[2] Liquamen , which in this case corresponds to court bouillon , a broth prepared from the trimmings of the fish, herbs, and wine, well-seasoned and reduced.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

At this writing surveying corps are at work in the Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations, and therefore each one of these tribes has an ocular demonstration of the actual intent and ultimate purpose of the government of the United States.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

And that which makes my grief the more heavy is, because they have no one to teach them nor to tell them what is to come." Chr.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

The premium saved up on them all may more than compensate such losses as they are likely to meet with in the common course of chances.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But, in order to cogitate the total of this manifold, as we cannot have the aid of limits constituting by themselves this total in intuition, we are obliged to give some account of our conception, which in this case cannot proceed from the whole to the determined quantity of the parts, but must demonstrate the possibility of a whole by means of a successive synthesis of the parts.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I'm ceded, I've stopped being theirs; The name they dropped upon my face With water, in the country church, Is finished using now, And they can put it with my dolls, My childhood, and the string of spools I've finished threading too.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Doctor Faustus told him, May it please your grace to understand that the year is divided into two circles of the whole world, that when with us it is winter, in the contrary circle it is notwithstanding summer; for in India and Saba there falleth or setteth the sunne, so that it is so warm that they have twice a yeare fruit; and, gracious lord, I have a swift spirit, the which can in the twinkling of an eye fulfill my desire in any thing; wherefore I sent him into those countries, who hath brought this fruit as you see: whereat the duke was in great admiration.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

France would, in this case, carry on a direct foreign trade of consumption with England; whereas England would carry on a round-about trade of the same kind with France.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Duncan, brave as he was in the combat, could not, in such a moment of painful suspense, make any reply to the cool and characteristic remark of the scout.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

As Aristoxenus suggested, it would be especially used to mark the passage from grandeur and dignity to pathos which is the chief characteristic of tragedy ( hê men to [Pg 24] megaloprepes kai axiômatikon apodidôsin, hê de to pathêtikon, memiktai de dia toutôn tragôdia ).
— from The Modes of Ancient Greek Music by D. B. (David Binning) Monro

This the critics knew: they knew that the appeal of a work of art is essentially permanent and universal, and they knew that hardly one word in their controversy could have meant anything to the most sensitive Chinaman alive, unless he happened to be familiar with the Christian tradition and Christian ethics.
— from Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

Then, what is far different from many other modes of gaining a livelihood, a woman in this capacity can make and feel herself really and truly beloved.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The dead leaves on the hill-side were inflamed in some way, in this close contest, and when artillery and musketry had ceased, helpless wounded lying on the hill-side were burned to death.
— from From Fort Henry to Corinth by M. F. (Manning Ferguson) Force

'And I did not even know they were in town,' continued Cadurcis, for, from his irregular hours, he had not seen his cousin since the party of yesterday.
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Another way, is to conduct controversy, not from the two opposite extremes of doctrine where the differences is widest and most palpable, but from those middle terms in which both parties agree, and in relation to which they are intelligible to each other.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

By means of a ferry across this wide lake the Arabs have extended their trade routes still farther west into the central country of Manyema.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

Who is there can compel The daughter and granddaughter of kings To be his bedfellow?
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 2 (of 8) The King's Threshold. On Baile's Strand. Deirdre. Shadowy Waters by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Wilfred was not slow in making his way into the charmed circle.
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder