As when a circling wall the builder forms, Of strength defensive against wind and storms, Compacted stones the thickening work compose, And round him wide the rising structure grows: So helm to helm, and crest to crest they throng, Shield urged on shield, and man drove man along; Thick, undistinguish'd plumes, together join'd, Float in one sea, and wave before the wind.
— from The Iliad by Homer

libákag v [A2] stand up on its ends.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He obtained, moreover, a general recognition for the doctrine of the Law of Nature which exerted so strong an influence upon succeeding centuries; indeed, between these two sciences, as between international law and ethics, he draws no very sharp line of demarcation, although, on the whole, in spite of an unscientific, scholastic use of quotation from authorities, his treatment of the [p. 26] new field is clear and comprehensive.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

A correct interpretation of these magical elements so prominent in the Fairy-Faith is of fundamental importance, because if made it will set us on one of the main psychical highways which traverse the vast territory of our anthropological inquiry.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I wonder (added he) what sort of sonata we are to expect from this overture, in which the devil, that presides over horrid sounds, hath given us such variations of discord—The trampling of porters, the creaking and crashing of trunks, the snarling of curs, the scolding of women, the squeaking and squalling of fiddles and hautboys out of tune, the bouncing of the Irish baronet over-head, and the bursting, belching, and brattling of the French-horns in the passage (not to mention the harmonious peal that still thunders from the Abbey steeple) succeeding one another without interruption, like the different parts of the same concert, have given me such an idea of what a poor invalid has to expect in this temple, dedicated to Silence and Repose, that I shall certainly shift my quarters to-morrow, and endeavour to effectuate my retreat before Sir Ulic opens the ball with my lady Mac Manus; a conjunction that bodes me no good.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

On the contrary, our great monarch had expressly sent us out to visit him, Motecusuma, and make those disclosures to him, in his imperial name, which Motecusuma had heard.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

A vision in curl papers awakes Thaddeus—Belated discovery of a mistake—The tavern—The emissary—The skilful use of a snuffbox turns discussion into the proper channel—The jungle—The bear—Danger of Thaddeus and the Count—Three shots—The dispute of the Sagalas musket with the Sanguszko musket settled in favour of the single-barrelled Horeszko carbine—Bigos—The Seneschal's tale of the duel of Dowejko and Domejko, interrupted by hunting the hare—End of the tale of Dowejko and Domejko.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

As for you other good people, I must earnestly pray and beseech you to believe no other thing, to think on, say, undertake, or do no other thing, than what’s contained in our sacred decretals and their corollaries, this fine Sextum, these fine Clementinae, these fine Extravagantes.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Consequently, even the perception of an object as phenomenon is possible only through the same synthetical unity of the manifold of the given sensuous intuition, through which the unity of the composition of the homogeneous manifold in the conception of a quantity is cogitated; that is to say, all phenomena are quantities, and extensive quantities, because as intuitions in space or time they must be represented by means of the same synthesis through which space and time themselves are determined.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

It had not sprung up on the raft.
— from The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

[10] Most touching of all is the idea, common to the national songs of all nations, that out of the grave of 208 two lovers, lilies and roses spring up, or climbing plants, love thus outliving death.
— from The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese

If we suppose the strata spread uniformly over the earth’s entire surface, then the ocean must envelop the whole globe.
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

This president man and his companion in play, they stand up over in San Mateo, ready for the run, and shout: 'Fox-in-the-Morning!'
— from Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry

It had been supposed, until our time, that despotism was odious, under whatever form it appeared.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

[Page 55] what experience only has shown us, or can show us, to have existence, constantly missing the sight of what we do not know beforehand to be visible: and painters, to the last hour of their lives, are apt to fall in some degree into the error of painting what exists, rather than what they can see.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 1 (of 5) by John Ruskin

"For your sake, unhappy one, I am selling my soul."
— from The Confession: A Novel by Maksim Gorky

One by one he saw the gunboats sink, until only the “Tennessee” had to be accounted for.
— from Pike & Cutlass: Hero Tales of Our Navy by George Gibbs

The edges of the frame rise about an inch above each surface of the glass, and, being flat, the frames stand securely upon one another, forming often considerable stacks.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite

It nearly always slips through a fellow's fingers at the last—so don't get set up on it.
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles