, among the fruits, mentions apricots ( ourouk ), ripe in June, and so plentiful that to keep them they are dried up to be used like garlic against mountain sickness; melons ( koghoun ) water-melons ( tarbouz , the best are from Hami); vine ( tâl )—the best grapes ( uzum ) come from Boghâz langar, near Keria; the best dried grapes are those from Turfan; peaches ( shaptâlou ); pomegranates ( anár , best from Kerghalyk), etc.; the best apples are those of Nia and Sadju; pears are very bad; cherries and strawberries are unknown.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Kun magangut ang angkla sa dakung batu, lisud na kuháun, If the anchor gets stuck under a big rock, it will be difficult to retrieve it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

budbud linambúran n k.o. budbud made of white and violet colored rice or millet, rolled and wound together.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

ugáhip n a contagious skin disease which forms itchy pustules that pop and become painful, forming a crust, found most commonly around the mouth, but spreading over the body. — likuslikus n k.o. ugáhip that spreads over any part of the body.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That I neither feel how she should be loved, nor know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.
— from Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare

It is pretty to see how strange every body looks, nobody knowing whence this arises; whether from my Lady Castlemayne, Bab.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

'Papa himself,' said Margaret, longing to say something gentle and consoling, but literally not knowing how.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

in stone blood labor (noun) king spur chief slaughter strengthen foot enemy animal father 519.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

in stone blood labor (noun) king spur chief slaughter strengthen foot enemy animal father 275 519.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Norman Katkov (A); 5Apr72; R526416. KATZ, LOUIS N. Elements of electrocardiographic interpretation, with forty plates illustrating the more important deviation from the normal, selected from the files of the Michael Reese Hospital, by Louis N. Katz & Victor Johnson.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

"They bet him there and then that he would neither go to the Barren Lands nor kill a musk-ox when he got there.
— from The Seven Darlings by Gouverneur Morris

Here banished found they mischief-making Loke Beneath the faint arch of young Bifrost sate, His foxy face between large, naked knees; Deep, wily eyes fixed on the darting fish
— from Blooms of the Berry by Madison Julius Cawein

He wants you to tap the British lines near Kroonstad.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar

"It would be like not knowing anything at all … Of course, the best thing would be both."
— from Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May Sinclair

During his residence in Scotland he founded a church on a small island in the beautiful lake now known as Loch Maree, which takes its name from this saint.
— from A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett

Heligoland — Giessen Congress — Leuckart — Visit to Leo Metchnikoff at Geneva — Socialist gatherings — Metchnikoff’s discovery appropriated by Leuckart — Naples — Kovalevsky — Comparative embryology — Embryonic layers — Bakounine and Setchénoff — Cholera at Naples — Göttingen — Anatomical studies — Munich; von Siebold — Music — Return to Naples — Intracellular digestion 43 CHAPTER XII 1867-1868.
— from Life of Elie Metchnikoff, 1845-1916 by Olga Metchnikoff

Tormod Macleod, II. of Harris, who was grandson of Olave the Black, last Norwegian King of Man, and who, as we have seen, had married Christina, daughter of Ferquhard O'Beolan, Earl of Ross, married Finguala Mac Crotan, the daughter of an ancient and powerful Irish chief.
— from History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie