Mulugmak (malugmak) nang salúga kun tungtúngan ug daghan, That floor will collapse if lots of people stand on it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

An elderly female, no more young, left the building of the courts of chancery, king’s bench, exchequer and common pleas, having heard in the lord chancellor’s court the case in lunacy of Potterton, in the admiralty division the summons, exparte motion, of the owners of the Lady Cairns versus the owners of the barque Mona, in the court of appeal reservation of judgment in the case of Harvey versus the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

O Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy curse Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

= hnescian hnifol m. brow, forehead . hnifol-crumb , -crump inclined, leaning over, prone , WW.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

‘For this reason also,’ he adds, ‘a synod convened in Laodicea of Phrygia forbad by a decree the offering prayer to angels; and even to the present time oratories of the holy Michael may be seen among them and their neighbours.’
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Figs. 24 and 25. --Varlet or Squire carrying a Halberd with a thick Blade; and Archer, in Fighting Dress, drawing the String of his Crossbow with a double-handled Winch.--From the Miniatures of the "Jouvencel," and the "Chroniques" of Froissart, Manuscripts of the Fifteenth Century (Imperial Library of Paris).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

386. --Coronation of Charlemagne.--Fac-simile of a Miniature in the "Chroniques de Saint-Denis," Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Imperial Library of Paris).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

--Costumes of the Thirteenth Century: Tristan and the beautiful Yseult.--From a Miniature in the Romance of "Tristan," Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (Imperial Library of Paris).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

a Miniature in "Tournois du Roi René," Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (Imperial Library of Paris).
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

And so the Word had breath, and wrought With human hands the creed of creeds In loveliness of perfect deeds, More strong than all poetic thought; Which he may read that binds the sheaf, Or builds the house, or digs the grave, And those wild eyes that watch the wave In roarings round the coral reef.
— from Faces in the Fire, and Other Fancies by Frank Boreham

No confectionary in London or Paris can be compared with them.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

All the public gardens of China present almost the identical features of the one we visited; a park without artificial islands and wooden bridges, without canals (in lieu of paths), without pools of stagnant water thickly covered with the broad leaves of the Nelumbium , would, in the eyes of a Chinese, be deprived of its chief pleasure and its greatest attraction.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

There is a regular tariff for chairs, just as there is for cabs in London or Paris.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

Theft, says the accuser, to thy charge I lay, O Pedius.
— from A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, or the Causes of Corrupt Eloquence The Works of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Notes, Supplements by Cornelius Tacitus

As he forces his way through the narrow passage he comes in contact with a sticky stigma, armed with incurving hairs which remove any pollen he may have on his back; as he continues his struggle out he reaches an anther blocking the passage and waiting to clap its load of pollen on his back.
— from Flower Guide: Wild Flowers East of the Rockies (Revised and with New Illustrations) by Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed

By a simple majority vote in the lower chamber a minister may be impeached for bribery, negligence, or any act detrimental to the independence of the country, the constitution, individual liberty, or property rights.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg