“He'll be for laying by business soon, I'll warrant, and be wanting you to take to it all and pay him so much by th' 'ear.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen[obs3], flamen[obs3]; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director. cenobite, conventual, abbot, prior, monk, friar, lay brother, beadsman[obs3], mendicant, pilgrim, palmer; canon regular, canon secular; Franciscan, Friars minor, Minorites; Observant, Capuchin, Dominican, Carmelite; Augustinian[obs3]; Gilbertine; Austin Friars[obs3], Black Friars, White Friars, Gray Friars, Crossed Friars, Crutched Friars; Bonhomme[Fr], Carthusian, Benedictine[obs3], Cistercian, Trappist, Cluniac, Premonstatensian, Maturine; Templar, Hospitaler; Bernardine[obs3], Lorettine, pillarist[obs3], stylite[obs3].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

mag-r-(→) n lawmaker, -un(→), balaurun, balaudnun n bill, future law. balaúngun = buluungun .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To be sure, immediately after their shots it did fall lifeless, but before that it had been carrying a dozen bullets in its belly.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

But at last the guns stopped, and among the men in the rifle pits rumors again flew, like birds, but they were now for the most part black creatures who flapped their wings drearily near to the ground and refused to rise on any wings of hope.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

Terrified to death, I struggled with such vehemence to disengage myself from him, that I succeeded, in spite of his efforts to detain me; and immediately, and with a swiftness which fear only could have given me, I flew rather than ran up the walk, hoping to secure my safety by returning to the lights and company we had so foolishly left: but before I could possibly accomplish my purpose, I was met by another party of men, one of whom placed himself so directly in my way, calling out, “Whither so fast, my love?"-that I could only have proceeded by running into his arms.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

lengu f. length , Bo, BH : height , Sol .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Modesty must be equally cultivated by both sexes, or it will ever remain a sickly hot-house plant, whilst the affectation of it, the fig leaf borrowed by wantonness, may give a zest to voluptuous enjoyments.)
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

His face was soft and slow and his manner at once cold and nervous, like fires long banked, but not out.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Plucking a pinch of the fleece, lo, "Birth" Brays from my bronze lip: life I kindle: Look, 't is a man!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Summon at once thy courage—rouse thy care; Stand firm, look back, be resolute, beware!
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

It is preferable to leave the sides for the present at right angles with the top surface, although they will not be kept so for long, but by thus working the measurements are facilitated.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick

They would not, however, stand close examination owing, again, to their fine lines, but being better sea boats than the "P's," by reason of their greater freeboard, the design was continued, and they met with considerable success against submarines (especially in the Irish Sea) by ramming and depth charge tactics, the submarines when submerged probably not realizing when observing the "P Q.'s" through a periscope the speed of which they were capable.
— from The Crisis of the Naval War by John Rushworth Jellicoe

One faction was of the opinion that the people of the United States were bound to aid the new sister not only by the sympathy of a common struggle for liberty, but by the still stronger bonds of gratitude for assistance in gaining their own freedom.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

—I set off at eleven o'clock, on Saturday morning, from London Bridge, by the 'Earl of Liverpool' steamer, which was loaded with passengers and machinery, and a slow bad boat, so that we were seventeen and a half hours crossing over.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

And then, after it is all over, to come out of the shadows of the parish church into the brilliant sunshine of the Place d'Armes, the place where they once executed murderers under the old French law by breaking their backs and then their lesser bones, and to hear Gros Bourdon sing his chant over the city from the belfry of Notre Dame—this is the old Montreal living in the heart of the new.
— from The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford

Poor innocent, ignorant, flattered Leila began blushingly to confide to this villain her true name, her occupation, and much concerning her home life.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts