Nakaáwut na ang pitsir ug duha, The pitcher has already struck two batters out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Handzeichen versehen signed or initialled Unterschrift signature Unterschriftenkarte signature card Unterschriftenprobe specimen signature Unterschriftenverzeichnis list of authorized signatures Unterschriftsbeglaubigung confirmation of signature Unterschriftsberechtigung authority to sign Unterschriftsberechtigung power to sign Unterschriftsprobe specimen signature unterschwellig subliminal unterschwellige Werbung subliminal advertising unterstreichen underline unterstützen back up unterstützen; Unterstützung support unterstützende Werbung auxiliary advertising Unterstützung backing Unterstützung support Unterstützung aller Beteiligten assistance to all parties Unterstützung durch den Staat state assistance Unterstützung durch die Gemeinde municipal assistance Unterstützung durch die Regierung governmental assistance untersuchen check Untersuchung fact-finding Untersuchung inquiry of fact Untersuchung investigation Untersuchung der Büroeffizienz organization and methods Untersuchung der Lebenshaltungskosten family expenditure survey Untersuchung der
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

For a like reason people in Celebes and the Moluccas are much afraid of planting a post upside down at the building of a house; for the forest-spirit, who might still be in the timber, would very naturally resent the indignity and visit the inmates with sickness.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Men turned things social and political upside down to see how they looked in that position.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

In one of these Kings on horseback Andrea portrayed Uguccione della Faggiuola of Arezzo, in a figure which is holding its nose with one hand in order not to feel the stench of the dead and corrupted Kings.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

"and pluck up drowned honor by the locks"
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

—This fable regards the unfortunate end of those promising youths, who, like sons of the morning, elate with empty hopes and glittering outsides, attempt things beyond their strength; challenge the bravest heroes; provoke them to the combat; and, proving unequal, die in their high attempts.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

True it is I am a gentleman of known house, of estate and property, and entitled to the five hundred sueldos mulct; and it may be that the sage who shall write my history will so clear up my ancestry and pedigree that I may find myself fifth or sixth in descent from a king; for I would have thee know, Sancho, that there are two kinds of lineages in the world; some there be tracing and deriving their descent from kings and princes, whom time has reduced little by little until they end in a point like a pyramid upside down; and others who spring from the common herd and go on rising step by step until they come to be great lords; so that the difference is that the one were what they no longer are, and the others are what they formerly were not.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In the year 156, Marcus Aurelius Verus, the fourteenth emperor after Augustus, governed the empire with his brother Aurelius Comodus; in whose time, Glutherius, a holy man, being pope of the church of Rome, Lucius, king of Britaines, wrote unto him, desiring that by his commandment he might be made Christian; which his request was granted him; whereby the Britaines receiving then the faith, kept it sound and undefiled in rest and peace until Dioclesian the emperor’s time.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Among other interesting features, this castle contained a particularly unpleasant dungeon divided into sixteen cells, all communicating with one another, as shown in the illustration.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

In London there is always enough food for the small creatures, and even in the hardest winter, when blackbirds and thrushes and all kinds of other birds, unsuspected residents many of them, are picked up dead in the parks and gardens, the sparrow is not pinched.
— from Birds of the wave and woodland by Phil Robinson

[189] "Animals and Plants under Domestication," vol.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

Before we begin work, however, I wish to return thanks to Him who has guided and protected us during our voyage across the ocean.
— from Waihoura, the Maori Girl by William Henry Giles Kingston

Another important function of the aëroplane and the aërial camera is to explore and prospect undeveloped districts.
— from Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours With a Discussion of Aircraft in Commerce and Transportation by Brown, Arthur Whitten, Sir

There is no particle of trimming about this monstrous capote, as they call it—it is just a plain, ugly dead-blue mass of sail, and a woman can’t go within eight points of the wind with one of them on; she has to go before the wind or not at all.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Several States reform their divorce laws, and Pennsylvania adopts Southern ideas giving divorce for a previous unchastity discovered after marriage.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

[34] Mr. Brent in Journal of Horticulture , 1861, p. 76; quoted by Darwin, Animals and Plants under Domestication , vol.
— from Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications by Alfred Russel Wallace

With amazing perseverance under difficulties, he succeeded in collecting money and men, and, without military education or genius, made his attempt.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders by John Lord

Love, as per usual, dear Bean.
— from Marjorie Dean Macy's Hamilton Colony by Josephine Chase