Also, still she is hail-fellow-well-met with students, more especially with some of those Russian physicists and chemists who swarm in Heidelberg, and who, though at first flabbergasting the simple-minded German professors with the moderation of their views, subsequently proceed to flabbergast those professors with the wholeheartedness of their sloth.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

This, said Panurge, makes the saying good: While jolly companions carouse it together, A fig for the storm, it gives way to good weather.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

One draws the cane from the rick, or stack, cutting the top and flags from the stalk, leaving only that part which is sound and healthy.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

Afterwards the Syracusan and allied troops arrived in greater numbers, and the Athenians fearing for their ships came up also to the rescue and engaged them, and defeated and pursued them to some distance and killed a few of their heavy infantry.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

From the time that Garrison, Lovejoy, and others began to agitate for freedom, the slaves throughout the South kept in close touch with the progress of the movement.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

The dues on ecclesiastical properties were renewed and maintained for several years; all beverages sold in towns were taxed, and from four to six deniers in the pound were levied upon the value of all merchandise sold in any part of the kingdom.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

He had long been a down-looking young fellow, but this characteristic had so increased of late, that he never raised his eyes to any face for three seconds together.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The pirdǔn candles are lighted to ask forgiveness for the sins of a dying man.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the Museum at Aarau there are four from the station at Vindonissa.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

The press censorship instigated various newspapers to attack the Ambassador so that Germany might be justified in asking for his recall, but the attack failed for the simple reason that there was no evidence against the Ambassador except that he had been too vigorous in insisting upon livable prison camp conditions.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

We have orders to take all horses that are fit for the service.
— from A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace by William Monks

For this purpose the acid flowing from the syphon is collected in a receiver R , in which a hydrometer, indicating its density, floats; if its density be less than 66° Baumé, the regulating cock is closed sufficiently to retard the outflow of sulphuric acid, so as to lengthen the time of its evaporation in the retort.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume II by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

This would give us possession of the timber referred to, and not only rid us of the annoying fire from the skirmishers screened by it, but also place us close in to what was now developing as Bragg's line of battle.
— from Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, Volume 1, Part 2 by Philip Henry Sheridan

She was probably prompted to this act from fear that she would be supplanted and punished, for Claudius had said, when wine had unloosed his secret thoughts, “that it was his fate to suffer the crimes of his wives, but at last to punish them.”
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

"I would have gone ten times as far for the same cause," he answered, and he looked boldly, earnestly, into her eyes.
— from The Trail of the Sword, Volume 3 by Gilbert Parker

While news could be received via wireless, the paper and supplies, as well as the men who went to and fro from the secret printing plant of the outlawed publication, had to be transported by plane.
— from In the Clutch of the War-God by Milo Hastings

So it came to pass that in the temples and on the site Of the Necropolis, large communities of priests dwelt together, and close to the extensive embalming houses lived numerous Kolchytes, who handed down the secrets of their art from father to son.
— from Uarda : a Romance of Ancient Egypt — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

These are formed from the simple forms of the personal pronouns by suffixing - ula(ne) literally “his thing.” Singular.
— from The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea by Robert Wood Williamson