2 [AN; a] strip the outer part of abaca to get the fibers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This information made Elizabeth smile, as she thought of poor Miss Bingley.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“Besides,” he said, “no rascally priest has any right to cut off good Christians from communion with the Saviour, and we are sure that our patriarch will give us absolution and send us some more monks.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His ardour straight the obedient prince suppress'd, And, artful, thus the suitor-train address'd: "O lay the cause on youth yet immature! (For heaven forbid such weakness should endure!)
— from The Odyssey by Homer

He felt a sharp twinge of pain.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Nushirvan believed, or at least respected, the religion of the Magi; and some traces of persecution may be discovered in his reign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Notes used to come from him in which he asked to be sent at the same time a book on chemistry, a text-book of medicine, a novel, and some treatise on philosophy or theology.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There were notes in which he demanded at the same time books on chemistry, and a manual of medicine, and a novel, and some treatise on philosophy or theology.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The little girl soon came up closer against her knees, and leaning on them with her arms, she looked up with her large blue eyes, while a small thread of pure saliva dribbled from her lips on to the silk apron.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In the course of the last few years the Anglo-Americans have penetrated into this province, which is still thinly peopled; they purchase land, they produce the commodities of the country, and supplant the original population.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

We also are confident that you will be remembrancers to that famous City of London , and the whole Kingdom, of their Engagement to the LORD, in the solemn League and Covenant: Nor will we suffer our selves to believe that the wel-affected in the Houses of Parliament, In the City of London , and throughout that whole Kingdom will agree or harken to the motions of any such Treaty of Peace, as leaves out the best security for Religion, the Cause of GOD, and the solemn League and Covenant.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

The page was dismissed, with an imperative command of silence, and solemn threatenings of punishment should he presume to violate it.
— from The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Alessandro Manzoni

A "constitution" also was drawn up—which obtains to this day—and in that it was set down that the object of the Hospital was threefold:—"(1) The Medical and Surgical Treatment of Poor Children; (2) The Attainment and Diffusion of Knowledge regarding the Diseases of Children; and (3) The Training of Nurses for Children."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, Issue 02, February 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

[126] Mr. Barlow has attempted to form a synoptical table of pelvic distortion.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Over near the battery just mentioned stood General Lawton, tall and erect, directing every movement, without a single thought of personal danger.
— from The Campaign of the Jungle; Or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

Often I sat on a little cricket at his feet, and listened to tales of battles, scoutings, and starving; how he had been obliged to live on raw wheat, which produced evil results, and beheld General Washington and other great men, and had narrow escapes from Indians, and been at the capturing of a fort by moonlight, and seen thousands of pounds’ worth of stores destroyed.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland

If we then find that the globe we inhabit has its polar region frozen and covered with mountains of ice and snow, that only partially melt when alternately exposed to the sun, I may well be permitted to surmise that the same causes may probably have the same effect on the globe of Mars; that the bright polar spots are owing to the vivid reflection of light from frozen regions; and that the reduction of these spots is to be ascribed to their being exposed to the sun."
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

"It looks so dry and hard here, and children, poor things, is fond of flowers," and Timmins sighed as she thought of poor Tibbie.
— from Rose Clark by Fanny Fern

Upon this I fell in with the 300 horse, and cleared my major from a party who charged him in the flank; the dragoons immediately lighting, one party of them comes up on my wing, and saluting the enemy with their muskets, put them to a stand, the other party of dragoons wheeling to the left endeavouring to get behind them.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe