28 There is a notable unanimity, among the men in the army of about Major March’s age and rank, in the opinion that he is a man of very extraordinary ability.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

To this Ladies’ Seminary, then, Richard Swiveller hied, with designs obnoxious to the peace of the fair Sophia, who, arrayed in virgin white, embellished by no ornament but one blushing rose, received him on his arrival, in the midst of very elegant not to say brilliant preparations; such as the embellishment of the room with the little flower-pots which always stood on the window-sill outside, save in windy weather when they blew into the area; the choice attire of the day-scholars who were allowed to grace the festival; the unwonted curls of Miss Jane Wackles who had kept her head during the whole of the preceding day screwed up tight in a yellow play-bill; and the solemn gentility and stately bearing of the old lady and her eldest daughter, which struck Mr Swiveller as being uncommon but made no further impression upon him.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Being a man of very expensive habits, for he was in this respect a sort of second Aristippus, he often went to dine with his friends.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

He was a man of very expensive habits, and on this account he used to go from city to city, and at times he would contrive the most amazing devices.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Associations of this character have been the subject matter of very enlightening experimental investigations, which have played a noteworthy role in the history of psychoanalysis.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He roused him with a sort of ferocity, pulled at him, pushed him, even beat him; but after five minutes of vain exertions, he returned to his bench in helpless despair, and sat down.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Piso, otherwise a man of very eminent virtue, being moved against a soldier of his, for that returning alone from forage he could give him no account where he had left a companion of his, took it for granted that he had killed him, and presently condemned him to death.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Still in cases approximating to this last, Common Sense is somewhat disposed to complain of the misdirection of valuable effort; so that the meed of honour commonly
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In a flash Hill's mist of vague excitement condensed abruptly to a vivid dislike of Wedderburn.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

= healsgund hālsian (±) (ēa) to adjure, call up, convoke , CP, Mt, OET, VPs : exorcise , LL.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Her obstinate refusal caused him the greatest torments, and her last answer evidently hastened his end; for, added she, he made one violent effort, and raising his head, he cried out in despair, "No, it shall avail her nothing; she avoids me, but I'll torment her, though the grave divide us!"
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 332, September 20, 1828 by Various

A frequent error of this kind is the practice of making every recitation a language lesson, and interrupting the arithmetic, geography, history, literature, or whatever it may be, by calling the pupil’s attention abruptly to something in his forms of expression, his pronunciation, or to some faulty use of English; thus turning the entire system of school work into a series of grammar exercises and weakening the power of continuous thought on the objective contents of the several branches, by creating a pernicious habit of self-consciousness in the matter of verbal expression.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris

Thrice-Nobler then my selfe, Thou teachest me: Oh valiant Eros, what I should, and thou could'st not, my Queene and Eros Haue by their braue instruction got vpon me A Noblenesse in Record.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

B. Reed—Cooper's novels (The Spy, The Pilot and Lionel Lincoln)—Motley's Horton's Hope and Paulding's Old Continental (novel)—Winthrop Sargent's Life of Andre and Loyalist Poetry of the Revolution—Moore's Songs and Ballads and Diary of the Revolution—Whittier's Rangers (Poem)—Hawthorne's Septimius Felton (Fiction)—Winthrop's Edwin Brothertoft (fiction)—Barnes's Brief History of France—Barnes's Popular History of United States—Harper's Magazine, vol 50, p 777, Art The Concord Fight, vol 51, p 230, Art, Echoes of Bunker Hill vol 53 p 1, Art, Virginia in the Revolution vol 55, 511 Art, Battle of Benmngton—Atlantic Monthly, vol 37, p. 466, Art, The Siege of Boston—Martin's Civil Government TERRITORIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNITED STATES (see Map of VIth Epoch)—The Treaty with Great Britain (Sept 3, 1783) fixed the boundaries of the United States as the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi River, and the Great Lakes From this however, was to be excluded Florida, which belonged to Spain and the part of Louisiana east of the Mississippi.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

Thus a privileged aristocracy was created, and the majority of Venetians excluded from any share in their government; but because this government aimed not at the advantage of any particular family but of the whole state, people forgave its despotic character.
— from Europe in the Middle Ages by Ierne L. (Ierne Lifford) Plunket

By two primitive forces, each of which are in continual action, these masses are revolved and carried through the immensity of space; and their combined efforts produce the zones of the celestial spheres, and in the midst of vacuity establish fixed stations, and regular routes and orbits.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

Fifteen minutes of vigorous exercise before the bath will add to its advantages.
— from Health: How to get it and keep it. The hygiene of dress, food, exercise, rest, bathing, breathing, and ventilation. by Walter V. Woods

I had lent him An Account of Scotland, in 1702 , written by a man of various enquiry, an English chaplain to a regiment stationed there.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell

In the mount of vision, ere they have yet risen from their knees, they say, "We discover that this our homage and beatitude is partial and deformed; we must fly for relief to the suspected and reviled Intellect, to the Understanding, the Mephistopheles, to the gymnastics of latent."
— from Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson