'But when I tell you she expressly desired that you might not be told—' 'I am not good or patient enough to submit to the prohibition.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

aláyun n group of people who work together on jobs on a more or less permanent basis.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Santu Pápa, The people flocked to see the Pope. -an n group of people going s.w. ganda n k.o. leek: Allium odorum .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I am not going on principle, not to take part in the revolt
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He can either (not disclosing the fact of his illegitimacy, and not attempting to prove that he is a descendant of any kind from any one else) apply for and obtain a new grant of Page 516 {516} arms on his own basis, and worry through the College the grant of a coat as closely following in design that of the old family as he can get, which means that he would be treated and penalised with such alterations (not "marks of distinction") as would be imposed upon a stranger in blood endeavouring to obtain arms founded upon a coat to which he had no right.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

All the same Juliana Maria had some difficulty in getting the King to consent to a new guardian, or “personal attendant,” as he was called, to take Brandt’s place.
— from A Queen of Tears, vol. 2 of 2 Caroline Matilda, Queen of Denmark and Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

A new genus of Pennsylvanian fish (Crossopterygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas.
— from Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Ray D. Burkett

A new genus of Pennsylvanian Fish (Crossopterygii, Coelacanthiformes) from Kansas.
— from Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch

Froude was the energetic and wilful partner of Newman in the new enterprise: Froude, who with far less genius, far less personal tact and persuasiveness, and no gift of public or pulpit suasion, such as Newman possessed in a wonderful degree, was a man of intense and resolute character, of great logical daring, of unsparing pugnacity, of far-reaching ideas, whom Newman, and, as we have seen, Keble also, greatly admired and even loved, though he was loved by few besides.
— from Hurrell Froude: Memoranda and Comments by Louise Imogen Guiney

The other protrusion which swells into a globose germ cell, and which corresponds to the pistil of a flower, contains a mass of green endochrome, which, after being fertilized by the snake-like filaments, becomes a primordial cell which has no motion, but after having secreted a strong coating of cellulose, it sinks to the bottom of the water, becomes a winter or resting spore, and lays the foundation for a new generation of plants.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

When the music played, Amelia, who stood next to the doctor, said to him in a whisper, "I hope I am not guilty of profaneness; but, in pursuance of that chearful chain of thoughts with which you have inspired me this afternoon, I was just now lost in a reverie, and fancied myself in those blissful mansions which we hope to enjoy hereafter.
— from Amelia — Volume 3 by Henry Fielding

Therefore, the womanhood of our country, as organized and concentrated, holds to-day in its hands a power which it must exercise with discretion and moderation, or there will result from its unregulated exertion chaos and cataclysm; yet a power which, properly exerted, will tend ever to the positing of higher standards of morality and nobler goals of power, and generally to the upward as well as the onward march of our nation and kind.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus

It is well known that oak, slowly and naturally grown on poor soil, is far more durable than that which is run up artificially or produced on rich land.
— from Grain and Chaff from an English Manor by Arthur Herbert Savory