For these did form a part of the process; but, to Hartley's scheme, the soul is present only to be pinched or stroked, while the very squeals or purring are produced by an agency wholly independent and alien.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A thief in fustian is a vulgar character, scarcely to be thought of by persons of refinement; but dress him in green velvet, with a high-crowned hat, and change the scene of his operations, from a thickly-peopled city, to a mountain road, and you shall find in him the very soul of poetry and adventure.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

= KEY: Tender \v.\. SYN: Offer, proffer, propose, bid, produce, present.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows—only hard and with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

"But, as we affirmed, those who pursue philosophy rightly are especially and alone desirous to deliver it; and this is the very study of philosophers, the deliverance and separation of the soul from the body, is it not?"
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Detailed descriptions then follow of the Chitrini or Art woman; the Shankhini or Conch woman, and the Hastini or Elephant woman, their days of enjoyment, their various seats of passion, the manner in which they should be manipulated and treated in sexual intercourse, along with the characteristics of the men and women of the various countries in Hindostan.
— from The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks by Vatsyayana

She obtained her request; but the jealousy of Theodosius, or the vindictive spirit of Pulcheria, pursued her in her last retreat; and Saturninus, count of the domestics, was directed to punish with death two ecclesiastics, her most favored servants.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Then again it was a continually repeated shock, disturbing Lydgate's esteem, that the Vicar should obviously play for the sake of money, liking the play indeed, but evidently liking some end which it served.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This animates them to adventure again, whenever there is occasion for it; for the Utopians are not at all troubled how many of these happen to be killed, and reckon it a service done to mankind if they could be a means to deliver the world from such a lewd and vicious sort of people, that seem to have run together, as to the drain of human nature.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

The different degrees of their force and vivacity are, therefore, the only particulars, that distinguish them: And as this difference may be removed, in some measure, by a relation betwixt the impressions and ideas, it is no wonder an idea of a sentiment or passion, may by this means be inlivened as to become the very sentiment or passion.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Lichens:— a , Trypethelium Sprengelii, pustules, with sporidia; b , Verrucaria variolosa, section of perithecium with sporidium; c , Endocarpon lacteum, thallus with section and fruit; d , Stegobolus Berkeleianus, portion of plant with ascus, and sporidia.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Thus, however different may be the development of the automatic and plastic, central neurocyme activities in the brains of different animals, it is surely possible, nevertheless, to recognise certain generally valid series of phenomena and their fundamental laws.
— from Ants and Some Other Insects: An Inquiry Into the Psychic Powers of These Animals by Auguste Forel

Wilmot, expecting to be scolded for disobeying orders, was relieved at being received with visible signs of pleasure.
— from The Penalty by Gouverneur Morris

Cinereous black; head black, shining; antennæ short, dark red, 3rd joint conical, longer than the 2nd, arista thinly plumose; sides of the pectus with minute whitish speckles; abdomen elliptical, flat, black, shining, longer than the thorax; legs black; wings grey, with an irregular blackish band which does not extend to the hind border, and with a blackish apical spot; veins black; discal transverse vein straight, oblique, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by very much more than its length from the præbrachial transverse, which is clouded with black; halteres white.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

The flag was run up on which was written the word "Cove," but as soon as the Queen had gone back to the yacht, the flag was dropped, and another was run up marked "Queenstown." The Victoria and Albert went on to Cork, and the party also visited several other places in Ireland.
— from In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan

5. Vertical section of pistillate flower, enlarged.
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis

353 Varana, the, i, 379 — the Seigneury of, i, 18 Varana, Bernardo, iii, 63 Varana, Costanza, i, 90 , 216 , 428 — canzonet on, ii, 144 Varana, Ercole, iii, 64 Varana, Gentil Pandolfo, iii, 63 Varana, Giovanni, iii, 63 Varana, Giovanni Maria, ii, 36 , 418 , 419 ; iii, 64 Varana, Giulia, iii, 65-8 , 88 , 98 , 391 note Varana, Giulio Cesare, i, 400 — strangled, i, 411 Varana, Giulio di, of Camerino, i, 379 Varana, Maria, ii, 36 Varana, Matteo, iii, 64 Varana, Pier-Gentile, iii, 63 Varana, Rodolfo, iii, 65 Varana, Sigismondo, ii, 36 , 283 , 402 , 408 -564- — defends S. Leo, ii, 371 ; iii, 63 — death of, iii, 64 — reinstated, ii, 413 — death of, ii, 419 Varana, Venanzio, i, 411 ; ii, 283 ; iii, 63 Varchi, iii, 273 , 275 , 294 Varconi, La Donna Italiana , ii, 73 note Vasari, Giorgio, i, xii ; ii, 114 note, 199 , 265 , 267 ; iii, 349 , 359 , 404 note, 411 — mistakes of, i, 155 , 158 , 286 note; ii, 168 note — on the palace at Urbino, i, 157 , 158 — piety of, ii, 163 — on Oderigi, ii, 189 — on della Francesca, ii, 200-3 — on Giorgio, ii, 212 — on Raffaele, ii, 220 , 232 , 242 , 245 , 250 — on Perugino, ii, 224 — on Timoteo Viti, ii, 258 — on Julius II., ii, 306 — on Genga, iii, 350 , 351 — on Zuccaro, iii, 355 , 367 — on Michael Angelo, iii, 381 , 383 note, 399 — on Titian, iii, 390 , 391 note, 395 — origin of surname of, iii, 422 note Vasto, Marquis of, iii, 299 , 442 Vatican, the, iii, 335 , 357 , 377 — Raffaele's work in, ii, 236-40 , 244 — Bramante's work in, ii, 263 — Library, i, xxx , xliii , 108 , 167 ; ii, 286 Vecellio, Marco, iii, 291 , 480 note Vecchietta, ii, 211 note Vedetta, the, iii, 157 Vehon, Les Borgia , ii, 19 note Veit, iii, 366 Velletri, see of, ii, 301 Velluti, Cronica Domestica , ii, 73 note Venanzio, ii, 317 Venetian school of painting, iii, 345 Venezianello, Antonio, ii, 291 ; iii, 429 Veneziano, Domenico, ii, 202 note Venice, i, 262 ; ii, 62 ; iii, 298 , 311 ; 350 , 394 — individual safety in, i, 16 — in 1430, i, 67 — Ferrara invaded by, i, 258 — Guidobaldo I. at, i, 277 , 422 — in the absence of the popes, ii, 97 — MSS.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

The request being acceded to, he escaped in a vessel sent on purpose from Dunkirk, with two of his sons and nephew, accompanied by Tyrconnel, with his son, and Lord Dungannon, his brother, with thirty of their retainers, and reached in a few days Quillebeque in Normandy.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

in the midst of these variegated scenes of pleasure, death, sudden death! snatched away the source of all our joys, and turned the face of gladness into the most poignant grief.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Engelmann has very liberally offered me cliches of the woodcuts for 22 thalers; Mr. Murray has agreed to bring out a translation (and he is our best publisher) on commission, for he would not undertake the work on his own risk; and I have agreed with Mr. W.S. Dallas (who has translated Von Siebold on Parthenogenesis, and many German works, and who writes very good English) to translate the book.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin