But it should at the same time be noticed that this tall, conical hat is much more closely allied to the real cap of maintenance than our present crest "chapeau."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

But this, at least, is certain, that the present area of the London County Council ought not (if health and beauty, and that which is too frequently put in the front rank—rapid production of wealth forms—are to be considered) to contain more than, say, one-fifth of its present population; and that new systems of railways, sewerage, drainage, lighting, parks, etc., must be constructed if London is to be saved, while the whole system of production and of distribution must undergo changes as complete and as remarkable as was the change from a system of barter to our present complicated commercial system.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

Trains of peasant carts came to Moscow to carry off to the villages what had been abandoned in the ruined houses and the streets.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

He also published a book with the title of Perialogos; containing complaints of the injurious treatment to which professors submitted, without seeking redress at the hands of parents.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests , in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If personal experience can be worth anything as an education, it wouldn't seem likely that you could trip Methuselah; and yet if that old person could come back here it is more than likely that one of the first things he would do would be to take hold of one of these electric wires and tie himself all up in a knot.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

Mester , sb. art, trade, occupation, PP, C, CM; mestier , PP, HD; meister , S; meoster , S; myster , PP, B; mister , B; misteir , B. Phr. : mester men , sort of men, C.—OF. and AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

4. It was the native land of a tribe of Philistines called Caphtorim (Gen. x. 14;
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

In the following Glossary only those words are given which costermongers principally use,—the terms connected with street traffic, the names of the different coins, vegetables, fruit and fish, technicalities of police courts, &c.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Despite the cant of the peace-advocate, we must realise that our present Christian civilisation, the product of an alien people, rests but lightly upon the Teuton when he is deeply aroused, and that in the heat of combat he is quite prone to revert to the mental type of his own Woden-worshipping progenitors, losing himself in that superb fighting zeal which baffled the conquering cohorts of a Caesar, and humbled the proud aspirations of a Varus.
— from Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

In the literature on combustion one may find statements that the gases must be completely burned before leaving the furnace or before they strike the cooling surfaces of the boiler; but there is no definite information available as to how long the gases must be kept in the furnace or how large the combustion space must be in order to obtain practically complete combustion.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Federal Investigations of Mine Accidents, Structural Materials and Fuels. Paper No. 1171 by Herbert M. (Herbert Michael) Wilson

If used at all, its use was probably understood as referring to their own pure (Catharist) Church.
— from The Albigensian Heresy by Henry James Warner

It was a very long time since I had seen a female with one of those horrible coal-scuttle affairs, one of those odious pasteboard cases covered with a slip of stuff, and called bonnets, in which the fair sex bury their faces, in so-styled civilized countries.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

The chief administrative officer of the college has come to be considered the college; in his own eyes, and in the eye of the public, he is the college; he is the only person considered competent or authorized to represent it; and it is his view that is to prevail in all matters of educational policy.
— from The Unpopular Review, Vol. 2, No. 4, October-December 1914, including Vol. 2 Index by Various

‘We can’t take any merit to ourselves, papa!’ cried Cherry, as they both apprised Tom Pinch’s sister, with a curtsey, that they would feel obliged if she would keep her distance.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

At least, let it not be said that in our great cities, where there are tens of thousands of poor Catholic children, and in those rural districts where the numbers are notoriously sufficient to justify the establishment of one or more schools, they shall be driven to seek an education under a system which their parents cannot conscientiously sanction, or be left to the chances of procuring the rudiments of learning from the over-taxed and doubly-taxed resources of their co-religionists.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

This being true, it is not surprising to find certain types of play characterizing certain ages and to find that though the particular games may vary, there is a strong resemblance between plays of children of the same age all over the world.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

The scene described by Lindsay of Pitscottie, and better known through 'Sir David Lindsay's Tale' in Marmion , took place in the old parish church, closely adjoining the palace, the square tower of which is seen over the trees.
— from Scottish Loch Scenery by Thomas Allan Croal