= put up a pin = form the picot = continue the plait to point 9 = connect the plait with the bobbins of points 9 and 7 = make 4 linen passings with 3 pairs = continue the plait
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Ákung bunútun ang madyungan, I’ll draw a piece from the mahjong set.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"You are cold, are you, you rascal?" said one of the robbers: "I'll warm you with a vengeance;" and, damning his eyes, snapped a pistol at his head; which he had no sooner done than the other levelled a blow at him with his stick, which Joseph, who was expert at cudgel-playing, caught with his, and returned the favour so successfully on his adversary, that he laid him sprawling at his feet, and at the same instant received a blow from behind, with the butt end of a pistol, from the other villain, which felled him to the ground, and totally deprived him of his senses.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Gentlemen, which means boys, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

In her youth, in ‘93, she had married a monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from the Bernardines to the Jacobins.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He commenced making a pond for the reception of all the hot streams from Baiae, which he designed to have continued from Misenum to the Avernian lake, in a conduit, enclosed in galleries; and also a canal from Avernum to Ostia, that ships might pass from one to the other, without a sea voyage.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A little later, when a maid slipped in to light the candles, Petronella said out of the shadows, "When Jenkins goes to the post-office, I have a parcel for the mail."
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

This process seams to be continued longer with their female than their male children, and neither appears to Suffer any pain from the opperation.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I shall certainly see him to-morrow, although perhaps for the last time.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

which wax, if melted on with hot irons, would act as a preservative for the marble.
— from How to judge architecture: a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings by Russell Sturgis

Many pious saints had visited the district, but not one had been able by his virtue to expel the Dragon; and the farmers and country folk used to repeat a legend that said the Dragon was a punishment for the great wickedness of the Baron’s ancestor, the original Sir Godfrey Disseisin, who, when summoned on the first Crusade to Palestine, had entirely refused to go and help his cousin Godfrey de Bouillon wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the Paynim.
— from The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale by Owen Wister

Murphy gritted his teeth, got a good toe hold, and prepared for the next.
— from Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team; or, Bitter Struggles on the Diamond by Lester Chadwick

Still, however, Cecil kept him in view, and at length, after a diligent and arduous pursuit, fairly traced him to the avenue to Blackheath.
— from Hildebrand; or, The Days of Queen Elizabeth, An Historic Romance, Vol. 2 of 3 by Anonymous

The pronunciation was, in Eliote's opinion, one of the chief difficulties of this difficult language, "deemed a jewel, so dearly bought, and so much desired by all"; and he considered that, with the help of Ramus and Peletier for the pronunciation, he had succeeded in reducing "the gulf of difficulties into a small stream" by "sounding the French by our English alphabet."
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

She now looked upon Sir George as Mrs. Gaunt's representative, and prattled freely to him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

This likewise struck me as peculiar, for the deference he displayed was more marked than that usually bestowed on strangers, while his lack of surprise at an encounter more or less startling in such a mist was calculated to puzzle an ordinary man like myself.
— from The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green

The government refused its patronage to his plans for the fur trade; but M. Colbert sent him to confer with La Chesnaye, a prominent fur trader and member of the Council in New France, who happened to be in Paris at that time.
— from Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. Laut