It appeared as if some living creature were about to emerge—the naiad of the spring, perhaps, in the shape of a beautiful young woman with a gown of filmy water-moss, a belt of rainbow-drops and a cold, pure, passionless countenance.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If a concentrated solution is taken, it operates as a corrosive poison, producing violent pains in the stomach, vomiting, faintness and great weakness.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Pouse, a push. Poussie, a hare (also a cat). Pouther, powther, powder.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Such are chiefly adjectives meaning ( a. ) desirous , ( b. ) knowing , or remembering , ( c. ) participating , controlling , or guilty , ( d. ) full , and most of their opposites: as, ( a. ) aurī cupidus , Pl. Poen.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Conand , sb. covenant, B; Connand , B; Cunnand , B.—OF. convenant , agreeing, befitting, also, a covenant, pr. p. of convenir ; Lat. convenire .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Just as the Assessor had run up to the Jurist, and when the combatants were already making threatening gestures at each other, he suddenly seized them both by the collar from behind, and twice knocking their two heads violently together like Easter eggs, he spread out his arms like a signpost, and tossed them at the same moment into opposite corners of the room; for a moment he stood still with outstretched arms, and cried, “ Pax, pax, pax vobiscum ; peace be with you!”
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

152 21 Bien está Pedro en su casa : the Academy lists bien está San Pedro en Roma , 'let well enough alone,' 'go farther and fare worse,' 'I'm better as I am'; and como Pedro por su casa , 'without saying "by your leave.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The practical rule is, therefore, unconditional, and hence it is conceived a priori as a categorically practical proposition by which the will is objectively determined absolutely and immediately (by the practical rule itself, which thus is in this case a law); for pure reason practical of itself is here directly legislative.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Centuries ago a certain poor Page 392 woman was left by her husband, who went on a journey into Kwangsi, close by, but in those days considered a wild and distant region, full of dangers.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

paN- v [c] make as a concluding point, part or finale.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Another home, with one-twentieth part of the outlay, and small supply of art, and cheapest piano purchasable, and yet, as you enter it, there comes upon body, mind, and soul a glow of welcome and satisfied and happy domesticity.
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

Oracles were delivered in poetry, and the economy of life pointed out, and the favor of sovereign princes was solicited by Pierian drains, games were instituted, and a [cheerful] period put to the tedious labors of the day; [this I remind you of,] lest haply you should be ashamed of the lyric muse, and Apollo the god of song.
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

963-6 . 'Quae tamen ille, ab aeterno cuncta prospiciens, prouidentiae cernit intuitus, et suis quaeque meritis praedestinata disponit;' Boeth.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

I have discussed the connection between pelorism and a central position, partly because some few plants are known normally to produce a terminal flower different in structure from the lateral ones; but chiefly on account of the following case, in which we see a tendency to variability or to reversion connected with the same position.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Not long ago a comic paper printed a cartoon in which some of the best-known faces of the swells of Valparaiso appeared on the bodies of mosquitoes swarming around the car of “Conductor 97,” who had the reputation of being the prettiest girl on the line.
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis

Whether it is philologically permissible to connect Dru - with the corresponding syllable in "Druid" or not, the likeness to the Gaulish assembly at a "consecrated place," perhaps a grove ( nemeton ), is obvious.
— from The Religion of the Ancient Celts by J. A. (John Arnott) MacCulloch

This injector may be so adjusted that when the steam in the boiler rises above a certain predetermined point, say 300 lbs.
— from Artificial and Natural Flight by Hiram S. (Hiram Stevens) Maxim

This is so in many passages of Shakespeare (the greatest of poets when he chose, but not always a conscientious poet); passages where something was wanted for the sake of the plot, but he did not care about it or was hurried.
— from Poetry for Poetry's Sake An Inaugural Lecture Delivered on June 5, 1901 by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

They aim only to communicate and extend a knowledge of the latest discoveries and advances in the domain of vocal art, and to protest against and correct prevailing prejudices and errors in regard to this art, as well as to engage the attention of those to whose care the culture of the voice is entrusted.
— from The Voice in Singing by Emma Seiler