The principle is so plain and comprehensible as to need no further exemplification.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

I found Sir Percival and Count Fosco sitting together again.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The rebel officers led their men in person to the several persistent assaults, continuing the battle far into the night, when they drew off, beaten and discomfited.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

A sick man now, Sick of serpent's poison, A captive now Who hast drawn the hardest lot: In thine own shaft Bowed as thou workest, In thine own cavern Digging at thyself, Helpless quite, Stiff, A cold corse Overwhelmed with a hundred burdens, Overburdened by thyself, A knower!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Barnacles , spectacles; possibly a corruption of binoculi; but derived by some from the barnacle ( Lepas Anatifera ), a kind of conical shell adhering to ships’ bottoms.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Nalintar siya ug dì na makahinultul ug unsay buhatun, She panicked and couldn’t do what had to be done.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

"After reading," says Pope, "a canto of Spenser two or three days ago to an old lady, between seventy and eighty years of age, she said that I had been showing her a gallery of pictures.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

I am in a wretched village, where I shall pass a considerable time; it is not as good as the great city!
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

"Nothing much," replied Pao Ch'ai; "I simply pant and cough a bit; but after I've taken a pill, I get over it, and it's all gone."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Then fighting Tom jumped up at once, and made a little butt at Watch, as if nothing had ever ailed him, and then set off to a shallow place, and looked for something to nibble at. Further in, and close under the bank, where they had huddled themselves for warmth, we found all the rest of the poor sheep packed, as closely as if they were in a great pie.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

" After two hours of hard work, in which hammer, nails, and stepladder played a considerable part, the library was almost transformed in appearance.
— from Grandfather's Love Pie by Miriam Gaines

The suggestive word had, however, been pronounced, and a clear consciousness of the terms themselves of the social, political, and cultural struggle that was being carried on would have little by little emerged.
— from Theory & History of Historiography by Benedetto Croce

Fanny stood above a medium height, and though she stooped a little at the wool-wheel, and in a ramble on the hills, she presented a comely figure and interesting mien.
— from Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee

As he rounded each corner of the winding road, he gave a derisive shout of triumph; as he safely passed a cart, he gave voice to a yell of defiance.
— from Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories by Henry Seton Merriman

In this series of sermons on "The Wedding Ring" I last Sabbath gave prayerful and Christian advice to men in regard to the selection of a wife, and to-day I give the same prayerful and Christian advice to women in regard to the selection of a husband, but in all these sermons saying much that I hope will be appropriate for all ages and all classes.
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

[135] 'Non magis ad Papam depositio seu remotio pertinet quam ad quoslibet regum prælatos, qui reges suos prout assolent, consecrant et inungunt.' — Letter of Frederick II (lib. i. c. 3).
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

They were even furnished with working dresses, (a canvas frock and trousers,) gratis, at their enlisting, and were afterwards permitted to retain their old uniforms for the same purpose; and care was taken, in all cases where they were employed, that they should be well paid.
— from Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1 by Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von

Among the latter are Saint Pierre at Caen and Saint Eustache at Paris (1532-1637),
— from Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward