n swaying of the hips or metaphorically, a similar action.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The History of Moralisation and Demoralisation.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And as for his beauty, there was nobody so unpolite as, when they saw Moses, they were not greatly surprised at the beauty of his countenance; nay, it happened frequently, that those that met him as he was carried along the road, were obliged to turn again upon seeing the child; that they left what they were about, and stood still a great while to look on him; for the beauty of the child was so remarkable and natural to him on many accounts, that it detained the spectators, and made them stay longer to look upon him. 7.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[487] And a little after He says, "The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, and the heart of the simple in the house of feasting."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

thou hast got the heels of me at last.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

"Thus, then, Simmias has the appellation of being both little and great, being between both, by exceeding the littleness of one through his own magnitude, and to the other yielding a magnitude that exceeds his own littleness."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

In a competition with two steamers we needed to have our men and the boat keyed up to the highest efficiency.
— from A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

The old MS being lost, the translation by Mar Apas Catina and the first part of the history of Moses are given as identical to each other in Langlois’ collection of Armenian historians.
— from Armenian Legends and Festivals by Louis A. (Louis Angelo) Boettiger

Though, if you are to do it in sixty minutes, you must fifty times repress an impulse to linger beside some new marvel in the handiwork of man and go marching on.
— from The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

Dr. Ewell, in the introduction to his Letters to Ladies , says:— “The serious object of my present solicitude is to wrest the practice of midwifery from the hands of men, and transfer it to women, as it was in the beginning, and ever should be.
— from Hints to Husbands: A Revelation of the Man-Midwife's Mysteries by George Morant

You will be generous towards those traits which the host of mere acquaintanceship took pleasure in exaggerating, and you will be fair enough not to misjudge his great qualities because of certain faults of temper.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

Heine thought that existence was evil and saw ... across the hard surfaces of the rocks The homes of men and the hearts of men— In the one as in the others, lies, imposture and misery.
— from The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Elie Metchnikoff

Epiphanius points out that the Ebionites denied that Paul was a Jew, and asserted that he was born of a Gentile father and mother, but that, having gone up to Jerusalem, he became a proselyte and submitted to circumcision in the hope of marrying a daughter of the high priest.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

I had no trouble in discovering the house of mourning, as a crowd of peasants hung about the door.
— from The Wide World Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 131, February, 1909 by Various

We had known the hordes of Moghals and Pathans who invaded India, but we had known them as human races, with their own religions and customs, likes and dislikes,—we had never known them as a nation.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore