[In the Amphletts: preparations to sail; collecting food; repairing canoes.] About 28th March
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"Too bad the breakfast is at old Catherine's," the bridegroom could fancy Reggie Chivers saying.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In fact, more than eighty-eight per cent of our Norwegian immigrants have come from rural communities.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

cui flāvam religās comam, simplex munditiīs?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

calinda , f. ( Sp. A. ), a kind of dance. calzada , f. , road, causeway, paved highway.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Even the name of the street has been changed, from rue Contrescarpe to the rue Mazet.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Behind them along the narrow, sodden, cutup forest road came hussars in threes and fours, and then Cossacks: some in felt cloaks, some in French greatcoats, and some with horsecloths over their heads.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

cámara, f. , room, chamber; ayuda de —— , valet.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

[146] reported water, caffein, caffeol, acetic acid, quinol, methylamin, acetone, fatty acids and pyrrol in the distillate coming from roasting coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Then put the whole in a li'l bottle, an' say Lard's Prayer awver it thrice; and, come fust ripe chance, give it to the man to drink mixed in tea or cider, but not beer nor other liquor."
— from Sons of the Morning by Eden Phillpotts

Without clocks the savage knows that the day is longer in the summer than in the winter; without scales he knows that stone is heavier than flesh: that is, he can foresee respecting certain results that their amounts will exceed these, and be less than those—he knows about what they will be.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer

“But what cause for revenge could you have had against him?” asked, his lordship.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

In a spacious arena constructed for races, cast thy eyes over the assemblage of noble coursers.
— from The Horses of the Sahara and the Manners of the Desert by E.‏ (Eugène) Daumas

In 1816 the principal wholesale firms doing business in Montreal were: McGillivray, Thain & Co., otherwise called the “Northwest Company;” Forsythe, Richardson & Co., who were agents of the East India Company; Maitlands, Garden & Auldjo; Gerrard, Gillespie, Moffatt & Co., then agents of the Phoenix Fire Insurance Company, of London; H. Gates & Co.; Allison, Turner & Co.; Desrivières, Blackwood & Co.; Blackwood, La Rogue & Co.; Robinson, Masson & Co.; Hector Russell & Co., also retailing fancy dress goods—the great retail dry goods house of that time; Miller, Parlane & Co., James Miller left the firm in 1819 and engaged exclusively in shipbuilding, and was one of the founders of the Allan line of steamships; James McDougall & Co., merchants and brokers; Hart, Logan & Co.; George Platt & Co., hardware; J. and J.M. Frothingham, hardware; J.T. Barrett, hardware; Jacob DeWitt, hardware; Lewis Lyman, druggist, founder of the house of Lyman’s Sons & Co.; Day, Gelston & Co., druggists, Mr. Day being the father of the late Judge Day; Wadsworth & Nichols, druggists; Thomas Torrance and John Torrance, both wholesale and retail grocers; Bowman & Smith, grocers; Zabdiel Thayer, crockery; Toussaint Peltier, grain merchant; Felix Souligny, do.;
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Some people passing stared to see them coming from Rosebush Cottage, and surmised Mr. Wyndham's mad mother must be worse than ever.
— from A Changed Heart: A Novel by May Agnes Fleming

Nevertheless, Michael J. Murphy smiled as he wrapped a wet towel round his throbbing head, for he had already decided upon his plan of campaign for regaining command of his ship, a coup for which he required no weapon more formidable than his native intelligence.
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Even if our household was of the most suitable description known to civilization for rearing children, I should not have hesitated a moment in imploring your influence for their admission into the Heraclean school.
— from The Manatitlans or, A record of recent scientific explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. by R. Elton Smile

Since Jackson's late reverse, more troops being needed, the militia had been ordered out, and the contingent from Rockbridge County was encamped a few miles in rear of us.
— from The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia by Edward Alexander Moore

These sureties were of course fifty Roman citizens.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust