Certainly with hideous iteration the bitten lips of Dorian Gray shaped and reshaped those subtle words that dealt with soul and sense, till he had found in them the full expression, as it were, of his mood, and justified, by intellectual approval, passions that without such justification would still have dominated his temper.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Miampù ang púga dihang gikurnir siya, The escapee surrendered when he was cornered.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
Zuweisungszettel allotment note Zuwendung für Lebensunterhalt subsistence money Zuwiderhandlung noncompliance zuzahlen pay extra zuzüglich 10 Prozent plus ten per cent zuzüglich Versicherung gegen Kriegsgefahr plus war risk insurance zuzüglich zu allen Kosten in addition to any expenses Zwang zur Abnahme des ganzen Sortiments full-line forcing Zwang zur Entscheidung pressure to take a decision Zwangsanleihe forced loan Zwangsauflösung compulsory liquidation Zwangskurs forced exchange Zwangsliquidation compulsory liquidation Zwangsmaßnahme arbitrary measure Zwangsmitgliedschaft compulsory membership Zwangsparen forced saving Zwangsregulierung forced execution
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig
(Dr Ginsburg.) Scripture parallel .
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
we saw many deer, Antelopes ducks, gees, some beaver and great appearance of their work.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark
[13] cría del ganado , stock breeding .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
His dear godpapa Sedley was more than once mentioned in them.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
"Alas! for you, my dear girl," she said; "did you possess the hope of a glorious future, you would not dread that which must, sooner or later, come to all.—But
— from The Arab's Pledge: A Tale of Marocco in 1830 by Edward Ledwich Mitford
She had a pug dog, and I petted the dog, and called it to me, and, do you know, that dog got so he would follow me, and set on my lap, and come to my room, and whine, until I got scared.
— from Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
'My dear Gerard,' said the amazed Mellish.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The "gloria" encompassing the vision is clearly defined, giving so strong an effect of the supernatural that we cease to judge the composition by ordinary standards of natural law.
— from The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
We did not put on dinner-dresses as Mr. De Gex said he intended to take us to a show at Olympia afterwards.
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux
I remember one dear, good soul who was so positive she was to have a boy that she had all the linen marked with the name she had chosen for him.
— from The Pace That Kills: A Chronicle by Edgar Saltus
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