On the other side of the glass door she could see two shadows.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other maxims of social duty seem clearly subordinate to those already discussed: as is illustrated by an examination of Liberality and other cognate notions.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

v [AB; a12] be, become strong, durable, sturdy; cause s.t. to become so.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For companions my two kingfishers sailing, winding, darting, dipping, sometimes capriciously separate, then flying together.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The lady, who was all afire with amorous longing, straightway threw herself into his arms and after she had strained him desirefully to her bosom and bussed him a thousand times and had of him been kissed as often, they went off to her chamber, and there without delay betaking themselves to bed, they fully and many a time, before the day should come, satisfied their desires one of the other.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

She could see now that the bridge was broken down; she could see the masts of a stranded vessel far out over the watery field.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In the darkness she could see the outlines of two carts, one with a barrel, the other, a lower one with sacks in it, and the figures of two men; one was leading a horse to put it into the shafts, the other was standing motionless by the fire with his hands behind his back.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"My friend Drowne;" said Copley, smiling to himself, but alluding to the mechanical and wooden cleverness that so invariably distinguished the images, "you are really a remarkable person!
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The subject having been thus fairly broached, George had pursued it, and one day somewhat casually stated that he had taken a room in Lewes and meant to sleep there every night for the term imposed by the law.
— from Hilda Lessways by Arnold Bennett

She had not reach'd her cottage door (She carried still the coat)
— from The Comic Almanack, Volume 2 (of 2) An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humerous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

From the doorstep she could see two figures, a man and a woman, lying back in garden chairs.
— from Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

Hush, that will do, that will do,” she continued, seeing that he was about to speak, “you have no heart, no soul, no delicacy.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

so like the sky; Arms shin'd so hot, and she such clouds made with the dust she cast, She thunder'd, feet of men and
— from The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek by Homer

"Haberdyne" (or dried salt cod) seems to have been a favorite and staple article of diet aboard ship.
— from The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Volume 5 by Azel Ames