Coin, Cartama, Ronda, followed in the next year, not without some vigorous reprisals on the part of Ez-Zaghal, who caught the knights of Calatrava in an ambush, and effected a terrible slaughter.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

A crude, cold rain fell heavily; the spring-time was indeed an appeal—and it seemed a cynical, insincere appeal—to patience.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Whole books full of notes, carefully copied records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures—that’s the worst loss.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When the animals above saw this, they were afraid that the whole world would be mountains, so they called him back, but the Cherokee country remains full of mountains to this day.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Last of all, he strains off the liquor through some fibres of the inner palm-bark placed for that purpose in the jug-spout, and gets ready the tray of delicate parti-coloured grass, and the small coffee cups ready for pouring out.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

ceremony, ceremonial; ritual; form, formality; etiquette; puncto[Lat], punctilio, punctiliousness; starched stateliness, stateliness.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Smaller amphoræ, with various vintages readily mixed, were kept cool in “bars” very similar to our present ice cream cabinets, ready for service for the guests in tavern rooms.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

The necessity of a concurrent jurisdiction in certain cases results from the division of the sovereign power; and the rule that all authorities, of which the States are not explicitly divested in favor of the Union, remain with them in full vigor, is not a theoretical consequence of that division, but is clearly admitted by the whole tenor of the instrument which contains the articles of the proposed Constitution.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

2 pieces of cloth cut ready for sewing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Series C: correspondence received from the colonies, which is subdivided geographically.
— from The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir

Deafened by the reports of the field-artillery and the incessant tat, tat of the rifles, they stood shoulder to shoulder in the trench, and when their comrades charged, rushed forward with them and helped to hurl back the Boers.
— from With Rifle and Bayonet: A Story of the Boer War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

It is rich, double-thick cream cheese, ranging from a pale to a dark yellow, although when uncolored it may be white.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences

The weakest count charges Robert Floyd with arson and murder in the second degree.
— from The Incendiary: A Story of Mystery by William Augustine Leahy

Moses' Sledgate is a curious track, which has evidently been engineered with considerable care, running from near Seatoller in Borrowdale at the back of Brandreth , round the head of Ennerdale below Green and Great Gable , and [86] then over Beck Head and down Gavel Neese into Wastdale.
— from Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. (Walter Parry) Haskett Smith

[113] The Commission chiefly responsible for these official Belgian reports was composed of M. Cooreman, Minister of State (President); Count Goblet d'Alviella, Minister of State and Vice-President of the Senate; M. Ryckmans, Senator; M. Strauss, Alderman of the City of Antwerp; M. Van Cutsem, Hon.
— from The Great War and How It Arose by Anonymous

He shows his lodges in a , where he resided many years ago; b is a lake; c , c , c , c represent four deer, one of which is shown only by the horns protruding above a clump of brush near the lake; e represents Ojibwa in his canoe, d , floating on the river, h , h ; g is a pine torch, giving light and smoke, erected on the bow of the canoe, the light being thrown forward from a curve slice of birch bark at f , its bright inner surface acting as a reflector.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

Either men refused to accept the office, which hence tended to fall into abeyance; or accepting it, they sank under its weight into spiritless creatures, cloistered recluses, from whose nerveless fingers the reins of government slipped into the firmer grasp of men who were often content to wield the reality of sovereignty without its name.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Most of them have the old close-shaven, clear-cut Roman features, contrasting strongly with the weaker, bearded types we shall see later.
— from Paris Grant Allen's Historical Guides by Grant Allen