[56-6] porque me gusta disfrutar de estas hermosas mañanas de Abril.—Pero, si no me engaño, usted rezaba cuando yo 10 llegue....—Puede V. continuar.—Yo seguiré leyendo entretanto, supuesto que el escaso andar de esa infame galera le permite a uno estudiar en mitad de los caminos.... —¡Vamos!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

SYN: Assign, apportion, attribute, accord, grant, distribute, divide, allot, give, determine, decree, order, adjudge.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

pag-uk a grayish, darkened due to dirt.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Zohar also says: "Tradition tells us that the best of the Gentiles deserves death.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I answered, "Sir, notwithstanding all the seriousness, and all the terrours, I have no objection to your publishing your play; and as you live at a great distance, (Devonshire, I believe,) if you will send it to me, I will convey it to the press."
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

(le tout garni de douze bonnes contre-basses).
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

He compared his own behaviour with that of the young Hungarian, and found himself so light in the scale, that he smote his breast with violence, exclaiming in an agony of remorse: “Count Melvil has reason to grieve; Don Diego to despair.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

At length a Reverend Sire among them came, And of thir doings great dislike declar'd, And testifi'd against thir wayes; hee oft Frequented thir Assemblies, whereso met, Triumphs or Festivals, and to them preachd Conversion and Repentance, as to Souls 720 In prison under Judgements imminent: But all in vain: which when he saw, he ceas'd Contending, and remov'd his Tents farr off; Then from the Mountain hewing Timber tall, Began to build a Vessel of huge bulk, FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size Measur'd by Cubit, length, & breadth, and highth, Smeard round with Pitch, and in the side a dore Contriv'd, and of provisions laid in large For Man and Beast: when loe a wonder strange! Of everie Beast, and Bird, and Insect small 730 Came seavens, and pairs, and enterd in, as taught Thir order; last the Sire, and his three Sons With thir four Wives, and God made fast the dore.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

First they clambered to the top of the great down, during which ascent he had occasionally to take her hand to assist her.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The patient complained of having suffered a great deal during the night, and expressed a fear that his struggle might be prolonged, to his great distress, for days or weeks longer.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

That extraordinary virtue which the impulse and exercise of active benevolence has in developing the soul and awakening its latent powers from torpor, may appear from the following incident lately observed at Mr. Bost's, in Laforce, Dordogne: One day a poor girl, deaf, dumb, blind, paralytic, and epileptic, was brought to Bethesda.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

O ye gods, Drawn down from heaven by the throes of Rome, May he be conqueror who shall not draw Against the vanquished an inhuman sword, Nor count it as a crime if men of Rome Preferred another's standard to his own.
— from Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan

In an antique frame above the chimney-piece appeared the portrait of some worthy man, attributed to Memling, which no doubt represented an ancestor of the Van Tricasses, whose authentic genealogy dates back to the fourteenth century, the period when the Flemings and Guy de Dampierre were engaged in wars with the Emperor Rudolph of Hapsburgh.
— from A Winter Amid the Ice, and Other Thrilling Stories by Jules Verne

Then the speaker waded into the popular frivolities of the times; cards, dice, gambling, drinking, dancing and other pastimes.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

But then he was a good deal disappointed about Yo Semite, too.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 01 by Mark Twain

Suppose you have de painter who take de looking-glass; and when you look in him, glue down de reflection dare for ever!—de natural colour, de natural drawing, de light and de shade?
— from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird

Philippa was a good deal disappointed the next day that Kathleen had no more to tell her.
— from The Old Pincushion; or, Aunt Clotilda's Guests by Mrs. Molesworth