lupù 1 n k.o. small blackish fish with lightly toxic dorsal spines, often found on the bottom in fresh or brackish waters: Gymnapistes niger .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

B. 7 ch. 4 sect 2.] and accompanied David, who was anointed to succeed him, and who consulted God by it frequently, and complied with its directions constantly [1 Samuel 14:37, 41; 15:26; 22:13, 15; 23:9, 10; 30:7, 8, 18; 2 Samuel 2:1; 5:19, 23; 21:1; 23:14; 1 Chronicles 14:10, 14; Antiq.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He has been teazing me to allow of his coming into this country, and lodging somewhere near INCOG.; but I forbade everything of the kind.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

Troy reached the tent door, and standing among the groups there gathered, looked anxiously for Pennyways, evidently not wishing to make himself prominent by inquiring for him.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Besides I felt sure that if he took an interest in the fair recluse he would be certain to find her a husband.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A mere physical gulf they could bridge; or at least I could bridge it for them (the earth is full of Devil's Bridges); but the gulf of dislike is impassable and eternal.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Blame is frequently expressed in the Çatapatha Brāhmaṇa of the Adhvaryu priests of the Charaka school.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

As for discontentments, they are in the politic body like to humors in the natural, which are apt to gather a preternatural heat and to inflame; and let no prince measure the danger of them by this, whether they be just or unjust; for that were to imagine people to be too reasonable, who do often spurn at their own good; nor yet by this, whether the griefs whereupon they rise be in fact great or small; for they are the most dangerous discontentments where the fear is greater than the feeling: “Dolendi modus, timendi non item.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

byrnan (Æ) = biernan byrne I. f. corslet , WW ; CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

His counsel sounded good, and the others agreed with him, thereby letting themselves and the patient Brodie in for some remarkable developments in a pursuit which began by a simple coincidence and was destined to end in a manner which none of them dreamed of.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

And now, you see, I prefer my husband to my brun ; in fact, Loulou, I adore him, and I am furiously jealous about him.
— from Balcony Stories by Grace Elizabeth King

And thus Perkin, missing of his purpose, fled backe into Flanders.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (3 of 6): England (7 of 9) Henrie the Seauenth, Sonne to Edmund Earle of Richmond, Which Edmund was Brother by the Moothers Side to Henrie the Sixt by Raphael Holinshed

The young cornet narrowly escaped being trampled to pieces by his comrades as they swept by in full career.
— from With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne by Richard Stead

And Hanamel son of my uncle came to me in the guard-court and said, Buy my field that is [pg 288] Anathoth, for the right of inheritance is thine and thine the redemption; buy it for thyself.
— from Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by George Adam Smith

“You can see yourself that it would be impossible for Carin and me to be happy with you leaving that way, all hurt and angry.
— from Annie Laurie and Azalea by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

The room was a large, old-fashioned chamber, full of dark corners and unsuspected alcoves; and the lamp on the bureau served only to intensify the shadows that lay beyond its faint illumination.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"I went out to catch cattle-thieves," he said, with a sigh, "but I found there were other kinds of thieves abroad.
— from A Voice in the Wilderness by Grace Livingston Hill

He left Mrs. Gresham to her correspondence and went out of the house; wondering as he walked if she wanted him to do the same thing his mother wanted, so that her words had been intended for a prick—whether even the two ladies had talked over their desire together.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

Joy, because it was not I who was loathsome to her; sorrow, because she stood there helpless and alone, and because I felt myself unable to help her.
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking