[A; a12] put off doing s.t. to a later time.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

2 [a12] put off doing s.t. to wait for s.o.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The following is what a person one day said to such a one very appositely: "If you continue to talk in this manner, you will really make me religious."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

But after they had amused themselves thus for some time, I said, “My dear girls, I care more for your honour than your beauty; but do not think I am going to shut myself in a piece of dead skin to prove that I am alive.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For a real marvel watch a pair of diving spiders weave their balloon-like nest under water and actually carry air down to fill it, so that the young may be dry though submerged.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

When the schoolmaster got back Sue was making a pretence of doing some housewifery as if she lived there.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I noticed, by the by, that although Mr. Micawber was just as much confused as ever about my age and standing, he always remembered, as a genteel thing, that I was a pupil of Doctor Strong’s. Mrs. Micawber was amazed, but very glad to see me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Such a profusion of detail suggested fiction, and I realised, of course, that she had no chaperon with her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the year 1340, during the reign of Edward III., we find him at the age of sixteen a student in Merton College at Oxford,—the college then most distinguished for Scholastic doctors; the college of Islip, of Bradwardine, of Occam, and perhaps of Duns Scotus.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

"The boots are a couple of sizes too large," he added, as he pulled them on over a pair of dry socks; "but they'll keep out the wet and cold, anyway."
— from Harper's Young People, January 3 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Luther and I, closely followed by the two guards that had trailed us from the time we had got inside the station, climbed into a freight car, apparently used as a box stall on the out trip, and bare except for a pile of damp straw in one corner.
— from The Log of a Noncombatant by Horace Green

The archbishop emphasised his point by stating that “in default of such instruction it happens that most of the monks celebrating mass and performing other divine service are wholly ignorant of what they read, to the great scandal and disgrace both of religion in general and the monastery in particular.”
— from Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry

The preamble sets forth that the Regidor Don Lorenzo de Evia, by a writing that he presented to his majesty, made a narrative showing that at sixteen leagues from Merida, and three from the sierra of the village of Ticul, were certain meadows and places named Uxmalchecaxek, Tzemehan-Cemin-Curea-Kusultzac, Exmuue-Hixmon-nec, uncultivated and belonging to the crown, which the Indians could not profit by for tillage and sowing, and which could only serve for horned cattle; that the said regidor had a wife and children whom it was necessary for him to maintain for the service of the king in a manner conforming to his office, and that he wished to stock the said places and meadows with horned cattle, and praying a grant of them for that purpose in the name of his majesty, since no injury could result to any third person, but, " on the contrary, very great service to God our Lord, because with that establishment it would prevent the Indians in those places from worshipping the devil in the ancient buildings which are there, having in them their idols, to which they burn copal, and performing other detestable sacrifices, as they are doing every day notoriously and publicly. "
— from Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

312 She glanced up at him with a pretense of dread such as a child might show; she was pleased to be alluringly gracious, but he could feel that she was more nervous than she had ever shown herself before––the strain was telling on her.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan