So under fiery cope together rushed Both battles main, with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

So under fierie Cope together rush'd Both Battels maine, with ruinous assault And inextinguishable rage; all Heav'n Resounded, and had Earth bin then, all Earth Had to her Center shook.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

If he take a meal with you, he waits to see how you make use of the implements on the table, and the manner in which you eat, which he imitates with a grave decorum, as if he had been accustomed to the same usages from childhood.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

The two chariots, however, by some unfortunate fatality continued abreast.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

169 Right and left hand factions, 222 Rings worn as amulets, 95 , 191 , 192 , 193 ; as vow, 161 Roller or blue jay, 88 , 279 –80 Russell’s viper, 98 Sahavāsi, 102 Sakti, 220 Sakuna Pakshi, 104 , 279 Sālagrāma stone, 288 Saliva, 27 , 98 , 248 Salt, 28 , 115 , 116 , 118 , 146 Sandal ( Santalum ), 20 , 41 , 120 , 123 , 222 , 251 , 293 Sandals offered to deity, 157 –8, 160 Sand-snake ( Eryx ), 97 –8 Sanyāsi, 159 , 219 , 269 Sarasvati, 174 , 276 Savara, 33 , 73 , 75 , 155 , 164 , 165 , 189 , 262 Scorpion, 20 , 82 , 102 –5, 192 Sēdan, 144 Sembadavan, 118 Servile classes, privileges, 27 , 296 –8 Setaria italica (tenai), 300 Seven, number, 26 , 30 , 31 , 33 , 34 , 49 , 52 , 56 , 68 , 186 , 228 , 229 , 253 , 291 , 299 , 309 Shadow of European thrown on a feast, 109 Shānān, 84 , 174 , 178 , 246 Shark-charmer, 198 Sheep, 14 , 22 , 52 , 191 ; sacrifice, 37 , 38 , 41 , 119 , 137 , 148 , 149 , 150 , 176 , 183 , 214 , 249 , 287 , 302 Shoe-leather, omen, 57 Shoes in lying-in chamber, 53 ; unlucky, 29 Sickle, unlucky for cutting crop, 59 Silence, 38 , 287 ; vow, 139 Sin, killing insects, 295 ; omens, 40 , 86 Siva, 24 , 65 , 71 , 86 , 101 , 115 , 162 , 163 , 184 , 279 , 297 , 305 , 307 , 308 Skewer through cheeks and tongue, 138 , 143 , 144 , 145 Skull, human, used in sorcery, 228 , 241 —— of bull to ward off evil eye, 113 Sleep, omens, 19 Slippers, beating with, 28 Smallpox, 29 , 36 , 39 , 59 , 115 , 166 175 , 212 , 235 Smasanākollai festival, 136 Snake, 20 , 25 , 43 , 71 , 89 –91, 96 , 98 , 186 , 260 ——, cremation, 123 —— gods, propitiation by Pulluvans, 129 –32 —— grove, 122 –3, 126 –7, 129 , 131 —— mosque at Manarghāt, 129 —— shrine (nāga kovil), 92 —— songs, 128 —— stones, 120 , 123 –6, 131 –3 Snake-bite, 92 –6, 193 ——-charmers, 92 –6, 129 ——-wood tree, 91 Snakes, images, 43 , 124 , 127 , 160 —— inhabit white-ant hills, 129 , 133 –6 Sneezing, omen, 25 , 26 Sonaga, 196 Sparrow, 70 , 87 –8 Spider, 105 , 240 Spitting, 26 , 27 Square, magic, 32 , 36 –7, 74 , 78 , 183 , 184 , 194 , 215 , 274 , 276 Squirrel, 83 –4 Srādh (anniversary ceremony for dead), 67 –8, 83 Srāvana Belgola, colossal Jain figure, 135 Srinivāsa fish, 102 Sterility, umbilical cord a cure, 55 Stone, magic (yantram rāyi), 180 , 183 –5.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

“Well, he plumped out that I had about a month left me; it might be a little more, he said, under favourable circumstances, but it might also be considerably less.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Stand up for Canada every time, John.
— from The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete by William Dean Howells

It was soon settled in the minds of many that the stranger (p. 026) whom we have mentioned as having been frequenting the hotels at Sutton and Abercorn had been the wielder of the lead pipe on July 8th, but his name and whereabouts were not to be obtained, as he had been sailing under false colors during his stay in the country, and those who were initiated into the secrets of the case, of course, kept silence.
— from The Story of a Dark Plot; Or, Tyranny on the Frontier by A.L.O.C.

It is said that "all things are lawful in war"; but this adage, like many others, sails under false colors.
— from Reminiscences of a Rebel by Wayland Fuller Dunaway

"Yes," cried Jonathan; "that greenhorn, standing there by the Commodore, is sailing under false colours; he's an impostor, I say; he wears my crown.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

Among the simplicity and religiousness of those shapes, unchanged for centuries, he lived in a very simple way, sneezing all the time, and as his wife was a miserly creature, little by little her avaricious spirit had communicated itself to him, until he had grown into her penurious and miserly ways.
— from Tales of My Native Town by Gabriele D'Annunzio

To please her she cultivated Derrice; to please her she shunned the summer visitors among whom she usually found congenial associates.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

Who shall separate us from Christ's love?
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Romans by Richard Francis Weymouth

There—you may roast me alive an’ eat me, if you like, but you can’t say, after this, that I’m sailin’ under false colours.”
— from Jarwin and Cuffy by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

He sent up from Calcutta, as soon as they arrived, reinforcements for the lamentably small British army; and he sent orders for brigading and marshalling, at Allahabad and at Cawnpore, such troops as could arrive from Calcutta on the one hand, and from Delhi on the other.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

The broth may be served in cups as soup; used for chowders; for bisque soups; for white wine sauce; for cooking fish, or for many other purposes.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler