My father and Lavinia shall forthwith Be closed in our household's monument.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

— N. symmetry, shapeliness, finish; beauty &c. 845; proportion, eurythmy[obs3], uniformity, parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral symmetry; centrality &c. 222.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He said ‘Damn!’ as he tumbled; an instant of silence followed upon his screeching: Jim and the skipper staggered forward by common accord, and catching themselves up, stood very stiff and still gazing, amazed, at the undisturbed level of the sea.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

I 'spose free boys can get along here at the north as well as white boys."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

5 —¿Para qué nombras a Dios si no crees en él?—dijo doña Perfecta con solemne acento.—Si creyeras en él, si fueras buen cristiano, no aventurarías pérfidos juicios sobre mi conducta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

For either they must confess (which they fain would not) that the will which leads to our church is good, as well as theirs, who have received and are held by the mysteries of theirs: or they must suppose two evil natures, and two evil souls conflicting in one man, and it will not be true, which they say, that there is one good and another bad; or they must be converted to the truth, and no more deny that where one deliberates, one soul fluctuates between contrary wills.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

= KEY: Shackle \v.\. SYN: Fetter, bind, chain, hamper, harness, impede, [See FETTER].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Flowers are usually put in the finger bowls, a little spray of any sweet-scented flower, but "corsage bouquets" laid at the places with flower pins complete are in very bad taste.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

SYN: Freeze, benumb, congelate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

ays were soon translated into Italian with the title of Saggi Morali del Signore Francesco Bacono, Cavagliero Inglese, Gran Cancelliero d’ Inghilterra .
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

A tidy, well dressed servant, with a lace cap perched on the top of her head, and what the village folk called "sthramers" flying behind, came out of Father Letheby's cottage, and helped to take the furniture within.
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

Next moment came the sharp order to hoist the foretopsail and jib, soon followed by "Cut the cable!"
— from Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Thus she twice prevented the sentence from being carried out, and eventually the prisoner was pardoned.
— from Stories of the Border Marches by Jean Lang

Nevertheless, in the opinion of European statesmen fettered by conventional precedents, our aim would amply justify the Czar in annexing the principality.
— from The Shadow of the Czar by John R. Carling

Do we gather that in this election you speak for both candidates?
— from The Master of Mrs. Chilvers: An Improbable Comedy by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Here should failure be confessed; Ends my quest, Where the wide-winged hawk doth hover!
— from Ballades & Rhymes from Ballades in Blue China and Rhymes a la Mode by Andrew Lang

For the more disciplined and efficient forces, we must look to the Roman school, formed by Corelli, in which were produced the greatest composers and performers for the violin that Italy could boast, during the first half of the 18th century.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

A few minutes after we had cleared the harbour the frigate appeared in sight from behind Cape Fréhel, and half-an-hour later our prize—the H.E.I. Company’s ship, Masulipatam , of 1196 tons register, with a full cargo of Indian produce, homeward-bound from Bombay to London—was hove-to under her lee quarter, while Mr Adair had gone on board to make his report.
— from A Middy of the King: A Romance of the Old British Navy by Harry Collingwood