In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Or it may be a standard given a priori , which through the defects of the judging subject is limited by the subjective conditions of presentation in concreto ; as, e.g. in the practical sphere, the greatness of a certain virtue, or of the public liberty and justice in a country; or, in the theoretical sphere, the greatness of the accuracy or the inaccuracy of an observation or measurement that has been made, etc.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

restrained, constrained; imprisoned &c.v.; pent up; jammed in, wedged in; under lock and key, under restraint, under hatches; in swaddling clothes; on parole; in custody, doing time &c. (prisoner) 754; cohibitive[obs3]; coactive &c. (compulsory) 744[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The papers of an examination having been marked, the board of examiners shall ascertain ( a ) The name of every competitor who has, under section 1754 of the Revised Statutes, claim of preference in civil appointments, and who has attained a general average of not less than 65 per cent; and all such competitors are hereby declared eligible to the class or place to test fitness for which the examination was held.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

Synonyms: accompaniment, fact, item, point, concomitant, feature, occurrence, position, detail, incident, particular, situation. event, A circumstance (L. circum , around, and sto , stand), is something existing or occurring in connection with or relation to some other fact or event, modifying or throwing light upon the principal matter without affecting its essential character; an accompaniment is something that unites with the principal matter, tho not necessary to it; as, the piano accompaniment to a song; a concomitant goes with a thing in natural connection, but in a subordinate capacity, or perhaps in contrast; as, cheerfulness is a concomitant of virtue.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

—The sieved clay or paste in creamy liquid condition as used for slip decoration, engobes, or casting.
— from Pottery, for Artists, Craftsmen & Teachers by George James Cox

—The causes of homosexual practices, pp. 465 –471.—Congenital sexual inversion, p. 465 sq. —Absence of the other sex or lack of accessible women, p. 466 sq. —Acquired inversion, pp. 467 –470.—Homosexuality in ancient Greece partly due to the methods of training the youth, p. 469 sq. —Partly due to the great gulf which mentally separated the sexes, p. 470 sq. —Causes of pederasty in China and Morocco, p. 471 .—Moral ideas concerning homosexual practices, pp. 471 –489.—Among uncivilised peoples, pp. 471 –475.—Among the ancient Peruvians, p. 473 sq. —Among the ancient Mexicans, Mayas, and Chibchas, p. 474 .—Among
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

[35] To those who are not quite clear as to what transcendentalism is, the following lucid definition will be welcome: "It is the spiritual cognoscence of psychological irrefragability connected with concutient ademption of incolumnient spirituality and etherealized contention of subsultory concretion."
— from The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Alfred Ayres

The women of Jenna employ themselves generally either in spinning cotton, or preparing Indian corn for food.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

The head of the bay, as well as two portions on either side, consisted of perpendicular ice cliffs of considerable height.
— from Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries by William Henry Giles Kingston

Both in the midst of the long stalk and in the plume of flowers the branching is so fine and the curves rely so intimately upon one another that a simple copy on paper is cool and pensive after the vanity of cultivated curiousness.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas