the fair lady put in.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

La Malibran fut la première ---- de son temps.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

The girl’s Tandān shares a bundle of betel leaves with the boy’s Tandān, who, taking therefrom four leaves, places two rupees on them, and gives them to the girl’s Tandān.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

“And you, princess,” he went on, addressing Princess Bielokonski, “was it not you who received me in Moscow, six months since, as kindly as though I had been your own son, in response to a letter from Lizabetha Prokofievna; and gave me one piece of advice, again as to your own son, which I shall never forget?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With the opportunities which I enjoyed, it would have been disgraceful not to have been familiar with their writings; and I have already said as much as the present biographical sketch requires concerning the German philosophers, whose works, for the greater part, I became acquainted with at a far later period.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A Fat Lady, perhaps in part sustained upon postponed pork, her professional associate being a Learned Pig, displayed her life-size picture in a low dress as she appeared when presented at Court, several yards round.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“These Immortals,” they said, “dare to hold captive your Majesty’s son merely on account of a few lost presents and a shipwrecked servant.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The body is mainly occupied with a full length portrait of the great king.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

A daily chat with my sister who lives in Sri Lanka and the friends I have in Mexico, the USA, the UK, South Africa etc., because I've travelled a lot, for long periods all over the world.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

We need potatoes for late planting and have found a good lot which is being held in cold storage at temperatures from 34 to 36 degrees F. They have not been there long, however.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

This has hitherto been difficult, owing to the want of railways, for Santa Cruz, Cochabamba, and Sucre (Chuquisaca) have all been a many days' journey from one another and 194 from La Paz.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

And indeed many a king of Persia has had a mother of far lower parentage than my Sappho.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Complete by Georg Ebers

"Years, at the rate it goes on now; for it is not always burning actively; sometimes for long periods it only smoulders.
— from For Love of a Bedouin Maid by Voleur

The fierce little Palmetto state has always been a [Pg 326] free lance among her southern sisters; for instance, though usually ultra-democratic, she was hostile to the two great democratic chiefs, Jefferson and Jackson, though both were from the south.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

Synonyms: armament, forces, military, soldiers, array, host, multitude, soldiery, force, legions, phalanx, troops.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald