We hear, for instance, that Greek religion was frivolous, because its mystic awe and momentous practical and poetic truths escape the Christian historian accustomed to a catechism and a religious morality; and similarly Catholic piety seems to the Protestant an æsthetic indulgence, a religion appealing to sense, because such is the only emotion its externals can awaken in him, unused as he is to a supernatural economy reaching down into the incidents and affections of daily life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Catherine was saved the embarrassment of attempting an answer by the entrance of the general, whose smiling compliments announced a happy state of mind, but whose gentle hint of sympathetic early rising did not advance her composure.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

A street Enter RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, solus GLOUCESTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

SYN: Expostulate, remonstrate, denounce, repudiate, deprecate, affirm, aver, assure.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

When a driver boasts of his skill and bravery the other drivers say, “And when didst thou see the elephants dance?” Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the silver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

El silencio era profundo, e interrumpíanle sólo el ruido de nuestra cabalgata
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Soft fall the February snows, and deep, Like downy pinions from the moulting breast Of all the mothering sky, round his hushed sleep, Flutter a million loves upon his rest, Where once his well-loved flowers were fain to peep, With adder-tongue and waxen petals prest, In young spring evenings reddening down the west.
— from Beyond the Hills of Dream by Wilfred Campbell

"Somebody else?" repeated Dorothy.
— from The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl

2. Abridge, abbreviate, shorten, epitomize, reduce, diminish, contract, curtail.
— from A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology by Richard Soule

But I see no reason whatever to expect equality or freedom to result from such a system, except reasons derived from a false psychology and a mistaken analysis of the sources of political power.
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

And catching hold of the coverlet, he stripped everything right down to the foot.
— from The New Forest Spy by George Manville Fenn