" We drove to Kurilovka together, and there the carpenters asked us for a drink.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In what does our security consist against usurpation from that quarter?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Who now will give me prudent counsel, reprove me with affection, give me strength for good deeds without arrogance and conceit, and use frankness after extracting the bitterness from the words, like those who from medicines extract what is nauseating but leave in what is really beneficial?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

At last, an empty cab turned up (it is a street where, as a rule, and when they are not wanted, empty cabs pass at the rate of three a minute, and hang about, and get in your way), and packing ourselves and our belongings into it, and shooting out a couple of Montmorency’s friends, who had evidently sworn never to forsake him, we drove away amidst the cheers of the crowd, Biggs’s boy shying a carrot after us for luck.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

kang-an(←) n place where crows abound.† uwandis (from ulandis )
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A bottle of wine is not an uncommon means of introducing a mutual feeling of fellowship; and even tea and coffee are used for a like end.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

And Hermippus tells us that he was a man who lent money at daily interest, and that he was called a usurer; for he used to lend on nautical usury, and take security, so that he amassed a very great amount of riches.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

of a reflexive eager , âcer, âcris, âcre; alacer, alacris, alacre eager (be) , studeô, 2 eagerness , studium, studî, n. eagle , aquila, -ae, f. easily , facile easy , facilis, -e either ... or , aut ... aut empire , imperium, impe´rî, n. employ , negôtium dô encourage , hortor, 1 enemy , hostis, -is, m. and f. ; inimîcus, -î, m. enough , satis entire , tôtus, -a, -um ( § 108 ) expectation , opîniô, -ônis, f. eye , oculus, -î, m. F faithless , perfidus, -a, -um famous , clârus, -a, -um far , longê farmer , agricola, -ae, m. farther , ulterior, -ius father , pater, patris, m. fatherland , patria, -ae, f. favor , faveô, 2 favorable , idôneus, -a,-um; secundus, -a, -um fear , metus, -ûs, m. ; timor, -ôris, m. fear, be afraid , timeô, 2 few , paucî, -ae, -a field , ager, agrî, m. fifteen , quîndecim fight , contendô, 3; pugnô, 1 find , reperiô, 4 finish , cônficiô, 3 fire , ignis, -is, m. ( § 243.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The many sorts of apples differing so much in flavour and keeping powers, enable this fruit to be employed for a variety of purposes, such as — Culinary Apples , used for tarts, puddings, &c., &c.; Dessert Apples , usually of a sweet sub-acid flavour and crisp texture, eaten raw; Cider Apples , the expressed juice of which forms English Cider ( Cidre , French).
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

The spirit of the Beautiful was given him at his birth, to be his constant companion and unfailing friend.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 3, September 1849 by Various

Instead, it attacks the symptom itself, contenting itself with teaching the patient that his trouble is psychic in origin; that it is based on exaggerated suggestibility and uncontrolled emotionalism; that it is made out of false ideas about the body, illogical conclusions, and unhealthy feeling-tones; and that it may be cured by a kind of moral hygiene, which breaks up these old habits and replaces them with new and better ones.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

By virtue of its moral and religious conduct the soul can increase or diminish the flow of grace from the Deity, through the channel of the intermediary beings, its good actions causing an uninterrupted flow, and its evil conduct occasioning its discontinuance.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 3 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

And this has perhaps given to the eighteenth century an urbaneness from which its predecessor was largely free.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

I hope they will be all henceforth cruel and unjust, for there is not one of his subjects but has forgotten Ulysses, who ruled them as though he were their father.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

In the same year the King offered an excellent example of obedience to the laws by sending his son, Prince Edward, to prison for riotously breaking into the park of Walter Langton, Bishop of Chester, and at the same time banished from the realm the Prince’s companion and unworthy friend, Piers Gaveston.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges no indigenous inhabitants note: public entry is by special-use permit from US Fish and Wildlife Service only and generally restricted to scientists and educators; visited annually by US Fish and Wildlife Service Johnston Atoll: in previous years, an average of 1,100 US military and civilian contractor personnel were present; as of May 2005 all US government personnel had left the island Midway Islands: approximately 40 people make up the staff of US Fish and Wildlife Service and their services contractor living at the atoll Palmyra Atoll: four to 20 Nature Conservancy and US Fish and Wildlife staff Uruguay 3,431,932 (July 2006 est.)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

But Florence kept Pisa in check, and Ugo found only an inglorious refuge where he had hoped to acquire active allies.
— from Tales and Stories Now First Collected by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley