The Commissary of Police darted a furious glance at him: "Lackey, take care!"
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

She had at last stepped outside the narrow circle of personal desire, and found all the world open to her.
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Thus, as in most cases of philological derivation, a fine dispute might be raised; it would be an interesting subject, and the author might be rewarded for his pains by the impressions of some dozen bludgeons on his back.
— from The Student-Life of Germany by William Howitt

The first-fruits of their orchards and gardens were also taumaha , or offered, with a portion of their live stock, which consisted of pigs, dogs, and fowls, as it was supposed death would be inflicted on the owner or the occupant of the land, from which the god should not receive such acknowledgment.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12) by James George Frazer

After all the pains he has taken to show us what the deficiency is which he is reporting here, and what the art and science which he is proposing, he can only put down a few paragraphs on the subject, casually, as it were, in passing.
— from The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Salter Bacon

The lining consists of plant down and finer strands of the same yellowish rootlets.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

“Pole Baker,” it began; “we, the Mountain-side White Cap Association, beg leave to inform you that we have sat in council at three separate meetings on your case of protracted drunkenness and family neglect.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Then, at other times, he must draw the plan of a cottage or church, or put down a few verses; and sometimes, when he heard the clock strike the hour that summoned him to his studies, he had some excessively interesting story to finish, or very much preferred some other occupation.
— from Louis' School Days: A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May

In the exhaustive justification with which Kassowitz follows up this definition in the fifteenth chapter of his General Biology , the natural causes of physiological death are fully described.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel