— máya pútu made from pilit rice and coconut extract. — nga pinalutaw steamed rice cake.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement: to obtain a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan (agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co, 5 Dame Street, Dublin, and 2 Mincing Lane, London E. C.): to certify the presence or absence of posterior rectal orifice in the case of Hellenic female divinities: to obtain admission (gratuitous or paid) to the performance of Leah by Mrs Bandmann Palmer at the Gaiety Theatre, 46, 47, 48, 49 South King street.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The priest called in two officers of the Civil Guard, who arrested the young printer, frightened a confession out of him, and that night, in company with the friar, searched the printing-office, finding secreted there several lithographic plates for printing receipts and certificates of membership in the Katipunan, with a number of documents giving some account of the plot.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Such puzzling cases are [Pg 218] what the Societies for 'Psychical Research' are collecting and trying to interpret in the most reasonable way.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The English colonies are altogether a new market, which, partly for coin, and partly for plate, requires a continual augmenting supply of silver through a great continent where there never was any demand before.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Franklin Press: Rand, Avery, & Company, 117 Franklin Street, Boston.
— from Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880 by William W. (William Willder) Wheildon

No one supposed when the Society of Arts was planning an international exhibition of manufactures in Hyde Park, that the result would be a place for popular recreation and culture at Sydenham.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 3 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

On the contrary, it reduces both the power of the church as a whole and the influence of the individual churches for personal righteousness and community welfare.
— from Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

I possess every impression of the plates which Callot executed; many of them containing first proofs, retouched and corrected by the engraver himself in red chalk.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

In verse its products—rhythms which are often indistinguishable from prose rhythms and collocations of words to which sometimes is assignable no exact intellectual significance—are by now familiar to all who read.
— from Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

His early training may have been unsuitable for a character so mercurial, and the early death of his mother and father probably removed any change of controlling him.
— from Some Eccentrics & a Woman by Lewis Melville

Some important facts, not generally known, respecting old-time plagues and pestilences may be gleaned from parish registers and churchwardens’ accounts, and it is from such records that we propose mainly to draw materials for this chapter.
— from Old Church Lore by William Andrews

Meantime this emancipation is carried into effect; the penalty of the whip, authorized by chapter 13 of the regulations for Porto Rico and Cuba, shall be abolished; neither can there be sold separately from their mothers children younger than fourteen years, nor slaves who are united in matrimony.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson