Secondly, it may be derived from the word bu’a , areca-nut, a substance very often used and mentioned in magic, both because it is a narcotic, and a beautiful, vermilion dye.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

At that moment Buckingham was throwing upon a couch a rich toilet robe, worked with gold, in order to put on a blue velvet doublet embroidered with pearls.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The defense was kept up week after week, with stubborn fortitude, in the midst of death, which came in many forms—by bullet, small-pox, cholera, and by various diseases induced by unpalatable and insufficient food, by the long hours of wearying and exhausting overwork in the daily and nightly battle in the oppressive Indian heat, and by the broken rest caused by the intolerable pest of mosquitoes, flies, mice, rats, and fleas.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Like Jesus and other great prophets, Lahiri Mahasaya himself wrote no books, but his penetrating interpretations were recorded and arranged by various disciples.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Mrs. Allan, having already been helped to a bewildering variety, declined it.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And when I put on longer skirts I shall feel that I have to live up to them and be very dignified.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Blake continued: “She’s a stoop-shouldered old woman with a covered basket on her arm, in a black veil, dressed in mourning.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

When you ride through one of these villages at noon-day, you first meet a melancholy dog, that looks up at you and silently begs that you won’t run over him, but he does not offer to get out of the way; next you meet a young boy without any clothes on, and he holds out his hand and says “Bucksheesh!”—he don’t really expect a cent, but then he learned to say that before he learned to say mother, and now he can not break himself of it; next you meet a woman with a black veil drawn closely over her face, and her bust exposed; finally, you come to several sore-eyed children and children in all stages of mutilation and decay; and sitting humbly in the dust, and all fringed with filthy rags, is a poor devil whose arms and legs are gnarled and twisted like grape-vines.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Several of these old Chorales were gradually adopted by various denominations in different countries.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 1 (of 2) by Carl Engel

[219] However, this time I knew about them and pushed on extremely rapidly, cutting across country and keeping to the cornfields where I knew I should never be followed and be very difficult to catch.
— from 13 Days: The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison by John Alan Lyde Caunter

Thus, by the strange and unusual assaults of the tempter, was my soul, like a broken vessel, driven as with the winds, and tossed sometimes headlong into despair, sometimes upon the covenant of works, and sometimes to wish that the new covenant, and the conditions thereof, might, so far forth as I thought myself concerned, be turned another way and changed.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

'Reichenbach will assuredly be vigilant; depend on his answering Grumkow always by the first post.' Continues;—turning his rook-bill towards Majesty now.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle

“Out of the way there!” yelled a hoarse voice as a big vehicle, drawn by four horses, approached where the chums were standing.
— from The Heroes of the School; or, The Darewell Chums Through Thick and Thin by Allen Chapman

They tried to represent the unfortunate woman as being very dangerous: she was free and still very rich; she might become very threatening.
— from The Countess Cosel: A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski

In Jamaica, where they have run wild, and become very destructive to the plantations, they are sometimes caught, Mr. Gosse tells us, by the following stratagem:—A small quantity of corn is steeped for a night in proof rum and is then placed in a shallow vessel, with a little fresh rum, and the water expressed from a bitter cassava grated.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon

And thinking now and then in this fashion, I was all of a sudden asked to undertake a charge such as would once have been my very ideal: and in that noble city where my work began, and so which has always been very dear.
— from The Recreations of a Country Parson by Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd

and immediately adding in a broken voice: "Died by the act of his best friend, Captain Ward Bennett."
— from A Man's Woman by Frank Norris