Even when we pat a dog kindly we do so partly because we want to see whether his skin is as smooth and fine as the eye sees it; moreover, we want to test the visual impression by that of touch.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

I quite agreed with him, but at the same time I told him the objection she had made and that it would probably be necessary to devise some plan by which at least the appearance of her not voluntarily complying with his desires might be kept up.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

The stand was decorated with yellow cloth; in its centre stood an enormous candle, while round it were gaily-decorated rice and toothsome delicacies specially prized by Jin .
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Why had Richard the Third such fearful dreams, saith Polydore, but for his frequent murders?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

SYN: Sad, heavy, afflictive, lamentable, deplorable, sorrowful, painful, burdensome, calamitous, baleful, hurtful, disastrous, unhappy.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Example Les dames sont parties bier.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

—Volviendo a las frutas de mesa, sabrás que el melocotón, que llaman comunmente durazno, se produce bien en el centro del Brasil, en el sur del Paraguay,
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"He's been to Mudport on business for several days," said Philip; "but he's come back now."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Dabudabúha (dabudabúhi) siyag pátid, Bombard him with kicks.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In a letter written to Thomas Law during the summer of 1814, Jefferson examined the different solutions proposed by theologians and philosophers and clearly indicated his preference.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

This population of sailors and dock-labourers is of a certain doubtful social probity, but all the same the spectacle is unique, and far more edifying to witness than a midnight ramble through San Francisco’s Chinatown, though perhaps more fraught with danger to one’s person.
— from Rambles on the Riviera by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

There are many lovelier places even in London than the leads of No. 12 Devon Street, Pimlico, but none more favourable to high and solitary thinking.
— from Audrey Craven by May Sinclair