An Effective Cut-Out Many roaster-packers supply grocers handling their coffee with dealer helps in the shape of weather-proof metal signs for outside display, display racks, store and window display signs, cut-outs, blotters, consumer booklets, newspaper electros, stereopticon slides, moving pictures, demonstrations, samples, etc.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, to come to some decision.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

There was not a soul in our Great Dvoryansky Street; everyone was asleep, and my footsteps rang out with a solitary, hollow sound.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

SYN: Plain, detailed, inobscure, declaratory, categorical, stated, distinctly stated, express, definite, determinate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

frail, fragile, shattery[obs3]; flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky; craichy[obs3]; drooping, tottering &c. v.. broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied &c. 158; decrepit. languid, poor, infirm; faint, faintish[obs3]; sickly &c. (disease) 655; dull, slack, evanid|, spent, short-winded, effete; weather-beaten; decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

On her deathbed she exclaimed in humble modesty, and with a bright smile on her face: 'Oh!
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

In the autumn weather when the air drank like wine, it seemed so indeed, even to Charley, who worked all day in his shop, his door wide open to the sunlight, and sat up half the night with Narcisse Dauphin, sometimes even taking a turn at the cradle of the twins, while madame sat beside her husband’s bed.
— from The Right of Way — Complete by Gilbert Parker

“Well, I’m sure it was, Dick,” said Eve; “only you would be so cross.”
— from The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn

Ah, my dear, Such eyes the widows in Corioli wear, [2848]
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

It forms the Red and Yellow Deal so extensively used for lumber in Europe.
— from Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

That hangs in my memory as the refrain of that council, "It can all be done so easily," but when they said it then, it came to my ears with a quality of enormous refreshment and power.
— from In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells