plangka n service switch, the switch on a service box used to connect or disconnect electricity to a house.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

—You see, they are the highest and most ornamental parts of its frame —as wit and judgment are of ours —and like them too, indubitably both made and fitted to go together, in order, as we say in all such cases of duplicated embellishments—— to answer one another.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Alexandrians seem to have aimed rather at a combination of diverse effects than at a composition 'simplex et unum.'
— from The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition by W. Y. (William Young) Sellar

—"Messrs. Wheeler and Broadley have succeeded in producing a work on the threatened invasion of England by Napoleon, which treats of the subject with a fulness of detail and a completeness of documentary evidence that are unexampled."
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

In all the States of this country any one is entitled to such a trial, and he is also, in case of defeat, entitled to appeal and present his case to a different and a higher court.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

One of the bouquets bore the card of Dr. Evans, the American dentist.
— from In the Courts of Memory, 1858-1875; from Contemporary Letters by L. de (Lillie de) Hegermann-Lindencrone

The Countess of Derby entered the apartment accordingly, holding in her hand a number of papers.
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

“Indeed, it was the belief of the town that old Geibel could make a man capable of doing everything that a respectable man need want to do.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

They are miserably deceived who think that it does, and will find it out to their cost one day, except they awake.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

Until that date the attempt had been made to work on what are sometimes called ‘un-denominational lines,’—which meant that the Missionaries might be either Churchwomen or Dissenters, each teaching according to her own convictions.
— from A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker by Agnes Giberne

He had lines and furrows in his face, but they did not bring a careworn or despondent expression there, as is generally the case.
— from At the Sign of the Silver Flagon by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon