lugituk v [B46; b6] for cereals to be half-cooked but moist.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[ Ger. kien] cendlic = cynlic cēne bold, brave, fierce , CP, Lcd, Ma ; Æ, AO: powerful , VPs : learned, clever , Met 10 51 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

banyira n tub or big basin for children to take a bath in or for washing clothes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The oil takes away the marks of the skin and flesh by bruises, falls, &c. and dissolves the congealed blood in them.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Well might [4881] Sterpsichores be blind for carping at so fair a creature, and a just punishment it was.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

bisgù v [B; b6] for children to be fussy and troublesome.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Door-gods, Civil and Military Chinese Polytheism That the names of the gods of China are legion will be readily conceded when it is said that, besides those already described, those still to be mentioned, and many others to whom space will not permit us to refer, there are also gods, goddesses, patrons, etc., of wind, rain, snow, frost, rivers, tides, caves, trees, flowers, theatres, horses, oxen, cows, sheep, goats, dogs, pigs, scorpions, locusts, gold, tea, salt, compass, archery, bridges, lamps, gems, wells, carpenters, masons, barbers, tailors, jugglers, nets, wine, bean-curd, jade, paper-clothing, eye, ear, nose, tongue, teeth, heart, liver, throat, hands, feet, skin, architecture, rain-clothes, monkeys, lice, Punch and Judy, fire-crackers, cruelty, revenge, manure, fornication, shadows, corners, Page 175 gamblers, oculists, smallpox, liver complaint, stomach-ache, measles, luck, womb, midwives, hasteners of child-birth, brigands, butchers, furnishers, centipedes, frogs, stones, beds, candle-merchants, fishermen, millers, wig-merchants, incense-merchants, spectacle-makers, cobblers, harness-makers, seedsmen, innkeepers, basket-makers, chemists, painters, perfumers, jewellers, brush-makers, dyers, fortune-tellers, strolling singers, brothels, varnishers, combs, etc., etc.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Oh, darling mouth, and eye, And royal mien, and bright brave faces clear, May you be blessèd, but not here!
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

He informed his nephew that the shade of Phryxus had appeared to him in his dreams, and entreated him to bring back from Colchis his mortal r
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

“‘Do you think broiling blue fish comes by nature?’ said the cobbler.
— from Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking by Susan Warner

They were not Libyans from the neighbourhood of Carthage, who had long composed the third army, but nomads from the tableland of Barca, bandits from Cape Phiscus and the promontory of Dernah, from Phazzana and Marmarica.
— from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

The Fantails which are now found in India probably show the state of the race, as far as carriage is concerned, at the date of their introduction into Europe; and some, said to have been brought from Calcutta, which I kept alive, were in a marked manner inferior to our exhibition birds.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Charles Darwin

We’ll let him suppose that Mademoiselle Thuillier is a worthy soul who allows Claparon to use her name; they’ll both be fooled, Claparon and the notary too.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The Hindoo, like the Catholic, has numbers of festivals, which greatly diminish the number of his actual working days; the daily ceremonies prescribed by Brahminism further curtail the most precious hours of labour; his exclusively vegetarian food not alone prevents the proper development of his muscular power, but also by its ostentatiously morbid delicacy, brings him constantly into collision with the social order of a Christian household.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

It must have been a beastly business, for Costobell was sweating with rage, though his words were icy enough.
— from The Wings of the Morning by Louis Tracy

Bloom, Samuel S. Lieutenant H 111th Infantry Bear, Elias C 122nd Infantry Baer, Benjamin F. Captain F 122nd Infantry Served three years.
— from The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen by Simon Wolf

[25] It is manifest, we think, that when the natives attach the attributes of fatherhood and antiquity to Baiame, they need not be borrowing from Christian art notions so natural, nay, so inevitable, in their own stage of society.
— from Magic and Religion by Andrew Lang

It was hot where we sat, for the brilliant Italian sun beat straight down upon us, therefore, without replying to me, he rose and invited us into his cool little cell, a square bare room with boarded floor, the furniture consisting of a low, old-fashioned wooden bedstead, with a piece of old brown blanket for coverlet, a Renaissance prie-dieu in old carved oak, black with age, a chair, a hanging lamp, and upon the wall a great crucifix.
— from As We Forgive Them by William Le Queux