"If we quarrel with him, and he strikes about him, seven of us will fall at every blow; not one of us can stand against him."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Mr Dedalus laughed loudly and lay back in his chair while uncle Charles swayed his head to and fro.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

She was beginning to gain an ascendency over him in other ways; possibly she might have brought that barren soil under cultivation, she might have widened his ideas and given other directions to his thoughts.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

[361] of the funds which have hitherto served to meet the charges of the administration of justice and support of the civil government of this province, I have great satisfaction in acknowledging the readiness manifested to meet this exigence.'" Upper Canadian society was, indeed, in an infant state; but the growing intelligence of many of its constituents, especially in the non-official ranks, rendered it unwise in rulers to push the feudal or paternal theory of government too far.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

From the "Conqueror" there landed the battalion of 450 marines under Colonel Suther, besides her own complement of 100, and some bluejackets, small detachments of marines being added from the other ships of our squadron.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

best &c. (good) 648; model, standard; inimitable, unparagoned[obs3], unparalleled &c. (supreme) 33; superhuman, divine; beyond all praise &c. (approbation) 931; sans peur et sans reproche[Fr].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

This day we had a steady gale from the southward, and stood on under close sail, with the yards eased a little by the weather braces, the clouds lifting a little, and showing signs of breaking away.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Adj. uncolored &c. (see color &c. 428); colorless, achromatic, aplanatic[obs3]; etiolate, etiolated; hueless[obs3], pale, pallid; palefaced[obs3], tallow-faced; faint, dull, cold, muddy, leaden, dun, wan, sallow, dead, dingy, ashy, ashen, ghastly, cadaverous, glassy, lackluster; discolored &c. v. light-colored, fair, blond; white &c. 430.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

They write, he says, letters upon cloth, smoothed by being well beaten, although other authors affirm that they have no knowledge of writing.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Technical phraseology, useful in this connection, includes "unearthly creature," "stray leopard" or, simply, "that person.
— from Perfect Behavior: A Guide for Ladies and Gentlemen in All Social Crises by Donald Ogden Stewart

Nor, in the case of plants under cultivation, should we be justified in assuming that varieties never acquire a slight degree of mutual sterility, as we shall more fully see in a future chapter when certain facts are given on the high authority of Gärtner and Kölreuter.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

that handful of unforgettable poems which are all that Emily Bront ë has bequeathed to the world, which of us can say that the full significance of these things has been ransacked and combed out by our conscious reason; which of us can say that we understand to the full all the mysterious stir and ferment, all the far-reaching and magical reactions, which such things have produced within us?
— from Suspended Judgments: Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys

He makes such a serious matter of all these things, and Pg 123 is so 'melancholy and gentlemanlike,' that it is quite overcoming to us choice spirits.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

"Undoubtedly," Carlson said.
— from Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various

They had a good story of him at the Century Club, which is our Athenaeum, that when taken there after a lecture by his friends they gave him the usual Centurion supper of those days: saddlerock oysters.
— from My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. (Chauncey Mitchell) Depew