2 s.t. used in the house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Method will therefore be the more generally used, become the more indispensable, the farther down the scale of rank the position of the active agent; and on the other hand, its use will diminish upwards, until in the highest position it quite disappears.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

no author, who understands the just boundaries of decorum and good-breeding, would presume to think all: The truest respect which you can pay to the reader’s understanding, is to halve this matter amicably, and leave him something to imagine, in his turn, as well as yourself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Lunsayng kaputlì nga wà pa kamansáhi sa kasinatían, Unadulterated innocence that has not been [ 646 ] polluted by experience.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

There was something awfully unpleasant in that handsome face, which looked so wonderfully young for his age.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The others continued fighting, and the cry of battle rose up into the heavens.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Stupidity made sordid and cruel by the realities learnt from toil and poverty: Imagination resolved to starve sooner than face these realities, piling up illusions to hide them, and calling itself cleverness, genius!
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Upon a lowering morning late in November, with the yellow fog low upon the flat meadows, and the blinded cattle groping their way through the dim obscurity, and blundering stupidly against black and leafless hedges, or stumbling into ditches, undistinguishable in the hazy atmosphere; with the village church looming brown and dingy through the uncertain light; with every winding path and cottage door, every gable end and gray old chimney, every village child and straggling cur seeming strange and weird of aspect in the semi-darkness, Phoebe Marks and her Cousin Luke made their way through the churchyard of Audley, and presented themselves before a shivering curate, whose surplice hung in damp folds, soddened by the morning mist, and whose temper was not improved by his having waited five minutes for the bride and bridegroom.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

But from an insatiable love of gold and silver, every man will stoop to any art or contrivance, seemly or unseemly, in the hope of becoming rich; and will make no objection to performing any action, holy, or unholy and utterly base; if only like a beast he have the power of eating and drinking all kinds of things, and procuring for himself in every sort of way the gratification of his lusts.
— from Laws by Plato

Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Artemisia and Thais, shut up in the house of Iphicrates, awaited the result of the siege.
— from The Golden Hope: A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Robert H. (Robert Higginson) Fuller

The ceremony is therefore held at night, and for this period the couple either remain shut up in the house or retire to the jungle.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 4 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

For ours is not a conflict with mere flesh and blood, but with the despotisms, the empires, the forces that control and govern this dark world—the spiritual hosts of evil arrayed against us in the heavenly warfare.
— from Weymouth New Testament in Modern Speech, Ephesians by Richard Francis Weymouth

While the Pantheon was being built, an activity unexampled in the history of Roman architecture was going on at the villa.
— from The Mute Stones Speak: The Story of Archaeology in Italy by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick

The sun was now up in the heavens, and blazed fiercely; the heat was intense, although still early in the day.
— from The Mission; or Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat

Brute courage is useful in the heady fight, but the possessor of that only can never be a fitting leader.”
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston

As Mr. Bateson says: "In the Nile Expedition, in the South African Campaign, in the frontier work in India, there have been many soldiers who, here and there, have surrendered their lives to Christ, but this 'Revival' in the British Expeditionary Force in France is surely unique in the history of war."
— from With Our Fighting Men The story of their faith, courage, endurance in the Great War by William E. Sellers

a respectable unmarried woman,—a demoiselle, du monde,—a jeune fille bien élevie ,—come by herself to Paris,—dwell unchaperoned in the Hôtel de l’.céan et de Shakespere,—hob and nob familiarly with you and me,—submit to be tutoyée by Tom, Dick, and Harry!
— from Mademoiselle Miss, and Other Stories by Henry Harland

First make a small hole quite deep in the top of the seed-vessel; then push the end of the stem of the rose up into the head ( Fig. 543 ).
— from Indoor and Outdoor Recreations for Girls by Lina Beard

For example, Lorenzo Lotto had been brought up in the heyday of the Renaissance; but the new order of things, the change from national virility to national decadence, enfeebled him.
— from Venice by Dorothy Menpes