“Will you eat any of these beans, Cousin Porthos?” said Mme.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

[Of locality] beacon, cairn, post, staff, flagstaff, hand, pointer, vane, cock, weathercock; guidepost, handpost[obs3], fingerpost[obs3], directing post, signpost; pillars of Hercules, pharos; bale-fire, beacon- fire; l'etoile du Nord[Fr]; landmark, seamark; lighthouse, balize[obs3]; polestar, loadstar[obs3], lodestar; cynosure, guide; address, direction, name; sign, signboard.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

“It's like being in a besieged castle,” Phyllis said; “look at the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements!”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

busy, C2, P; see Busy .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Her eyes were blue, clear, proud, she gave one altogether the sense of a fine-mettled, scrupulously groomed person, and of an unyielding mind.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

saud v 1 [B256C3; c] press s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

all the other avowed anti-slavery leaders, but for them it mattered less, because they had houses and families of their own; while Sumner had neither wife nor household, and, though the most socially ambitious of all, and the most hungry for what used to be called polite society, he could enter hardly half-a-dozen houses in Boston.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

[360] For many years previous to the streets of London being completely paved, "Slaughter's Coffee-house" was called "The Coffee-house on the Pavement."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Around Polydamas, distain'd with blood, Cebrion, Phalces, stern Orthaeus stood, Palmus, with Polypoetes the divine, And two bold brothers of Hippotion's line (Who reach'd fair Ilion, from Ascania far, The former day; the next engaged in war).
— from The Iliad by Homer

Every one of his compositions has been based upon ideas more or less novel, which, as it seemed to him, needed literary expression; he can claim priority for certain forms and for certain ideas which have since passed into the domain of literature, and have there, in some instances, become common property; so that the date of the first publication of each Study cannot be a matter of indifference to those of his readers who would fain do him justice.
— from The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac

"You are a dear blessed comfort, Polly," said Mrs. Whitney, turning on her pillow with a sigh of relief.
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

[Pg 155] ROSACEAE Black Cherry Prunus serotina Ehrh.
— from Michigan Trees: A Handbook of the Native and Most Important Introduced Species by Charles Herbert Otis

The band commenced playing "Selections," somewhat deafening, perhaps, but then it was too cold to put them out of doors.
— from Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, G. C., Mrs.

1 b´ , c ), presents so irregular a figure, that it can hardly be described; in area it quite equals the scuta; it is slightly concave; at the upper point of the carinal margin, there is a large, rounded, protuberant, roughened knob, which corresponds with a small knob on each side of the inner face of the carina; these knobs seem firmly united together by membrane.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin