to hunger after, desire earnestly, long for, Mat. 5.6.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Now, however preposterous it may at first seem to talk of any creature’s skin as being of that sort of consistence and thickness, yet in point of fact these are no arguments against such a presumption; because you cannot raise any other dense enveloping layer from the whale’s body but that same blubber; and the outermost enveloping layer of any animal, if reasonably dense, what can that be but the skin?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Fixings , arrangements, dress, embellishments, luggage, furniture, garnishings of any kind.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

At the Battle of Naseby Dr. Edward Lake fought bravely for the King, and in the service of his Majesty received no less than sixteen wounds.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

dicere, et Laudare fortunas meas, Qui Gnatum haberem tali ingenio prœditum.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Ce mode "tourner la page", ressemble à une fonction hypertexte déguisée en "la" fonction "livre" la plus classique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

d'ELLIT (Eléments de littérature), base de données en littérature française; b) de comprendre le monde dans lequel nous vivons en en connaissant les tenants et les aboutissants, d'où RELINTER (Relations internationales).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

lau 3. v. tr., to wrest, abduct; lau doola , extortion; lau fafi , to deliver.
— from Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens

I know for a fact, that in the neighbourhood of London-wall, where recently great improvements have taken place in the sewerage and ventilation, disease has greatly diminished, especially low fever .
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

I could see it plainly as I drove up, its arrow due east, looking for trouble as usual.
— from At Close Range by Francis Hopkinson Smith

In spite of this, the enormous income he received from his patents more than kept pace with his expenses, and when he died, early last February, he was one of the richest men in the United Kingdom.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

La femme, c’est peu galant de le dire, est la femelle de l’homme.
— from The Tunnel: Pilgrimage, Volume 4 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

deçian las guias que se juntaba este rio con el de tiguex mas de ueinte jornadas de alli y que boluian sus corrientes a el oriente creese que ban a el poderoso rio del espiritu santo que los de don hernando de soto descubrieron en la florida en esta jornada a la yda se
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

And to see that girl, with all the care Of the household on her—I de-clare It was OUDACIOUS, the work she'd do, And the thousand plans that she'd putt through; And sing like a medder-lark all day long, And drowned her cares in the joys o' song; And LAUGH sometimes tel the farmer's "hand," Away fur off in the fields, would stand A-listenin', with the plow half drawn, Tel the coaxin' echoes called him on; And the furries seemed, in his dreamy eyes, Like foot-paths a-leadin' to Paradise, As off through the hazy atmosphere
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by James Whitcomb Riley

At dinner the Russian baron, who examined every particle of food he ate with great care and discrimination, evidently looking for poison, embarrassed me in the usual fashion by asking how I write my books, where I get my plots, and all the rest of the questions that have become so hatefully unanswerable, ending up by blandly enquiring what I had written.
— from A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon

She bent forward and dug eager little fingers into his shoulder.
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup