abíyu n food, provisions, money, supplies for daily consumption.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

et j'ai même déjà fort à faire pour me sortir de ce que l'on nomme un revers de fortune.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude, and the whole train of monkish virtues; for what reason are they everywhere rejected by men of sense, but because they serve to no manner of purpose; neither advance a man's fortune in the world, nor render him a more valuable member of society; neither qualify him for the entertainment of company, nor increase his power of self-enjoyment?
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

This was rather too much for poor Mary; sometimes it made her bilious, sometimes it upset her gravity.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But when, instead of such a fallacious philosophy, men shall receive the doctrine, based not upon human experience, but upon God's inborn ideas that phenomena are limited and God is omnipresent, and that upon these facts experience can afford no decision, we shall begin to eliminate the real difficulties of philosophy, and to approach the attainment of the unison between human philosophy and the Divine Philosophy.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

pujanza , f. , power, might, strength, push.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

When she was alone, her thoughts recurred to the strange history of Signora Laurentini and then to her own strange situation, in the wild and solitary mountains of a foreign country, in the castle, and the power of a man, to whom, only a few preceding months, she was an entire stranger; who had already exercised an usurped authority over her, and whose character she now regarded, with a degree of terror, apparently justified by the fears of others.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In all other cases the sacredness of the person exempts him from all inconveniencies, whereby he is secure, whilst the government stands, from all violence and harm whatsoever; than which there cannot be a wiser constitution: for the harm he can do in his own person not being likely to happen often, nor to extend itself far; nor being able by his single strength to subvert the laws, nor oppress the body of the people, should any prince have so much weakness, and ill nature as to be willing to do it, the inconveniency of some particular mischiefs, that may happen sometimes, when a heady prince comes to the throne, are well recompensed by the peace of the public, and security of the government, in the person of the chief magistrate, thus set out of the reach of danger: it being safer for the body, that some few private men should be sometimes in danger to suffer, than that the head of the republic should be easily, and upon slight occasions, exposed.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

I have been sure that you would fall into trouble, Gracie, for I knew that such foolish pride must sooner or later have a fall, but I could not have believed that you would be guilty of this.
— from Jessie's Parrot by Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) Mathews

A future producer might some day prove valuable.
— from You're on the Air by William Heyliger

The Female Turkey, which is considerably inferior in size to the 34 male, differs further from him in wanting the spurs and pendulous wattles, in having the frontal papilla much smaller, the naked space of the neck less, and the colours much duller, although similar in distribution.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon

It would seem that two thousand seven hundred Athenian citizens, with their families must have gone to reside, for the time at least, in Lesbos, as kleruchs; that is, without abnegating their rights as Athenian citizens, and without being exonerated either from Athenian taxation, or from personal military service.
— from History of Greece, Volume 06 (of 12) by George Grote

"Her face pleaseth me," said Samson, who, although he could conquer lions, was like putty in the hands of women.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

F. Prinzing Medizinische Statistik , Verlag von Gustav Fischer in Jena, 1906.
— from How to Live: Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Irving Fisher

Within six minutes Martin flew past Mrs. Summersgill’s moor-edge farm.
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

His conspicuous severance of political from personal morality shook the faith of the world, and in the corrupt generation which followed Louis XIV. and nurtured Frederick even the standard of personal morality sank low.
— from Frederick the Great and the Rise of Prussia by William Fiddian Reddaway

Pure air is as necessary to existence as good and wholesome food; perhaps more so; for our food has to undergo a very elaborate change before it is introduced into the mass of circulating blood, while the air is received at once into the lungs, and comes into immediate contact with the blood in that important organ.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829 by Various