paralisar v [B16; c1] paralyze, immobilize activities.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The boy's broken playthings, and the old man's broken clay pipes and torn, brandy-and-water-stained newspapers were scattered upon the dirty carpet.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In the Peter collection in the United States National Museum there is to be seen a fine specimen of the Bagdad coffee pot made of beaten copper and used for making and serving; also, a beautiful Turkish coffee set.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Although the official and literal creed still spoke of a day of judgment, a resurrection of the body, and a New Jerusalem, these things were instinctively taken by Christian piety in a more or less symbolic sense.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It will sound strange that dry bread could possibly be a delicacy to any one.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

The chief of the [Pg 332] group, after being ceremoniously painted, goes into a pool of water and sits down there.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

With difficulty he limped up to the door, where a squat, dark, elderly man was smoking a black clay pipe.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Having delivered himself of this gallant conceit, so much in accordance with the taste of the day, the Englishman, approaching the king’s balcony, craved permission to finish the encounter with the axe or brand.
— from The Last of the Barons — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The causes which had led to the change from one form of tenure and cultivation to another of a widely different kind required to be carefully probed, if the Herculean task of a reversion to the earlier system was to be attempted.
— from A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge

Gardiner, Me. Bridgeport, Conn. +Prisoner at Fair Oaks, Va. Wagoners. 1.
— from Roster and Statistical Record of Company D, of the Eleventh Regiment Maine Infantry Volunteers With a Sketch of Its Services in the War of the Rebellion by Albert Maxfield

LITTLE, BROWN & CO., Publishers 34 Beacon Street, Boston Transcriber’s Note: 1.
— from Jacob's Ladder by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

He ix included in it much that would now be called "political" history.
— from Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 1 of 3 by Henry Hallam

The boy replied, ‘From ancient times till now it has always been considered proper for a carriage to turn out for a city, and not for a city to turn out for a carriage.’
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams

It yields in the heart and in the pulmonary veins, to dilatations much greater than those of which it is susceptible in the arteries, in which it would inevitably break, like the proper membrane, if the blood could produce as great differences of size in it, as it does in these organs.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

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— from Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children by W. (William) Houghton

"The people will be coming presently, and you don't want Mr. Chainey to see you with pink rims around your beautiful dark eyes," she said, gayly, and hurried her into the beautiful white dress costly enough for a bride.
— from Kathleen's Diamonds; or, She Loved a Handsome Actor by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

For two days after death, black blood continued to stream from the mouth, as is the case from slow corrosive poison, and three eminent physicians, on hearing of the previous symptoms and the after appearances (Dr. Hale, Sir Alexander Taylor, and Dr. Winslow), gave it as their opinion that those were the usual symptoms and appearances induced by corrosive poison.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare