tirbisíya v 1 [B26; b8] miscarry, result in failure.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Make me not sighted like the basilisk; I have look'd on thousands who have sped the better By my regard, but kill'd none so.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He that should be admitted on a sudden to the sight of such a palace as that of Escurial in Spain, or to that which the Moors built at Granada, Fontainebleau in France, the Turk's gardens in his seraglio, wherein all manner of birds and beasts are kept for pleasure; wolves, bears, lynxes, tigers, lions, elephants, &c., or upon the banks of that Thracian Bosphorus: the pope's Belvedere in Rome, [3249] as pleasing as those horti pensiles in Babylon, or that Indian king's delightsome garden in [3250] Aelian; or [3251] those famous gardens of the Lord Cantelow in France, could, not choose, though he were never so ill paid, but be much recreated for the time; or many of our noblemen's gardens at home.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then as they fled, Peisistratos devised a very skilful counsel, to the end that the Athenians might not gather again into one body but might remain scattered abroad.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

Ain't I got a daughter of my own!' With that flourish, and seeming to have talked himself rather more drunk and much more ferocious than he had begun by being, Mr Riderhood took up his pint pot and swaggered off to the taproom.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Although it was not very evident to onlookers, I had been, and still was, shaken to the very depths of my being by my recent experiences.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The flowers stand at the top of the stalk, branched forth in many long spiked leaves of flowers bowing or turning like the turnsole, all opening for the most part on the one side, which are long and hollow, turning up the brims a little, of a purplish violet colour in them that are fully blown, but more reddish while they are in the bud, as also upon their decay and withering; but in some places of a paler purplish colour, with a long pointel in the middle, feathered or parted at the top.
— 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

The work of cleansing the monument had been left unfinished, and the person by whom it had been begun might return to complete it.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Why so?” “Because, though I am not a baron by birth, my real name is, at least, Danglars.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"The Lord hath delivered us into the bonds of the heathen," he said, "and yet his name shall be blessed beneath my roof!
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

I tell the man who doubts the power of the Bible, because many read it, and are no better for the reading, that the abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

[Pg 426] attorney in Boston by Mr. Roosevelt.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

When their breathing became more regular, the Utway brothers roused Sherlock and pushed on.
— from The Mystery at Camp Lenape by Carl Saxon

Lorenzo Oatman—His Stay at Fort Yuma—Goes with Dr. Hewit to San Francisco—His constant Misery on Account of his Sisters—Dark Thoughts—Cold Sympathy—Goes to the Mines—Resolves to go to Los Angeles to learn, if possible, of his Sisters—His earnest but fruitless Endeavors—The Lesson—Report brought by Mr. Roulit of two Captives among the Mohaves—The false Report of Mr. Black—Mr. Grinell—Petitions the Governor—Petitions Congress—The Report of the Rescue of Olive—Mr. Low 238 CHAPTER VII.
— from Captivity of the Oatman Girls Being an Interesting Narrative of Life Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by R. B. (Royal Byron) Stratton

She offered them wine, but both men refused, so she smilingly gave her hand again without striving to detain them.
— from Cleo The Magnificent; Or, The Muse of the Real: A Novel by Louis Zangwill

The difficulties of the roads to the outer world being what they are (not to speak of the certainty of opposition at the other end), the intending emigrants rarely set out in small bodies, but move restlessly within their own borders until they are grown to a horde, which famine and hostility at home compel at last to leave Arabia.
— from The Ancient East by D. G. (David George) Hogarth