In these Cherokee practices the lamentations and the invocations of the Old Woman of the Corn resemble the ancient Egyptian customs of lamenting over the first corn cut and calling upon Isis, herself probably in one of her aspects an Old Woman of the Corn.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

SYN: Train, march, caravan, file, cortege, cavalcade, retinue.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Would I had—oh, my dove of light, After whose flight came ceaseless night, One plume to clasp so purely white.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

n. ‘ evil ,’ ill, wickedness, misery , B, Bl, CP, G, VPs . yfelādl f. ‘ cachexia ,’ consumption , WW 113 13 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Five civilians, Caius, Papinian, Paul, Ulpian, and Modestinus, were established as the oracles of jurisprudence: a majority was decisive: but if their opinions were equally divided, a casting vote was ascribed to the superior wisdom of Papinian.
— 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

Figure (cipher), cifero.
— from English-Esperanto Dictionary by J. C. (John Charles) O'Connor

Note 94 ( return ) [ Omnia foris placita, domi prospera, annonae ubertate, fructuum copia, &c. Panegyr.
— 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

Semicolon, 309 f. Sentences, 1 ff.; kinds of, 2 f.; parts of speech in, 3 ff., 13 ff.; essential elements in, 2 , 14 ; simple and complete subject and predicate, 14 f.; clauses in, 16 ff.; simple, compound, complex, 17 ff.; compound complex, 18 . Sentences, analysis, 183 ff.; structure and elements, 183 ; of simple sentences, 184 f.; of compound, 185 ; of complex, 186 ; of compound and complex clauses, 186 f.; of compound complex sentences, 187 ; models for analysis of simple, compound, complex, compound complex sentences, 188 ff.; modifiers, 191 ff.; complements, 200 ff.; modifiers of complements and of modifiers, 205 ff.; independent elements, 209 ; combinations of clauses making sentences of various forms, 210 ff.; special complications, 220 ff.; elliptical sentences, 224 ff.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He caught an express that left Brentwood at three o'clock, and settled himself comfortably in a corner of an empty first-class carriage, coiled up in a couple of railway rugs, and smoking a cigar in mild defiance of the authorities.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Writs of Assistance Issued—Excitement in Boston—The Stamp Act—Protests against Taxation Without Representation—Massachusetts Appoints a Committee of Correspondence—Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry—Henry's Celebrated Resolutions—His Warning to King George—Growing Agitation in the Colonies—The Stamp Act Repealed—Parliament Levies Duties on Tea and Other Imports to America—Lord North's Choice of Infamy—Measures of Resistance in America—The Massachusetts Circular Letter—British Troops in Boston—The Boston Massacre—Burning of the Gaspee—North Carolina "Regulators"—The Boston Tea Party—The Boston Port Bill—The First Continental Congress—A Declaration of Rights—"Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!"
— from The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country by Henry Mann

“Take note of it, prince, remember it; you collect, I am told, facts concerning capital punishment...
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This, distinguished 286 from the right by having fewer fleshy columns, by its smaller size, by the greater elongation of its appendix, which is narrower than that of the other, &c. communicates by an oval opening furnished with valves, with the left ventricle, the thickness of whose parietes, the arrangement of the fleshy columns, &c. distinguish it from the right.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

Wild flowers grew triumphantly over the piles of rotting wood and rusty iron; cornflowers and Queen Anne's lace and poppies; blue and white and red, as if the French colours came up spontaneously out of the French soil, no matter what the Germans did to it.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

In this state of mind they are, when in prosperity, the happiest of mortals; for nothing but personal or family calamities can disturb their tranquillity, while misfortunes of the lesser kind sit light on them.
— from A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Samuel Hearne

They are minute filiform plants closely allied to the Nostocs; and consist of transparent colourless tubular filaments containing colour cells of various forms, more or less separated from each other, and visible through their transparent tubes; the colour is usually some shade of green, yellowish, or purple.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

[11] "Company, at the halt, facing left, form close column of platoons.
— from Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition by John Gallishaw

The officer, who was endeavoring to clear the road in order to give the firing party the requisite room, came up on hearing the sound of voices, and beholding a woman with her arms about the neck of one of his prisoners, exclaimed loudly in French: “Come, come, none of this nonsense here!
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola