See cook COR, heart CORDYLA, CORDILLA, ℞ 419 , 423 CORIANDRUM, the herb coriander; CORIANDRATUM, flavored with c.; LIQUAMEN EX CORIANDRO, coriander essence or extract Corn, green, ℞ 99 CORNUM, cornel berry; “CORNA QUAE VERGILIUS LAPIDOSA VOCAT”—Platina CORNUTUS, horn-fish, ℞ 442 CORRUDA, the herb wild sparrage, or wild asparagus
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
In other words, transfer today the world-control of the international Jew to the hands of the highest commercially talented group of Gentiles, and the whole fabric of world-control would eventually fall to pieces, because the Gentile lacks a certain quality, be it human or divine, be it natural or acquired, that the Jew possesses.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous
Most difficult of all in this position was the fact that he could not in any way connect and reconcile his past with what was now.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
These are events of the highest consequence; of which we can receive no intelligence, but through the hands of the Gentile writers.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant
Then Thorer turned away; but had not gone far before he came back, and tells his comrades to wait there.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this: Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard conditions as this time Is like to lay upon us.
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The air was soft and sweet, and Caravan inhaled it almost greedily, and thought that he could perceive a feeling of freshness, of calm and of superhuman consolation pervading him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant
Lydia talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the fish she had won, and Mr. Collins, in describing the civility of Mr. and Mrs. Philips, protesting that he did not in the least regard his losses at whist, enumerating all the dishes at supper, and repeatedly fearing that he crouded his cousins, had more to say than he could well manage before the carriage stopped at Longbourn House.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
But that he could not do.
— from Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
It seemed unsatisfying to her—Carson’s commendation did not appear to coincide with Trevison’s performances.
— from 'Firebrand' Trevison by Charles Alden Seltzer
All the nations of the world, civilized and uncivilized, ancient and modern, seem to have contributed their share to your stately structure, which has my full admiration.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull
He fancied that he caught in this gaze the suggestion of a painful and humbled diffidence.
— from March Hares by Harold Frederic
Whoever could have seen, nearly at the same period, rising at a short distance one from the other, in Umbria, the Gallic town of Sens (now Sinigaglia), and, near Vesuvius, the Hellenic city Parthenopea (at present Naples), would have recognized Gaul by the big stone standing all red with blood, and Greece by the theatre.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo
The horrible cries did not frighten her.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster
To finesse is to play a card, not the best in the hand, on the chance that the higher card which Page 199 {199} might win the trick is on the right of the third player.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann
But he was helpless, hanging with the rope pressing his chest till he could hardly breathe, and cried out that he could stand it no longer.
— from True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.
"Dada!" cried Demetrius, bursting into a loud laugh without heeding Marcus who stepped up to him, crimson with rage.
— from Serapis — Volume 02 by Georg Ebers
He was a man betwixt forty and fifty, rather under the middle size, but so very strongly made, that his crew used to compare him to a sixty-four cut down.
— from The Pirate Andrew Lang Edition by Walter Scott
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