[A; a12] for boats to rock from side to side, rock like a boat.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The bottle or two, indeed, might be more properly described as a bottle or six, for by the time it was drunk, and tea over, the bell began to ring for strangers to withdraw.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Hast thou no regard for such holy men as we are?" "Not a whit," quoth merry Robin Hood, for the fellow was he, "for in sooth all the holiness belonging to rich friars, such as ye are, one could drop into a thimble and the goodwife would never feel it with the tip of her finger.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“Yet bethink thee, reverend father,” said Mont-Fitchet, “the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Without any legal trial, the eunuch Chrysaphius was executed before the gates of the city; and the immense riches which had been accumulated by the rapacious favorite, served only to hasten and to justify his punishment.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Page 114 {114} proper course, as in the previous ending, is to bring the Rooks forward, so that at least one of them may be able to shift from one side of the board to the other, and thus keep Black's Rooks from moving freely.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

I bet if you had had a pimple on your nose, you’d have run to the hospital quick enough, but you have left your boy to rot for six months.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That chief was a descendant of Ānangapāla, who, a century before, had built the Red Fort (Smith, EHI , 386).] 28 .
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

But whatever may have been their reason for seeking Mexico, they were just now a good deal puzzled as to the precise path by means of which they might reach it.
— from The Talking Leaves: An Indian Story by William O. Stoddard

These graves are everywhere by the Amiens-St. Quentin road, by the road from St. Quentin to Cambrai and the road from Eitenham to Bray.
— from The Diggers: The Australians in France by Patrick MacGill

And Rome was now bringing to ripeness fruit sprung from the seed of Hellenism, a decadent and meretricious Hellenism, but even in its decay the greatest intellectual force of the world.
— from Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler

In the City of Paris it is impossible to find a more fashionable quarter than the one which is bounded on the one side by the Rue Faubourg Saint Honore and on the other by the Seine, and commences at the Place de la Concorde and ends at the Avenue de l’Imperatrice.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

That the enormous balances and remissions on that settlement arose from a general collusion between the farmers and collectors, and from a general peculation and embezzlement of the revenues, by which the East India Company was grossly imposed on, in the first instance, by a promised increase of revenue, and defrauded, in the second, not only by the failure of that increase , but by the revenues falling short of what they were in the two years preceding the said settlement to a great amount.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Whatever may have been the reasons for showing these tokens of honour to the remains of Michel, we know not, but the savages seem to have resented the proceedings, for they unearthed his body and gave it to the dogs.
— from The Makers of Canada: Champlain by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne

I suppose he thought that he, as schoolmaster, bore the responsibility for so many, and that you'd thrown yourself at any one in that way, and a poor farm-servant into the bargain, cut him to the quick.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø

It is chill December, and the frost has eaten deep into the ruddy soil of Virginia, but the Rappahannock flows swiftly along, uncrusted by the ice
— from A War-Time Wooing: A Story by Charles King

Seating herself upon the bench where she had been sleeping when Peterkin's voice aroused her, Jerrie untied the package, and then began to read, first slowly, as if weighing every word and sentence, then faster and faster, until at last it seemed that her burning eyes, from which the hot tears were streaming like rain, fairly leaped from page to page, taking in the contents at a glance, and comprehending everything.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes