When the man had shut the green gate after him, he walked, as we have said twice already, with a brisk pace up the courtyard; but he no sooner caught sight of Mr. Weller than he faltered, and stopped, as if uncertain, for the moment, what course to adopt.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But iron slippers had already been put upon the fire, and they were brought in with tongs, and set before her.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

v 1 [AN; b] put up curtains.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Cebus azarae , [511] when rejoiced at again seeing a beloved person, utters a peculiar tittering ( kichernden ) sound.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Freely translated, this means, "When people are born, they all start good , but even though they all start out about the same, you ought to see them after they have had time to become different from one another by picking up habits here and there!"
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

"The last Laird of MacNab before the clan finally broke up and emigrated to Canada was," says the Dean in the work just named, "a well-known character in the country; and, being poor, used to ride about on a most wretched horse, which gave occasion to many jibes at his expense.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

try hard, push, make a bold push, use one's best endeavor; do one's best &c. (exertion) 686.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

2 [A; b6] put up with s.t., adjust oneself to s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Nevertheless, as he lived in a spacious house in Golden Square, which, in addition to a brass plate upon the street-door, had another brass plate two sizes and a half smaller upon the left hand door-post, surrounding a brass model of an infant’s fist grasping a fragment of a skewer, and displaying the word ‘Office,’ it was clear that Mr. Ralph Nickleby did, or pretended to do, business of some kind; and the fact, if it required any further circumstantial evidence, was abundantly demonstrated by the diurnal attendance, between the hours of half-past nine and five, of a sallow-faced man in rusty brown, who sat upon an uncommonly hard stool in a species of butler’s pantry at the end of the passage, and always had a pen behind his ear when he answered the bell.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

[A; b6] put up the sail.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) established-26 March 1991 aim-regional economic cooperation members-(4) Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay Statistical Commission established-21 June 1946 aim-Economic and Social Council organization dealing with development and standardization of national statistics of interest to the UN members-(25) selected on a rotating basis from all regions Third World another term for the less developed countries; the term is fading from use; see less developed countries (LDCs) underdeveloped countries refers to those less developed countries with the potential for above-average economic growth; see less developed countries (LDCs) undeveloped countries refers to those extremely poor less developed countries (LDCs) with little prospect for economic growth; see least developed countries (LLDCs) Union Douaniere
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

In searching for eggs both he and Bowers picked up rounded pieces of ice which these ridiculous creatures had been cherishing with fond hope.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

A ball placed upon a little mound for convenience of striking.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

It is not often, in these days, when the pastime of bibliography is reduced to a science, that one is rewarded, as one so often was a quarter of a century ago, by picking up an unregarded treasure on the bookstalls.
— from Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

He purchased some land at Esher, between the village and the common, and, foregoing his usual ponderous style of piling up huge masses of stone and brickwork, put up quite a small and unpretentious brick house upon it.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

Steaming cider poured from his mug, vanished, sucked in at the tree-foot, and left a black patch upon the snow at the hole of the trunk; then he stuck a fragment of sodden toast on a twig; after which the christening song rang out upon the night—ragged at first, but settling into resolute swing and improved time as its music proceeded.
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

Men with handspikes hold back the foot of each post so that the tenons may not slip past the mortises as the huge beams are being pushed up into the air.
— from In Pastures Green by Peter McArthur

At the end of a quarter of an hour, which was passed by Herod in great excitement, walking up and down the floor, and by his guests in silent expectation, the door opened, and the captain of the guard entered, followed by the executioner, who carried a brazen platter upon which lay the gory head of the eloquent forerunner of Christ. "Give it to her!" cried Herod, sternly, waving him towards the beautiful maiden who stood near the inner door.
— from The Prince of the House of David by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

But, then, the reason why such tampering may often terminate in slight results is, because often there is not much to tamper with; the machinery is so slight, and the total range within which it plays is perhaps so narrow, that the difference between its normal action and its widest deviation may, after all, be practically unimportant.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

He knew the gate that was nearest to Gresham Gardens; but it was long before the hour that Hugh Rossiter had mentioned when he reached it, and began pacing up and down like a sentinel on duty.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey