No form of friendship under the sun had a right to exact such a concession.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

baratíha n piece of wood about 1″ thick, 2″ [ 114 ] wide and anywhere from one foot up in length, usually used for flooring.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'Fringe' of object, I. 258 , 281-2 , 471-2 , 478 Frog's nerve-centres, I. 14 Fusion of feelings unintelligible, I. 157-62 ; II. 2.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

We mean to bestow our confidence where we like, and to find out our own friends, instead of having them found out for us—don’t we, Jip?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

42° 1' 3" 8/10 N. also the Moons Distanc from the Sun I have observed a number of places where the River has onced run and now filled or filling up & growing with willows & cottonwood H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Having somewhat rested from our fatigue under the trees which stood on the field of battle, we praised God and the holy Virgin, and thanked them with uplifted hands for the complete victory they had granted us: and, as it was the feast of the annunciation to the holy Virgin, the town which was subsequently built here in memory of this great victory, was named Santa Maria de la Vitoria.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Many consonant stems have a double form: one form used in the nominative singular (neuters have this form in the accusative also), another form in the other cases: as, 69 iūdex , juror , stem of nominative iūdec- ( 136, 2 ), of other cases iūdic- ; flāmen ( 103, a ), special priest , flāmin- ( 103, a ); virgō , maid , virgin- ( 105, g ); auceps ( 107, d ), fowler , aucup- ( 104, c ); ebur ( 107, c ), ivory , ebor- ; genus , race , gener- ( 145 ; 107, c ); trīstius ( 346 ), sadder , trīstiōr- ( 346 ); corpus ( 107, c ), body , corpor- ( 105, i ); pater ( 135, 2 ), father , patr- .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

And so in that early experience of Julian's when in her love, abandoned to pity and worship, she would not look up to Heaven from the Cross, it was also the inward sight by the higher part of her soul of the higher part of Christ's life, that Heavenly Love that could only rejoice, that overcame her frailty of flesh unwilling to suffer, and made her choose "only Jesus in weal and in woe.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

All this of the old Norse Belief which is flung out for us, in one level of distance in the Edda, like a picture painted on the same canvas, does not at all stand so in the reality.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

On one of these afternoons four or five unmilked cows chanced to stand apart from the general herd, behind the corner of a hedge, among them being Dumpling and Old Pretty, who loved Tess's hands above those of any other maid.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

You see me void of affection and religion, unattached by friend or family, unpiloted by principle or faith.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

As soon as Amandine can find out for us whether he has any servants or not—" A loud barking of dogs here interrupted Calabash.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

This book is full of fellowship untroubled like theirs, and made noble by a courtesy that has gone perhaps out of the world.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 8 (of 8) Discoveries. Edmund Spenser. Poetry and Tradition; and Other Essays. Bibliography by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

To prevent this an arrangement was devised by which the lens and the covered fluid under examination were used in an air-tight chamber, the air of which was kept in a saturated condition; so that being, like a saturated sponge, unable to take in any more, it left the film of fluid unaffected.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

The French officers fitted up a pretty little cabin for her accommodation, and without more ado she took up her quarters on board the Seignelay , with no other escort or chaperonage than that of the good bishop.
— from Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Alex was off the deck almost as soon as the dog, and the two engaged in a wrestling match on the grass, a contest in which the boy came off an easy victor on account of the dog not being posted on tricks of knocking an opponent’s feet out from under him.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

Three minutes after the collision, brawny soldiers were bending over the stretched-out figures of five unconscious men.
— from Anderson Crow, Detective by George Barr McCutcheon

Why, then, we ask, with such authorities and precedents before them, do the slaveholders in Congress, regardless of their oaths, strive to gag the friends of freedom, under pretence of allaying agitation?
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favorites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendor, whatever could soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Edward Gibbon