Ὀχετός, οῦ, ὁ, (ὀχέω, to uphold, carry) a watering-pipe, duct; the intestinal canal, Mar. 7.19. Π, π, Πῖ Παλινγεννεσία, see παλιγγενεσία .
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

He was the fellow, if you remember, who, callously ignoring the fact that we had been friends since boyhood, betted me one night at the Drones that I could swing myself across the swimming bath by the rings—a childish feat for one of my lissomeness—and then, having seen me well on the way, looped back the last ring, thus rendering it necessary for me to drop into the deep end in formal evening costume.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

O most small fault, How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show!
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

Psychologically an intervening noun is indicated: I met with (the discovery) that I could not , etc. 25-5: haga són : (make sound) play .
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Entirely different are his Drapier's Letters , a model of political harangue and of popular argument, which roused an unthinking English public and did much benefit to Ireland by preventing the politicians' plan of debasing the Irish coinage.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

At last, on February 3, he drove, after a fashion, down the Irish Channel, on board the Teutonic.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

I wish that somewhere in the ruin'd folds, Among the fragments tumbled from the glens, Or the dry thickets, I could meet with her, The Abominable, 18 that uninvited came Into the fair Peleïan banquet-hall, And cast the golden fruit upon the board, And bred this change; that I might speak my mind, And tell her to her face how much I hate Her presence, hated both of Gods and men.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

[ In bold defiance, or rather in gross ignorance, of language and geography, the president Cousin detains them in Chios with a south, and wafts them to Constantinople with a north, wind.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Perception, I believe, is, in some degree, in all sorts of animals; though in some possibly the avenues provided by nature for the reception of sensations are so few, and the perception they are received with so obscure and dull, that it comes extremely short of the quickness and variety of sensation which is in other animals; but yet it is sufficient for, and wisely adapted to, the state and condition of that sort of animals who are thus made.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

I was shaking all over with a delight that I could hardly control.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

I've just hugged the little iron box sometimes, when I thought of what that money would do for Fee; and for a [279] few minutes after I heard Nora's story I was so disappointed that I couldn't congratulate him.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

"I think she is a large schooner; but it is so thick and dark, that I cannot be certain.
— from The Cruise of the Midge (Vol. 2 of 2) by Michael Scott

The houses of the inhabitants were mere hovels, and even the palace of the king, and all the other public buildings, were of very frail construction; for all the architecture of the Monguls in those days took its character from the tent, which was the type and model, so to speak, of all other buildings.
— from Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

A winter pass'd since Peter saw the town, And summer-lodgers were again come down; These, idly curious, with their glasses spied The ships in bay as anchored for the tide— The river's craft—the bustle of the quay— And sea-port views, which landmen love to see.
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

Amongst these was an old friend and brother subaltern of mine, Augustus Otway Mayne, whom, greatly to my satisfaction, Hope Grant appointed D.A.Q.M.G. to help me, for there was now more work to be done than I could well get through.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

It is not, Sir, believe me, out of Disrespect, that I call you plain Dion ; but because I would treat you with the utmost Civility: It is the Name under which, I find, you are pleas'd to disguise your self; and offering to guess at an Author, when he chuses to be conceal'd, is, I think a Rudeness almost equal to that of pulling off a Woman's Mask against her Will.
— from A Letter to Dion by Bernard Mandeville