Of pride, indeed, there was, perhaps, scarcely enough; his indifference to a confusion of rank, bordered too much on inelegance of mind.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

It has long been known that the ancient custom of erecting a may-pole, surrounding it with wreaths of flowers, and then dancing round it in wild orgy, was a relic of the ancient custom of reverencing the symbol of creation, invigorated by the returning spring time, without whose powers the flocks and herds would fail to increase.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

Near them he sets a cocoanut, which has been blackened with charcoal, on some rice spread on a plantain leaf, a cocoanut reddened with turmeric and chunam on raw rice, and another on a leaf, containing fried paddy.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Adscripti Glebæ (Lat., persons attached to the soil), a term applied to a class of Roman slaves attached in perpetuity to and transferred with the land they cultivated.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The talents and courage of Raymond were highly esteemed among the Greeks.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Emperor had written to Count Rostopchín as follows: As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutúzov to let him know.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On the next day they met and decreed that the Temple of Concord which Camillus had vowed should be erected on a spot facing the Forum, where these events had taken place; moreover, that the Latin games should continue for four days instead of three, and that all citizens of Rome should at once offer sacrifice and crown themselves with garlands.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Well, well, I daresay that a couple of rabbits would account both for the blood and for the charred ashes.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Maggie seemed to be listening to a chorus of reproach and derision.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

He was already traveling at cruising speed, considerably less than top speed, but he didn't want to take a chance of ramming one of the Moro craft.
— from The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

Bonaparte's visit to the Senate gave rise to a change of rank in the hierarchy of the different authorities composing the Government.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

But of all considerations there is none more fitted to astonish and alarm the careless than that they are capable of refusing [Pg 143] all the appeals of Divine love, and rejecting all the bounty of Divine grace.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel by William Garden Blaikie

"His indifference to a confusion of rank," she thought, "bordered too much on inelegance of mind."
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd

The gospel as it has been restored is intended to make free indeed, free to choose the good and forsake the evil, free to exercise that boldness in their choice of that which is good, by which they are convinced of right, notwithstanding the great majority of the people of the world may point at them the finger of scorn and ridicule.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

I, being handy with tools, made them a cradle, or rocker, and some sluice-boxes.
— from A Claim on Klondyke: A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Edward Roper

The idea was not altogether a new one, as we find the Pennsylvania Gazette , in commenting twenty-five years previously on the iniquity of the British Government in sending its convicts to America, suggesting as a set off that "a cargo of rattlesnakes should be distributed in St. James's Park, Spring Gardens, and other places of pleasure."
— from The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry, and Associations by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

When dealing with borders a suggestion was made that the undulate stem could follow the lines of adjacent circles, and this device is the basis of most of the scrolling growth lines that are characteristic of Renaissance ornament.
— from Design and Tradition A short account of the principles and historic development of architecture and the applied arts by Amor Fenn