découverte , f. , action de découvrir.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Great preparations there are to fortify Sheernesse and the yard at Portsmouth, and forces are drawing down to both those places, and elsewhere by the seaside; so that we have some fear of an invasion; and the Duke of York himself did declare his expectation of the enemy’s blocking us up here in the River, and therefore directed that we should send away all the ships that we have to fit out hence.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

2 [A13] look at s.t. from a distant, detached point of view.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If ugliness and unconventionality and eccentricity of face and deed do not hinder men from doing the world's work and reaping the world's reward, why should it hinder women?"
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

A hackney-coach was called, and the father and daughter departed in it.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Since, however, darwinism has once for all displaced design from the minds of the 'scientific,' theism has lost that foothold; and some kind of an immanent or pantheistic deity working IN things rather than above them is, if any, the kind recommended to our contemporary imagination.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

It brings her into conflict with that shapeless cataract of Comradeship, of chaotic feasting and deafening debate, which we noted in the last section.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But the good-natured self-forgetful cheeriness and common-sense of Priscilla would soon have dissipated the one suspicion; and the modest calm of Nancy's speech and manners told clearly of a mind free from all disavowed devices.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Instead of the old discoloured engravings of bishops with wonderful wigs, or gentlemen in broad-tailed coats, and flapped waistcoats, with their black frames, and dull, dusty glasses, which adorned the walls of their usual sitting-room at home, there hung here a few beautiful copies from the well-known and most admired works of the Italian masters, which Mr. Howard had brought as the fruits of his tour with Lord Osborne.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

If experience of a kindred nation in dealing with similar problems counts for anything, it is certainly wise for a distant dependency, always to be populated mainly, save in the great cities, by native races, and little likely ever to be quite able to stand alone, while, nevertheless, we wish to help it just as much as possible to that end.
— from Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses by Whitelaw Reid

He had sought it by more ambitious attempts, but even the laurels which the performance of a piece of his by boy-actors on a Speech-day might bring him had become desirable; and though he had written and submitted his work confidently and carelessly enough, he found himself not a little anxious and excited as the time for a decision drew near.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

My locks (the plenteous harvest of my head,) Hang o'er my manly face, and dangling down, As with a shady grove, my shoulders crown.
— from The Works of John Dryden, Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes; Vol. 12 (of 18) by John Dryden

In the Indies ordinarily three times a yeere bee wonderfull earthquakes, which put the people in great feare and danger: during the time of two yeeres that I was in Mexico, I 234.png 237 saw them sixe times; when they come they throw downe trees, houses, and Churches.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 14 America, Part III by Richard Hakluyt

" GERMAN DRIVE TO THE COAST Before the beginning of the spring campaign, it was realized by the Allies that the German general staff was preparing for a determined drive to the coast through the British and Belgian lines that protected the approach to Calais.
— from America's War for Humanity by Thomas Herbert Russell

Cascades, born somewhere in the dun firmament above, dropped down the mountain sides in ever-growing white threads.
— from Letters from America by Rupert Brooke

“Fifteenth,” answered Dick, doubtfully.
— from Captain Chub by Ralph Henry Barbour

You could carry chain when they had to run a line, and I guess you're smart enough to keep a fire going and help make camp, ain't you?" That had been a great month; full of discomfort and hardship and fatigue and deep, deep satisfaction.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Are turned to fools, and dull dogs learn to jest; Soldiers, for him, good "trembling cowards" make, And beaus, turned clowns, look ugly for his sake; For him even lawyers talk without a fee, For him (oh friendship)
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore