glad, cheerful, brisk, S3; teyte , pl. , HD.—Icel. teitr .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Natambulingaw siyag panuklì tungud sa kadaghan sa mamalítay, She got mixed up in giving change because there were so many customers.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Horse racing had once been a sport, but nowadays it was a business; a horse could be “doped” and doctored, undertrained or overtrained; it could be made to fall at any moment—or its gait could be broken by lashing it with the whip, which all the spectators would take to be a desperate effort to keep it in the lead.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Reason alone is not a sufficient foundation for virtue; what solid ground can be found?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The fashion of their beds, ropes, swords, and of the wooden bracelets they tie about their wrists, when they go to fight, and of the great canes, bored hollow at one end, by the sound of which they keep the cadence of their dances, are to be seen in several places, and amongst others, at my house.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

It was you, goddess, who delivered him by calling to Olympus the hundred-handed monster whom gods call Briareus, but men Aegaeon, for he is stronger even than his father; when therefore he took his seat all-glorious beside the son of Saturn, the other gods were afraid, and did not bind him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Besides, we consider that we have as good a right as any one to point out a neighbour's faults, particularly when we contemplate the great contrast between the two national characters; a contrast of which, as far as we can see, you have little perception, having never yet considered what sort of antagonists you will encounter in the Athenians, how widely, how absolutely different from yourselves.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The necessary play that makes for vitality—the "dither" as we called this quality in a former chapter—is given in the case of the Greek temple by the subtle curving of the lines of columns and steps, and by the rich variety of the sculpture, and in the case of the Gothic cathedral by a rougher cutting of the stone blocks and the variety in the 148 colour of the stone.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

“If I’m as good as good can be all day tomorrow will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day?” asked Davy.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The judgement of taste is therefore not a judgement of cognition, and is consequently not logical but aesthetical, by which we understand that whose determining ground can be 46 no other than subjective .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

"The letter, as requested by the chiefs, was written and sent by me to General Clarke, but he did not think proper to answer it—therefore everything remained as formerly, and, as a matter of course, the Black Hawk and his party thought the whole matter of removing from the old village had blown over.
— from Wau-Bun: The Early Day in the Northwest by Kinzie, John H., Mrs.

BLACK-TAILED GODWIT Contributed by Francis Charles Robert Jourdain HABITS
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

There was a gate close by him which had fallen off its hinges; he set to work to put it up again, labouring with a fire and vigour which was like an old inheritance renewed, and afterwards leaning over it and looking from the high ground on which he stood to the wooded fields below.
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard

Gray , Cat. Brit.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

The simplest operations grew complicated, became black dramas, as soon as he dealt with them; he became impassioned, he would have beaten his father for five francs.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

The two motor-circuits are thus connected with the generator circuit; but by reason of the presence of the resistance I in one and the self-induction coil J in the other the coincidence of the phases of the current is disturbed sufficiently to produce a progression of the poles, which starts the motor in rotation.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

Darrell, too, says, 'Right; no gold could buy a luxury—like the payment of a father's debt!'
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

What good can be gained by spending the night here, [130] when we might have done so with our comrades?"
— from With the Swamp Fox: A Story of General Marion's Young Spies by James Otis

And at present we are absorbingly interested in the advance of our world's life; we dream of better cities here, rather than of Page 219 some golden city beyond our horizon; we care far more intensely for lasting earth-wide peace that shall render impossible such awful orgies of death as this present war, than for the peace of a land that lieth afar.
— from Some Christian Convictions A Practical Restatement in Terms of Present-Day Thinking by Henry Sloane Coffin