Fear for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

; ad, with gerund or gerundive; causâ, following the genitive of a gerund or gerundive pursue , însequor, 3 Q queen , rêgîna, -ae, f. quickly , celeriter quite , expressed by the comp.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Then, with a glance of glad serenity, He took my hand in his, which made me bold, 20 And brought me in where secret things there be.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Faith is a gift of God, which Man can neither give, nor take away by promise of rewards, or menaces of torture.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

plirayid n unofficial player in a game or gambling, participating as filler so that there is a full contingent of the required number of players.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Doing the indignant: a girl of good family like me, respectable character.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

And on Sunday mornings, every Sunday morning, all the year round, while he is closed to the outer world, and every night after ten, he goes into his bar parlour, bearing a glass of gin faintly tinged with water, and having placed this down, he locks the door and examines the blinds, and even looks under the table.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

When near Carrie, he stretched out his right hand and gripped one girl under the arm.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

At a little distance a group of gentlemen are assembled round the door of a warehouse.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

On the contrary, it seems probable that, being a girl of great sense as well as great beauty, she preferred her father's young soldier to her mother's somewhat debauched heir to a throne.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Dr. Tattershall conceives that because this author speaks of certain men without the spirit and grace of God, as having had some concern in the composition of this gospel, we may conclude that the introductory chapters were wanting from the copy which he used.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

If she is a girl of good ancestry and the usual bringing up, she has never expected any other conditions than these.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

In ancient times the Sacred Marriage took place usually once a year; but besides this ceremony there were other sexual rites which were not celebrated at a fixed season, but might be performed in the precincts of the temple of a god or goddess at any time, the males being often the priests or temple officials.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

I. October’s woods are bright and gay, a thousand colours vie To win the golden smiles the Sun sends gleaming thro’ the sky; And tho’ the flowers are dead and gone, one garden seems the earth, For, in God’s world, as one charm dies, another starts to birth.
— from The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems by John Reade

CARE AND MAINTENANCE.--All charging and cleaning of apparatus, generation of gas and execution of repairs must be done during daylight hours only, and generators must not be manipulated or in any way tampered with in the presence of artificial light.
— from Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power by W. J. Atkinson (William John Atkinson) Butterfield

Of course any woman may love you for your goodness and your brains, but, you see, Yulitchka is a girl of good family from a high-class boarding-school; goodness and brains are not enough for her.
— from The Darling and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'My sweet Melissa' soon won uncle Andro's affection, and many a gift of garments, embroidered by her skilful hands, found its way to the lonely prisoner in the Tower.
— from Andrew Melville by William Morison