= ínum /ʔī́num/ ‘ drink heavily ’ búnal /búnal/ ‘ beat ’ + (→) = bunal /bunál/ ‘ club ’ 5.12 Dropping of vowels When a suffix is added to a root with a stressed final syllable, the tendency is to drop the vowel of the final syllable of the root: dakup /dakúp/ arrest + -an = dakpan /dákpan/ be arrested pisik /pisík/ splash + -an = piskan /pískan/ be splashed lakat /lakát/
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But it was in the last named that he took most delight, because at Perranzabuloe (Perochia Sti.
— from The Delectable Duchy by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Diagram Showing Widths of Base of Retaining Wall Required for Different Batters and Pressures, Pennsylvania Station 1157 349 LV.a Fig.
— from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910, Start/End Papers The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad by Various

A correspondent reminds Mr. Punch that four years ago he wrote as follows: "Lord Haldane, in defending the Territorials, declared that he expects to be dead before any political party seriously suggests compulsory military service.
— from Mr. Punch's History of the Great War by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

[9] On the 16th September 1662, the Privy Council of Scotland commissioned Robert Mein, merchant, [10] and Keeper of the Letter Office, Edinburgh, to establish posts between Scotland and Ireland, and ordained that Linlithgow, Kilsyth, Glasgow, Kilmarnock, Dumboag, Ballintrae, and Port Patrick, should be stages on the route, and granted him the sum of £200 sterling, to build a packet boat to carry the Mail from Port Patrick to Donaghadee, and further gave him the sole privilege of carrying letters on this line of road, for which he was allowed to charge for each letter to Glasgow, 2s.
— from An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland by T. B. (Thomas Bamford) Lang

To please the girls she had allowed her curls to hang, decorated by a pale pink satin topknot bow, which matched her pale pink negligee.
— from Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms by Josephine Chase

114 - 117 ), shell spherical or polyhedral, with panelled or dimpled surface, distinguished by a peculiar porcellanous structure (numerous thin needles being {1539} embedded in a punctulate cement-substance), with hollow radial spines and with a corona of simple solid teeth around the mouth; (5) Tuscarorida (Pl. 100 ), shell ovate or subspherical, with smooth surface, of the same peculiar porcellanous structure as the Circoporida, but with hollow, very long tubular teeth around the mouth.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel