To make provision for the passing day, on any terms, will soon be impossible.—On the 16th of August, poor Weber heard, at Paris and Versailles, hawkers, 'with a hoarse stifled tone of voice ( voix etouffee, sourde )' drawling and snuffling, through the streets, an Edict concerning Payments ( such was the soft title Rivarol had contrived for it ): all payments at the Royal Treasury shall be made henceforth, three-fifths in Cash, and the remaining two-fifths—in Paper bearing interest!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

but I think, upon the whole, it's better than this; at any rate, it's near a tobacconist's," he added, puffing resignedly at an execrable cigar procured from the landlord of the Sun Inn. George Talboys, who had only consented to the Essex expedition in passive submission to his friend, was by no means inclined to object to their immediate return to London.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

liar, customary, fr. σύν & ἦθος) intercourse; use, custom; an established custom, practice, Jno. 18.39.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

After the rustling of the leaves and the waving of the corn all along the road, it looked as still, as hot, as motionless a little town as England could produce.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Two ablatives absolute often occur together, of which the first indicates the time, circumstances, or cause of the second: as, exaudītō clāmōre perturbātīs ōrdinibus , 2, 11, 5, the ranks being demoralized from hearing the shouts .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

intenta asir el cuchillo para matarme.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Any experienced criminal psychologist will tell you, when you ask him, whether he has been much subject to mistakes in trying to explain women’s crimes from the starting-point of their ennui.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

My breasts, which in the state of nudity are ever capital points, now in no more than in graceful plenitude, maintained a firmness and steady independence of any stay or support, that dared and invited the test of the touch.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

; De Mundo; De Anima; Parva Naturalia; Varia Opuscula, 1587; Alexandri et Cassii Problemata, 1585; Aristotelis et Theophrasti Metaphysica, 1585.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

Hence we say that ransom means an exact corresponding price.
— from The Harp of God: Proof Conclusive That Millions Now Living Will Never Die by J. F. (Joseph Franklin) Rutherford

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— from Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. by John Timbs

that in all, except Copris [Pg 338] and Onthophagus , the anterior tarsi are usually broken off.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

More or less in continuation of the mediæval fashion of covering book-bindings with richly-worked metal overlays, we find, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries particularly, numbers of small books bound in metal or with metal enrichments in the form of centrepieces and cornerpieces.
— from The Book: Its History and Development by Cyril Davenport

Oviedo, who is the earliest authority, at least for any minute account of tobacco-smoking among the native tribes, speaks of it as an evil custom practised among the Indians of Hispaniola to produce insensibility; and greatly prized by the Carribees, who called tobacco kohiba , and “imagined, when they were drunk with the fumes of it, the dreams they had were in some sort inspired.”
— from Prehistoric Man Researches into the Origin of Civilization in the Old and the New World by Wilson, Daniel, Sir

Then the doomed man plunged into the lane, and every comrade plied pike and halberd and sword on him as he passed.
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir