She could think of nothing better: and though there was something in it which her own heart could not approve—something of ingratitude, merely glossed over—it must be done, or what would become of Harriet? H2 anchor CHAPTER V Small heart had Harriet for visiting.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The trunk of the external carotid, D, Plate 5, is in all cases very short, and in many bodies can scarcely be said to exist, in consequence of the thyroid, lingual, facial, temporal, and occipital branches, springing directly from almost the same point at which the common carotid gives off the internal carotid artery.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

[ strang ] strengest (AO, CP) v. strang .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Thanks very much for the offer of clothes and a fur coat; I certainly shall require both clothes and coat very soon.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Water 5.00 Starch 85.07 Parenchyma 4.80 Nitrogenous matter 3.68 Crystallizable sugar 0.29 Gummy matter 1.71 Oil 0.13 Phosphate of lime 0.40 Chloride of potash, phosphate of potash, acetic acid, calcareous vegetable salt, salt of potash, sulphur Traces.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The river is Genly about 200 yards wide and Current very Swift to day and has a verry perceptiable fall in all its Course—it rises a little.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

— N. pain; suffering, sufferance, suffrance[obs3]; bodily pain, physical pain, bodily suffering, physical suffering, body pain; mental suffering &c. 828; dolour, ache; aching &c. v.; smart; shoot, shooting; twinge, twitch, gripe, headache, stomach ache, heartburn, angina, angina pectoris[Lat]; hurt, cut; sore, soreness; discomfort, malaise; cephalalgia[Med], earache, gout, ischiagra[obs3], lumbago, neuralgia, odontalgia[obs3], otalgia[obs3], podagra[obs3], rheumatism, sciatica; tic douloureux[Fr], toothache, tormina[obs3], torticollis[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

H2 anchor CHAPTER V Showing the Feelings of Living Property on Changing Owners Mr. and Mrs. Shelby had retired to their apartment for the night.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

This lord, finding himself overcome with pain, being environed with burning coals, pitifully turned his dying eyes towards his master, as it were to ask him pardon that he was able to endure no more; whereupon the king, darting at him a fierce and severe look, as reproaching his cowardice and pusillanimity, with a harsh and constant voice said to him thus only: “And what dost thou think I suffer?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

A certain very successful speaker developed voice carrying power by running across country, practising his speeches as he went.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

At this moment a soft and charming voice spoke: "Sire, are you there?
— from A Royal Prisoner by Pierre Souvestre

And then a crisp voice startled him.
— from Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution by Rafael Sabatini

The wide scene, caught in glimpses through the mantling trees, or opening out in the larger vista of farm beyond farm, or shining in loftier prospect above the tree-tops and the low hills, offers to the ranging eye, many a charming view,—sweet spots of pastoral beauty; jutting capes and copses, or nodding old groves of woodlands; the rich and regular cultivation of spreading plantations, amidst which glisten now a stately [187] mansion, and now a snug farm-house, each decorated with its peculiar growth of trees for shade or fruit; and far away, mountain regions, whose heights, and whose rude and massy but undefined forms, suggest to the fancy the savage grandeur of that remoter landscape which the eye knows to be there, though it mocks the sight with what is so different.
— from Homes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

It represents a tall man, with long hair and a pointed beard, in a richly-chased doublet, a lace ruff and cuffs, very short and fringed trunk hose, and a sword by his side.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

TREATMENT: Very unsuccessful, although an operation proves beneficial in some cases, but if this is attempted, the services of a competent Veterinarian should be secured.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

If his claim seemed a new one, if his avowed leaning to ancient and Catholic views seemed to make him more tolerant than had been customary, not to Roman abuses, but to Roman authoritative language, it was part of the more accurate and the more temperate and charitable thought of our day compared with past times.
— from The Oxford Movement; Twelve Years, 1833-1845 by R. W. (Richard William) Church

The provost and constables vainly strove to hinder these acts of violence.
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann

But in any case the probability would have been greatly increased that the first battle of the war should be the last and that the country by quick and complete victory should be spared four years of desolating war that threw homes by scores of thousands into the shadow.
— from The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 1 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History by George Cary Eggleston