“No, Herbert; or, at least, they were what might be called provisional castaways.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

2 in set phrases : balintayins, birtdi, krismas, pus — Valentine’s, birthday, Christmas, post card.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Priscian sen va con quella turba grama, e Francesco d'Accorso anche; e vedervi, s'avessi avuto di tal tigna brama, colui potei che dal servo de' servi fu trasmutato d'Arno in Bacchiglione, dove lascio` li mal protesi nervi.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

it entered into these, which, by certain partial combinations called “triplication,” became various products ( vikāra ) or phenomena.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Legree fled frantically into the parlor, whither, in a few moments, he was followed by Cassy, pale, calm, cold as an avenging spirit, and with that same fearful light in her eye.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Its value as an instrument of research consists in that it allows the investigator to put questions which he formulates to himself in abstracto , but can put concretely to the native informant.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I spent months in trying to trace them, and at last, after many doubtings and difficulties, I discovered that the original seller had been Captain Peter Carey, the owner of this hut.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He cannot help but consider present conditions, he cannot consider them without being stirred to speculate upon what the outcome must be, and he cannot speculate on the outcome without in some manner endeavoring to make it as he would like it to be.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Venit si Rhetor ineptus, Limata et tersa, et qui bene cocta petit, Claude citus librum; nulla hic nisi ferrea verba, Offendent stomachum quae minus apta suum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Gere , sb. gear, apparel, property, material, business, CM, PP, C, C2, C3, S2; geare , S3; ger , C, S3; geeres , pl. , habits, manners, C.—Cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 18 min., sd., color, 35 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

We'll hire a wagon, and drive to ole Broad Creek 'piscopal church on the way, and there I'll have you married to Huldy."
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 86 min., sd., color, 35 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

THE BOY CHUMS' PERILOUS CRUISE; or, Searching for Wreckage on the Florida Coast.
— from The Boy Chums in the Forest; Or, Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by Wilmer M. (Wilmer Mateo) Ely

But to those who must confess with bitter anguish that they are perfectly isolated from the soul of the world, and that the closest human love encloses a potential germ of estrangement or hatred, that all personal relation is finite, conditional, mixed ( vide in Dana's "Household Book of Poetry," stanzas by C. P. Cranch, "Thought is deeper than speech," etc., etc.), it may not prove such an unfruitful substitute.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James

Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 17 min., sd., color, 35 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

It was a faint but constant pearl-coloured cloud.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

Released by Columbia Pictures Corp. 101 min., sd., Eastman color by Pathé, 35 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

There, on the floor, lay gold and bank notes, scattered in every direction amid broken chairs, playing cards, and struggling men.
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

In what way?' 'By chance, pure chance.' 'By chance?
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing