Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

When he had shewn the utmost Fondness for his Expedition against the Romans, Cyneas his chief Minister asked him what he proposed to himself by this War?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

anislag n k.o. shrub or small tree used for firewood: Securinaga flexuosa .† anistisya n anesthesia.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

, Cut the bamboo into slats to use for fencing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'Tis often seen Adoption strives with nature, and choice breeds A native slip to us from foreign seeds.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A Fabian tract, for instance, says: "We have said that universal free feeding appears to be the only way in which the evil of improper (as distinct from insufficient) feeding can be removed.
— from British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals by J. Ellis Barker

Behind, it is filled with chopped straw, the usual food for horses.
— from Constantinople and the Scenery of the Seven Churches of Asia Minor Series One and Series Two in one Volume by R. (Robert) Walsh

To this Sir Edward Grey replied that “the British government have no intention of advising their merchant shipping to use foreign flags as a general practice or resort to them otherwise than for escaping capture or destruction.”
— from The Story of the Submarine by Farnham Bishop

It is believed that, if not in every case, certainly very many of the private agreements had the approval of the Miners' Executive, for some of these negotiations were conducted personally by their staff, who had the strong motive in thus 149 keeping their constituents employed at the best wages they could obtain for them, of saving the Union funds from supporting every man, who, under the rules of the Association, was entitled to support when thrown out of employment.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

"I can't stand by and see the Union flag fired upon without shooting back."
— from With Sully into the Sioux Land by Joseph Mills Hanson

The leaves of a season will sprout, expand, and wither; and the dry foliage will be pushed off by the propulsion of new buds; but this last change is not effected in them, until they have absorbed the light and dews of heaven for the nourishment of the plant that bore them; and when even they shall have fallen to the earth, they will farther supply its spreading roots with fresh soil for its future growth and healthy developement; and entering into new combinations, will re-appear in the same tree under fresh forms of usefulness and symmetry.
— from The Life of Sir Humphrey Davy, Bart. LL.D., Volume 2 (of 2) by John Ayrton Paris

"Now I think that all is well, Redwald," the abbot said, "and every mile from the English shore takes us further from danger."
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

[60] that both the sisters were for some time under Fra Filippo's roof.
— from Filippo Lippi by Paul G. (Paul George) Konody

Then againe, by the same quotient, or side 3, I multiply 24: my divisour, and I make 72; which I place under 72, the two figures of my Dividende: Lastly I subtract the under figures, from the upper, and there is likewise nothing remaining: Wherefore I say, as afore; that the figurate 15129 given, is a square: And the side thereof is 123.
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

The Men of the Barrows 87 Valedictory 92 [1] Stonehenge, Today—Looking West. STONEHENGE: TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY STONEHENGE SUMMARISED ToC USEFUL FACTS, FOR THE ATTENTION OF VISITORS
— from Stonehenge, Today and Yesterday by Frank Stevens