betǣcan (w. d.) to make over, give up to, impart, deliver, entrust, commend to , Æ, Lk ; AO, CP: appoint ( for ), set apart as, dedicate : show, point out , Lk : give orders , RB 130 4 : pursue, hunt , WW 92 28 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

la del señor magistral—dijo la otra;—la del señor magistral que las dice en un suspiro, y creo que no me ha sido de provecho, porque estaba muy preocupada, sin poder apartar el entendimiento 20 de estas cosas terribles que nos pasan.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

A bridge across the Pasig, on the site of the present Puente de España, connected the two districts at a date later than Morga’s time.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

She walked with downcast eyes, close to the walls, and smiling with pleasure under her lowered black veil.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

CIUTTI: Esta es la llave This is the key de la puerta del jardín, to the gate in the garden wall, que habrá que escalar al fin, that you’d have had to climb, and it’s tall, pues, como usarced ya sabe, since, as you’re able to see, las tapias de ese convento the walls of that particular convent no tienen entrada alguna. have no other entrance at all.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

I generally had more satisfaction in going alone than with either of the young ladies; for they, chiefly owing to their defective education, comported themselves towards their inferiors in a manner that was highly disagreeable for me to witness.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

In those days mortgage to the Treasury was an innovation looked upon with reserve, and, as attorney in the matter, Chichikov had first of all to “entertain” every official concerned (we know that, unless that be previously done, unless a whole bottle of madeira first be emptied down each clerical throat, not the smallest legal affair can be carried through), and to explain, for the barring of future attachments, that half of the peasants were dead.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Every red Martian is taught during earliest childhood the principles of the manufacture of atmosphere, but only two at one time ever hold the secret of ingress to the great building, which, built as it is with walls a hundred and fifty feet thick, is absolutely unassailable, even the roof being guarded from assault by air craft by a glass covering five feet thick.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

One went from his house A to his church A, another from his house B to his church B, another from C to C, and so on, but it was afterwards found that no driver ever crossed the track of another car.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Since then, as vultures ravenous with greed, We oft have battled for an empty name, And sought by Dogma, Edict, Creed, To send each other to the flame.
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

For to the bishops and presbyters he was not ashamed to bow his head; and if a deacon ever came to him for the sake of profit, he discoursed with him on what was profitable, but in prayer he gave place to him, not being ashamed even himself to learn from him.
— from The Hermits by Charles Kingsley

Sometimes the strings are plucked ( pizzicato ), when the result is a short tone something like that of a banjo with the metallic clang omitted; very dainty effects can thus be produced, and though it always seems like a degradation of the instrument so pre-eminently suited to a broad singing style, no less significant a symphonist than Tschaikowsky has written a Scherzo in which the violins are played pizzicato throughout the movement.
— from How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art by Henry Edward Krehbiel

The hills are, however, admirably adapted for raising herds and flocks, and are at present the feeding-grounds of numerous deer, elk, &c., to which the short, sweet grass and wild oats that are spread over them afford a plentiful supply of food.
— from The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources by John Charles Frémont

That the divine essence could thus assume an individual form, was part of the doctrine which saw, in the manifold varieties of nature, the manifestations of a “single god.”
— from The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

The domestic economy continues to revolve around agriculture, which accounts for about 35% of GDP and employs about 55% of the work force, mainly small landholders.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Thus, either from the circumstances of his birth, or the natural melancholy of his disposition, Esmond came to live very much by himself during his stay at the University, having neither ambition enough to distinguish himself in the college career, nor caring to mingle with the mere pleasures and boyish frolics of the students, who were, for the most part, two or three years younger than he.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

In spite of the work they do some of these Baldwin men seem to be decent enough chaps to those who are not "undesirable," and they are, for the most part, intelligent.
— from The Survey, Volume XXX, Number 1, April 5, 1913 by Various

The Afghan noblemen maintain the strictest parda , or seclusion, of their women, who pass their days monotonously behind the curtains and lattices of their palace prison-houses, with little to do except criticize their clothes and jewels and retail slander; and Afghan boys of good family suffer much moral injury from being brought up in the effeminate and voluptuous surroundings of these zenanas.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell

Although the principle became and is [Pg 415] generally [686] recognised that political criminals shall not be extradited, serious difficulties exist concerning the conception of "political crime."
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim