Shiro's ready vocabulary of peculiar but sonorous words failed him completely, and he bent himself double in a bow, his yellow face wreathed in the widest possible smile.
— from The Skylark of Space by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

“The seemingly conservative attitude he adopted in his emendation of the Missal, and his refusal to undertake a thorough reconstruction of divine worship led to many ‘Lutherans’ in the 16th, and again in the 19th century, entertaining questionable views on the specific religious value of public worship, its object and its practice.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

There was a sort of languid grace, an indolent elegance about all he did, that when the stroke required vigor or power made me tremble for the result; but somehow he imparted the exact amount of force needed, and the balls moved about here and there as though obedient to some subtle instinct of which the cue gave a mere sign.
— from That Boy Of Norcott's by Charles James Lever

If we say Venus is a planet whose orbit is inside the Earth's , the subject, 'Venus,' [Pg 30] is a word used categorematically as a simple term; the predicate is a composite term whose constituent words (whether substantive, relative, verb, or preposition) are used syncategorematically.
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

Of the remains of the Phœnician era, we may perhaps specify the ANCIENT TEMPLES, one of which, the Ship Temple near Dundalk, is attributed by Vallancey to that people, or else to the sea rovers, Victi , or Picts , who paid divine honours to the form of a ship; but Governor Pownal supposed it to be the work of the Nani , a northern or Scandinavian nation.
— from The Scientific Tourist through Ireland in which the traveller is directed to the principal objects of antiquity, art, science & the picturesque by Thomas Walford

The young wife sat by his side, hour after hour, with patient love; often cheering him with her soft, rich voice, or playing upon the lyre he had fashioned for her in happier days.
— from Philothea: A Grecian Romance by Lydia Maria Child

[Henrique SALAS Romer] Vietnam only party - Communist Party of Vietnam or CPV
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

This revived the spirit of the royalists, and they speedily reduced various other places in the north-west.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Roman Invasion to the Wars of the Roses by Anonymous

We must observe, however, that since the soul requires variety of parts, its relation to the whole is not the same as its relation to the parts; for to the whole it is compared primarily and essentially, as to its proper and proportionate perfectible; but to the parts, secondarily, inasmuch as they are ordained to the whole.
— from Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint