‘ between ,’ BH : in the meantime, meanwhile : in turn, by turns , CM (-twȳn-).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

He must keep the ankle of the foot on the ice quite firm; not attempting to gain the edge of the skate by bending it, because the right mode of getting to either edge is by the inclination of the whole body in the direction required; and this inclination should be made fearlessly and decisively.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The World is so altered of late Years, that there was not a Man who would knock down a Watchman in my Behalf, but I was carried off with as much Triumph as if I had been a Pick-pocket.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

A lash like mine no honest man shall dread, But all such babbling blockheads in his stead.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

can you?—I can, I do, said he; and I have nothing to do, but to hide from you, not a brother, but a murderer, and a profligate, unworthy of your relation; and let me be consigned to penitence for my past evils: A penitence, however, that shall not be broken in upon by so violent an accuser.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Holy relics were thrown into the waters, and the place was finally sanctified by baptism in the name of Saint Sebastian.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

This passage is not given in the abridged Story of the "Odyssey" at the beginning of the book, but in the Translation it occurs in these words: "Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side then on the other, that he may get it cooked as soon as possible; even so did he turn himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single-handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men as the wicked suitors.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

If his term of imprisonment be short—I mean comparatively, for short it cannot be—the last half year is almost worse than all; for then he thinks the prison will take fire and he be burnt in the ruins, or that he is doomed to die within the walls, or that he will be detained on some false charge and sentenced for another term: or that something, no matter what, must happen to prevent his going at large.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Those who so confidently tell us that the soul always actually thinks, I would they would also tell us, what those ideas are that are in the soul of a child, before or just at the union with the body, before it hath received any by sensation.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Called up to the office and much against my will I rose, my head aching mightily, and to the office, where I did argue to good purpose for the King, which I have been fitting myself for the last night against Mr. Wood about his masts, but brought it to no issue.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The report says: 'It is likewise to be borne in mind that there is in France no compulsory observance of Sunday, and no day of habitual rest.'
— from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future by Helen Campbell

The Bahamas BF BS BHS 044 BS Bahrain BA BH BHR 048 BH Baker Island FQ — — — — ISO includes with the US Minor Outlying Islands Bangladesh BG BD BGD 050 BD Barbados BB BB BRB 052 BB Bassas da India BS — — — — ISO includes with the Miscellaneous (French)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I am trying to be entirely willing to peril life and limb on the field of battle, but instead of placing me where I can do this, and allowing me to concentrate all my energies upon that object, I am kept for months chafing under the petty tyrannies of a bullying officer, and deprived of most of the comforts that I have heretofore regarded as necessary to my existence.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

The river ran cobalt blue between its brown banks, bare but for the patches of snow that lay here and there in unsunned hollows.
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Then while recovering from our first delirium of pleasure, we had time for a few words of mutual praise and admiration of improvements in both; but it was not until I had fucked her four times, and made her spend at least twice as often, that we found time to enter into close converse upon past events.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

But before I say a word about this school, I shall go back to where I should have begun, and give you a hint as to who I am; for it may be that these words of mine may be read by some folk beyond the border country who never heard of the Calders of West Inch.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

Being baulked in this endeavour, he ran off with the college spoons.
— from Cambridge and Its Colleges by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson

My heart misgave me for a moment when I saw the mellow red varnish blistering off the back, but I put my regret resolutely aside.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner