núka n 1 sore, infection on the skin, not of great size.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Crillon-quotation on page 62 is due to Mr. W. M. Salter (who employed it in a similar manner in the 'Index' for August 24, 1882), and the dream-metaphor on p. 174 is a reminiscence from some novel of George Sand's—I forget which—read by me thirty years ago.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The two examples, so far as I know, which surpass all others, are the single nave of Gerona, seventy-three feet wide in the clear, and the nave and aisles of the Collegiata at Manresa, sixty feet wide from centre to centre of the columns, and a hundred and ten between the walls of the aisles.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street

We know that some Southern men do free their slaves, go north, and become tip-top Abolitionists; while some Northern ones go south and become most cruel slave-masters.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

And of noble race these brothers, nor of strength nor of gold spared aught.
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

The young gold hunter and his partner had discovered several nuggets of good size, enough to make them rich, and were bound back to the mining camp when the villain and his cronies appeared and robbed them.
— from The Rover Boys in Alaska; or, Lost in the Fields of Ice by Edward Stratemeyer