Vulg. (of both).— Kalig̃ag , Makalig̃ag , Tag., Vis.; Kandaroma , Iloc; Cassia Lignea or Cassia , Eng. Uses.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

Meanwhile, to return to myself—from which dear little person, I very seldom, even in imagination, digress—I found Lord Vincent at Galignani’s, carefully looking over “Choice Extracts from the best English Authors.”
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The wretched inhabitants, driven from their homes, called loudly on Count Egmont, their governor, to protect them.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

The effect of this development upon England, the classic land of capital export, is portrayed in an acute study by Dr. Schulze-Gaevernitz.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

[Pg 55] for although they were usually turned up at the outside corners, like other Chinese eyes, sometimes I would catch him with one of them turned down at the corner, and then he seemed to be looking at me with one eye, and looking out of the window with the other.
— from John Whopper The Newsboy by Thomas M. (Thomas March) Clark

Citizens' Library On Charitable Effort How to Help By MARY CONYNGTON, of the Department of Commerce and Labor, Washington Not only is the professional charity worker often in need of advice as to the best methods of investigation, administration, etc., but the non-professional worker, with his zeal unrestrained by special training, is even more emphatically in need of such guidance as this sound and competent book gives.
— from Child Labor in City Streets by Edward Nicholas Clopper

The man in it could locate our camp easily by the glow of the fires through the mist and vapors.
— from The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

But the determination to fight to the uttermost against the converging lines of Christian evidence has now driven such critics into a corner.
— from The Books of the New Testament by Leighton Pullan

Here are contradictions that might be thought sufficient to give us pause; yet not contradictions large or conclusive enough to rob Davy Crockett of aught of the fame that has been accorded him by the American people.
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough

The Complete Letters of Cowper , edited by Thomas Wright, have been published by Hodder & Stoughton in four volumes.
— from Immortal Memories by Clement King Shorter

“Here I come: look out!” cried Esau; and the next moment he too sprang in, sending the water up sparkling in the morning sunshine.
— from To The West by George Manville Fenn