[A; c1] gather and dump into s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“The thing’s as good as done,” I said to myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I respect Assyria, China, Teutonia, and the Hebrews, I adopt each theory, myth, god, and demigod, I see that the old accounts, bibles, genealogies, are true, without exception, I assert that all past days were what they must have been, And that they could no-how have been better than they were, And that to-day is what it must be, and that America is, And that to-day and America could no-how be better than they are.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Riches and hereditary honours have made cyphers of women to give consequence to the numerical figure; and idleness has produced a mixture of gallantry and despotism in society, which leads the very men who are the slaves of their mistresses, to tyrannize over their sisters, wives, and daughters.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Elinor was disappointed too; but at the same time her regard for Colonel Brandon ensured his welcome with her; and she felt particularly hurt that a man so partial to her sister should perceive that she experienced nothing but grief and disappointment in seeing him.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Himself ravished with the contemplation of the idea of good, and delighting in solid geometry (Rep.), he has no difficulty in imagining that a lifetime might be passed happily in such pursuits.
— from The Republic by Plato

They can, under this Article, point to any specific business, enterprise, or property, whether within or outside Germany, and demand its surrender; and their authority would appear to extend not only to property existing at the date of the Peace, but also to any which may be created or acquired at any time in the course of the next eighteen months.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

"I am searching for peace," she said, "and if I don't go and dress, I shall have none this evening.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

By it, the deputy postmaster general was directed to pay into the provincial treasury any surplus revenue, and the legislature on its part undertook to make good any deficiency, if such should arise.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

On the floor were rag rugs of almost oriental beauty made by the girls and dyed into seven craft colors.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows by Margaret Vandercook

Mohammed expresses his gratitude and devotion in such eloquent terms that Cousrouf's heart is touched, and he feels impelled to address some kindly words to the new sarechsme.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

How should we have gone a day in safety without the Nizza-neela and his Wonderstone?
— from The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

When it was over Kipps, who rarely swore, was inspired to say the scene was "damned fine" about six times over, whereupon as if by way of recognition, Chitterlow took a simply enormous portion of the inspiring antediluvian, declaring at the same time that he had rarely met a "finer" intelligence than Kipps' (stronger there might be, that he couldn't say with certainty as yet, seeing how little after all they had seen of each other, but a finer never ); that it was a shame such a gallant and discriminating intelligence should be nightly either locked up or locked out at ten—well, ten thirty then—and that he had half a mind to recommend old somebody or other (apparently the editor of a London daily paper) to put on Kipps forthwith as a dramatic critic in the place of the current incapable.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Here the gills are divided into small round tufts, and arranged in pairs along the branchial arches; a structure quite peculiar, of which we have no examples in any other fishes.
— from The Ocean World: Being a Description of the Sea and Its Living Inhabitants. by Louis Figuier

By his command Don Frederic advanced to the gates and demanded its surrender.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1566-74) by John Lothrop Motley