In this way all sedition is prevented, if this can be made intelligible, and it be understood what is the proper definition of justice.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

al anochecer, almost at nightfall y abajo en la portería and she is probably in the estará: yo os la enviaré, gatehouse; I will send her to you que estoy de vela esta noche. since I’m on watch tonight.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

A tender cocoanut is opened at one end, and the body of the snake is put into the cocoanut, which, after being closed, is buried in a miry place, and allowed to remain [ 97 ] there until the body decays, and the water in the cocoanut becomes saturated with the products of decomposition.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Vaniére sang its praises in the eighth book of his Praedium rusticum ; and Fellon, a Jesuit professor of Trinity College, Lyons, wrote a didactic poem called, Faba Arabica, Carmen , which is included in the Poemata didascalica of d'Olivet.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Why,” replied Monte Cristo, “since we mutually understand each other—for such I presume is the case?” Danglars bowed assentingly.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Many testified that a witch, since gone from the village, none know whither, did foretell, and speak it privately in their ears, that the sick man would die by poison —and more, that a stranger would give it—a stranger with brown hair and clothed in a worn and common garb; and surely this prisoner doth answer woundily to the bill.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Clever, pretty, coquettish, correct, and a real Parisian, and protected by Madame Roguin's lover, Ferdinand du Tillet, Mathilde-Melanie Tiphaine reigned supreme in Provins, in the midst of the Guenee family, represented by Mesdames Galardon, Lessourd, Martener, and Auffray; took in, or, rather, defended Pierrette Lorrain; and overwhelmed the Rogron salon with her spirit of raillery.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

[pg 106] the function of human speech, seeing that, by its own greatness, it so consists in invisible and unsearchable eternity, that no keenness of wit can comprehend or express how great it is; yet inasmuch as His Humanity, having opened the doors of the heart to receive Himself, mercifully, by secret inspiration, puts into the minds of men such things as It reveals concerning Itself, 218 we have thought fit to extend our episcopal care so far as to make known to you the fulness of the Christian faith; to the end that, bringing to your knowledge the Gospel of Christ, which our Saviour commanded should be preached to all nations, we might offer to you the cup of the means of salvation.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

, 194 note 1, 470 , 471 , 470 notes 1 and 2, 473 ; ( Social Statics ), 18 note 2, 194 note 1; ( Data of Ethics ), 18 note 2, 177 note 1, 194 note 1, 470 note 1 “Sphere of individual option” determined by Utilitarian calculation, 477-479 Spinoza, 90 Stephen, Leslie, 319 Note, 471 , 471 note 2, 472 , 473 ; ( Science of Ethics ), 42 note 1, 471 Stewart, Dugald, 454 , 455 ; ( Philosophy of the Active and Moral Powers ), 92 note 2, 454 note 1 Stoic system, its place in the development of ethical thought, 106 ; ethics, circular reasonings of, 376 , 377 Stoicism, later compared with earlier, 376 note 1 Stoics, 92 , 105 , 129 Stout, G. F., 180 note 2, 182 , 186 ; ( Analytic Psychology ), 182 note 1 Subjective, cf.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

When the time before or after which anything occurs is denoted by a substantive, the substantive is put in the accusative with ante or post : as, paulō ante tertiam vigiliam , 7, 24, 2, a little before the third watch .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

For a moment indeed the wherry rolled and dipped as I snatched up the sculls; but I quickly got her in hand, and, bending to my work, sent her spinning through the mist, every stroke I pulled increasing the distance between us and our now unseen foes.
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman

"You may think me a weathercock," he said rather sheepishly to Mr. Montgomery, "but when I make up my mind that a thing is desirable I put my whole strength into putting it through.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Recollect the allocation of distinguished heads as they are to be seen in plaster in the English and German museums.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

The Eleventh Stone of the Breastplate For reasons stated the Sapir is placed in the eleventh division of the Breastplate instead of the SHOHAM, and we thus have complete harmony between the eleventh sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, the eleventh division of the Breastplate and the Sapir stone which is translated as Sapphire in the Hebrew Bible, the Authorized Version, the Vulgate; as Lapis Lazuli or Sapphire by Mr. Wodiska; and as Lapis Lazuli by Dr. Hirsch, Rev. J. R. Dummelow, and others.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

"I came from that direction," said Itajung, pointing in the way he had last approached.
— from A Treasury of Eskimo Tales by Clara Kern Bayliss