—The fruit of this species of pepper plant is called agí in Cuba and Porto Rico; it is in common use as a condiment in the Philippines.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Continuing Action Completed Action P r i m a r y
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The term BOBBY is, however, older than the Saturday Reviewer , in his childish and petulant remarks, imagines.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The wisdom of my instruction consists in liberty, in truth, in essence: disdaining to introduce those little, feigned, common, and provincial rules into the catalogue of its real duties; all natural, general, and constant, of which civility and ceremony are daughters indeed, but illegitimate.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Jeanette would be there, pouring coffee, and perhaps Ridgeley if he had no calls.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

On the contrary, he broke out in a fine flame of wrath against Lord Hervey, whom he evidently considered the chief offender, challenged his enemy to disavow the Epistle , and on his declining to do so, proceeded to make what he called "a proper reply" in a prose Letter to a Noble Lord .
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

"She's biding at home doing nothing now, I know, and I'll tell her we be here, and ask her to come; and perhaps Retty is well enough now.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Their religion contributed to it only because it was simpler, freer from superstition, nearer to a clean and pleasant regimen in life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He was surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition under Colonel Chesney, and published Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldæa (1838); Travels in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, and Armenia (1842); Travels in the Track of the Ten Thousand Greeks (1844), &c. Died 1896.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

There can be little doubt however that their chief and primary reference is to the orders of the celestial hierarchy, as conceived by these Gnostic Judaizers.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

His voice, too, was of persuasive sweetness, with a clear and pleasing ring in it.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I also believe that however diversified the human family may be in regard to the circumstances in which they may be placed, all stand equally before their creator, as objects of His care and personal regard; in His great mercy He visits us with remorse and sadness, when we have wilfully done what we know to be wrong, and which, if persisted in, might lead us to destruction; and it is He who fills our hearts with peace and consolation when we do that which we believe to be right.
— from Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians by Elias Johnson

[99] Among the very best works of the later Robbian school may be cited the frieze upon the façade of the Ospedale del Ceppo at Pistoja, representing in varied colour, and with graceful vivacity, the Seven Acts of Mercy.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

The great charm of such an idea is the having, in Italy, a little cheap and private refuge independent of hotels etc., which every year grow more disagreeable and German and tiresome to face—not to say dearer too.
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James

This celebrated navigator discovered Barrow's Straits, Wellington Channel, and Prince Regent Inlet; Cornwallis, Sir Byam Martin, and Melville Islands, to which the name of Parry's Archipelago has been given.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

If they say "No," then they are asserting that to call a perception "real" is merely to say that it was perceived in the sense in which Sindbad did perceive a Roc: they are asserting that to call it "real" is not to say, in any sense, that it was really perceived: they are asserting that to call a perception "real" is to say that it was perceived, in some sense quite other than that in which we ordinarily use the word: for we certainly commonly mean, when we say "A was perceived," that a perception of A was "real": we should commonly say that Sindbad did not perceive a Roc—meaning that no such perception ever did exist.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

The disfranchised friends of Prelacy from Massachusetts and the Puritans from Virginia were welcomed to equal liberty of conscience and political rights in the Roman Catholic province of Maryland.”
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

And so they did; and they found the hedgehog very good, especially the baked one, which had been enclosed in a mould of clay and pushed right into the middle of the fire.
— from The Slowcoach by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Manna bowed in congratulation, and Pranken referred in a cheerful way to the contrast there would be between his summer life as a husbandman, and his winter as chamberlain.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach