63 string strung strung strive strove striven swear swore sworn sweat (see p. 299 ) sweep swept swept swell swelled swelled , swollen swim swam swum swing swung swung take took taken teach taught taught tear tore torn tell told told think thought thought thrive throve, thrived thriven, thrived throw threw thrown thrust thrust thrust tread trod trodden wake woke, waked woke, waked wax (grow) (see p. 299 ) wear wore worn weave wove woven wed (see p. 299 ) weep wept wept wet wet wet win won won wind wound wound wring wrung wrung write wrote written Bear , break , drive , get ( beget , forget ), speak , spin , stink , swear , tear , have an archaic past tense in a : bare , brake , drave , gat , spake , etc.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Perhaps the ancient “briny broth” contained enough of this and of other ingredients, such as fine condiments and spices to make the dressing perfect.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Under the chaplain’s guidance they selected many hideous presents and mementoes—florid little picture-frames that seemed fashioned in gilded pastry; other little frames, more severe, that stood on little easels, and were carven out of oak; a blotting book of vellum; a Dante of the same material; cheap mosaic brooches, which the maids, next Christmas, would never tell from real; pins, pots, heraldic saucers, brown art-photographs; Eros and Psyche in alabaster; St. Peter to match—all of which would have cost less in London.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

v [AB2; b5] become, make beautiful.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I haven't really had a "big bad" experience.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A bastard branch of the Vāniyas is called the Pillai Kūttam, which is said to have sprung from the concubine of a Vāniyan, who lived many years ago.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

No. 4— World's Coffee Consumption, 1850–1920 Diagram showing the relationship between the leading coffee-consuming countries In South America, Brazil, Bolivia, and all the countries to the north, are coffee producers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

a bringing bad luck.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Whereupon Colombe de Gaillefontaine, another beautiful blonde, with a white skin, dressed to the neck in blue damask, ventured a timid remark which she addressed to Fleur-de-Lys, in the hope that the handsome captain would reply to it, “My dear Gondelaurier, have you seen the tapestries of the Hôtel de la Roche-Guyon?”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

Regiment after regiment would be held at bay by the murderous rifle-fire of the little handful of British; regiment after regiment would appear to fill the gap.
— from The Retreat from Mons By one who shared in it by Arthur Corbett-Smith

To look back upon, it is all a wonderful dream-world of sunshine and flowers and beauty; but at the time, I did not really like Rome.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

These facts may, perhaps, show with what propriety Attila would be compared with a bright but beautiful meteor; and that, if the design was to symbolize him as acting an important part in the downfall of the Roman empire, there is a fitness in the symbol here employed.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

The delightful Charley walked in, with his eyes fixed on the back of her governess whose raised veil hid her forehead like a brown band above the black line of the eyebrows.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

The Highlanders are brave; but it is surely beyond human expectation that five or six thousand Highlanders can vanquish a kingdom with a brave and well trained army with abundant artillery.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The precipitate, which, after being burnt, consists of silica, is weighed.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Lee's last campaign was looked upon in high quarters as a big bluff that should have been "called" by Meade while the Army of Northern Virginia was north of the Rappahannock.
— from Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 by Joseph Warren Keifer

Callous (of a broken bone).
— from Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced by Richard Walter