[A; b] dig up the soil around the lower portions of a small plant.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Here all was a waste and barren desert, untenanted by any living creature, save the venomous snakes which had sprung from the blood of the Medusa when borne by Perseus over these arid plains.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

A man and his H OBBY -H ORSE , tho’ I cannot say that they act and re-act exactly after the same manner in which the soul and body do upon each other: Yet doubtless there is a communication between them of some kind; and my opinion rather is, that there is something in it more of the manner of electrified bodies,—and that, by means of the heated parts of the rider, which come immediately into contact with the back of the H OBBY -H ORSE ,—by long journies and much friction, it so happens, that the body of the rider is at length fill’d as full of H
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Unlike animals, man is not only a prey to bodily pain limited to the passing moment, but also to those incomparably greater mental sufferings, which, reaching forwards and backwards, draw upon the future and the past; and nature, by way of compensation, has granted to man alone the privilege of being able to end his life at his own pleasure, before she herself sets a term to it; thus, while animals necessarily live so long as they can, man need only live so long as he will .
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

By others, it was demonstrated as being dependent upon the muscles which surround the membranous part of the urethra, and which act upon this part and constrict it.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

ud-ud 1 v 1 [AN; b5] dig up the ground with the snout.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“There is as much cruelty and injustice done to natives by acts that are legal as by deeds unlawful.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The time spent in the formation of a burrow depends upon the nature of the soil and the length of the shaft.
— from Nests and Eggs of Birds of the United States Illustrated by Thomas G. (Thomas George) Gentry

This arrangement, however, was far from pleasing to some of the young men in the field, and brought down upon Hugh, who was too hard-wrought to hear them at first, many sly hits of country wit and human contempt.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

The virility of cell in tissue and bone depended upon that.
— from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey

Ecstasy stole over Fanny; other similar wakings strung themselves like beads upon her memory; nursery wakings when her spirit had been guided into daylight by the crackle of a fire new-lit, by the movements of just such an aproned figure as this, by a smile on just such a pink face; or wakings after illness when her freshening life had leapt in her at the sound of a blind drawn up, at the sight of the white-cuffed hand that pulled the cord.
— from The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold

George the eldest, who was in the Church, and the second son Edward, who was in the Army, both died unmarried; and, on the death of George the survivor, in 1803, Mr. Bray succeeded to the possession of the Manors of Shere and Gumshall, which had belonged to his ancestors from the reign of Henry the Eighth.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William Bray by William Bray

The family, however, wrote to the lady from Philadelphia, who had travelled in Egypt, and whose husband knew everything about Egypt that could be known,—that is, everything that had already been dug up, though he could only guess at what might be brought to light next.
— from The Last of the Peterkins With Others of Their Kin by Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody) Hale

There was a great tendency, derived from Malaysia, especially in New Guinea and Melanesia, to build houses on piles, with platforms rising high above the ground: a most convenient architecture both for defending the dwelling against attack (by drawing up the ladder of approach) and for raising sleeping places above the range of mosquitoes, centipedes, snakes, and damp.
— from Pioneers in Australasia by Harry Johnston

Thus was Otho all but delivered up to justice by the hand of God: for he stood close behind Galba and heard what Umbricius said as he pointed to the entrails.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch