The most glaring instances of failure on the part of England to do this were when De Grasse was permitted to get out unopposed in March, 1781; for an English fleet of superior force had sailed from Portsmouth nine days before him, but was delayed
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

He would bring him forward perhaps next day, or even a few days later, choosing an opportunity to cry out to us, ‘You know I was more skeptical about Smerdyakov than you, you remember that yourselves, but now I am convinced.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the artists paid little respect to the work of their predecessors, and frequently painted new designs over the earlier mural decorations.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The claims of supremacy appeared of a more weighty and substantial kind; yet by the Orientals the Roman bishop had ever been respected as the first of the five patriarchs; nor did they scruple to admit, that his jurisdiction should be exercised agreeably to the holy canons; a vague allowance, which might be defined or eluded by occasional convenience.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Between the time of its formation, and the time at which this work is passing through the press, (June 1792,) the following persons, now dead, were members of it: Mr. Dunning, (afterwards Lord Ashburton,) Mr. Samuel Dyer, Mr. Garrick, Dr. Shipley Bishop of St. Asaph, Mr. Vesey, Mr. Thomas Warton and Dr. Adam Smith.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

They send from their twelve States one hundred members, while the fourteen free States, with a free population nearly double, return but a hundred and forty-two.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Raisins of the sun, Currants, Figs, Pine Nuts, Dates, Sebastens.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Nutzlast net load Nutzlast eines Fahrzeugs payload nützlich; dienlich; brauchbar useful Nützlichkeit usefulness Nützlichkeit utility Nützlichkeit; Nutzen utility nutzlos; vergebens vain nutzloses Material useless material nutznießend beneficial Nutzschwelle break-even point Nutzung der Resourcen utilization of resources Nutzungshauptzeit controlled machine time Nutzungshauptzeit running time
— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

apritáda (from prítu ) n dish made of sauteed meat, peppers, peas, and potatoes or bananas.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[‘ lintwhite ’] -ling suffix (1) for forming personal nouns (dēorling, rǣpling).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

There is nothing else to mention except that this is a very wild region, visited by few people; nor does the king desire that any strangers should frequent the country and so find out about his treasures and other resources."
— from Siam : The Land of the White Elephant as It Was and Is by George B. (George Blagden) Bacon

"How through my fault, pray?" "No doubt of it....
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

Yet her very self-reproach for disregarding him—did it not show that, under all the feelings that held her to a life of gay coquetry, lay her love for Philip, not dead, nor always sleeping? When Cornelius came to the house to live, she met him with a warm clasp of the hand, and with a smile of so much radiance and sweetness, that for a time he must have been proud of her on Phil's behalf; and so dazzled that he could not yet see those things for which, on the same behalf, he must needs be sorrowful.
— from Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. by Robert Neilson Stephens

They did not ride those gray-green ridges for pleasure, nor drop sidling into those deep watery hollows for joy of motion.
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair

By some fatality, principally no doubt because of the interest they excited, every discovery he published was the signal for an outburst of criticism and sometimes of attack.
— from Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir

Mary refrained her hand, but full well knew No fleeting phantom, no dissolving show, No spirit only, angel of the dead, Stood there before her in the form of Him; But her Lord Christ Himself, His flesh and blood.
— from The Epic of Paul by William Cleaver Wilkinson

To make you both feel perfectly at ease I'll be equally frank and say that for nearly seven years I've been mixed up with the leading crooks of this country; not for profit; no, decidedly not; but merely for the fun of the thing."
— from Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson

The use of the first person, no doubt, is a source of relief to a novelist in the matter of composition.
— from The Craft of Fiction by Percy Lubbock

Each had done his best, in the first place, no doubt, to give satisfaction to Pontius, whom all esteemed, and to himself; but also in the hope of giving proof of his powers to the Emperor and of showing him how things could be done in Alexandria.
— from The Emperor — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers