeing a red velvet carpet spread down the steps of a house (or up!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[Pg 399] within the limits allowed by his psychological terms of thought—'put (in an excellent way) the à priori of sensibility into the original identity and multiplicity, and that as transcendental imagination in the "higher power" of an immersion of unity in multiplicity: whilst Understanding (Verstand) he makes to consist in the elevation to universality of this à priori synthetic unity of sensibility,—whereby this identity is invested with a comparative antithesis to the sensibility: and Reason (Vernunft) is presented as a still higher power over the preceding comparative antithesis, without however this universality and infinity being allowed to go beyond the stereotyped formal pure infinity.
— from The Logic of Hegel by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

He drank alone—the more solitary the drinker the more dangerous [Pg 27] the man—yet the room had another occupant, a tall, brawny, brown-hued, grim-faced savage, whose gaudy livery ill accorded with his stern and ruthless visage.
— from Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main by Cyrus Townsend Brady

A Polish count, aged 462 eighteen, devoted himself to the ladies, who pronounced him "a fascinating dear," and a German Serene Something, having come for the supper alone, roamed vaguely about, seeking what he might devour.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

When still further disturbed, it practises a most curious manœuvre: standing in the middle, it violently jerks the web, which is attached to elastic twigs, till at last the whole acquires such a rapid vibratory movement, that even the outline of the spider's body becomes indistinct.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

; at sowing and reaping, vii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

We mingled with the bustling crowd, and watched the native sweetmeat and refreshment vendors going from carriage to carriage, [ 244 ] calling out: “Garm chapati! garm chapati awe dal!”
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

A step to the south from this street, along Rue Vieille-du-Temple, brings us to the massive entrance-doors of 272 No. 47.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

A stipulated aim, which seized the public imagination, was to make the Potomac a model of scenic and recreational values for the entire nation.
— from The Nation's River: A report on the Potomac From the U.S. Department of the Interior by United States. Department of the Interior

A rustic arbor can be made of strips of wood, covered with white cloth, and painted to resemble slats and running vines; the dimensions of which are six feet high, four feet wide, and three feet deep.
— from Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by James H. Head