personal property, personal estate, personal effects; personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables; stock, stock in trade; things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia; equipage &c. 633. parcels, appurtenances. impedimenta; luggage, baggage; bag and baggage; pelf; cargo, lading.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

I stared at Mr. Micawber, who greatly enjoyed my surprise.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

V. be prodigal &c. adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in*; pay through the nose &c. (dear) 814; spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust, drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet[obs3]; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe[Fr].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Pas vraiment un seul "gros et méchant" souvenir.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Anyhow, compared with Germans even Methodists seem attractive to me.' "Our Junior R.C. goes on quite smoothly, in spite of the fact that Irene has come back to it—having fallen out with the Lowbridge society, I understand.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But that of M. de Saint-Candé, girdled, like Saturn, with an enormous ring, was the centre of gravity of a face which composed itself afresh every moment in relation to the glass, while his thrusting red nose and swollen sarcastic lips endeavoured by their grimaces to rise to the level of the steady flame of wit that sparkled in the polished disk, and saw itself preferred to the most ravishing eyes in the world by the smart, depraved young women whom it set dreaming of artificial charms and a refinement of sensual bliss; and then, behind him, M. de Palancy, who with his huge carp's head and goggling eyes moved slowly up and down the stream of festive gatherings, unlocking his great mandibles at every moment as though in search of his orientation, had the air of carrying about upon his person only an accidental and perhaps purely symbolical fragment of the glass wall of his aquarium, a part intended to suggest the whole which recalled to Swann, a fervent admirer of Giotto's Vices and Virtues at Padua, that Injustice by whose side a leafy bough evokes the idea of the forests that enshroud his secret lair.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

befæstan to fasten, fix, ground, establish, make safe, put in safe keeping , Æ, CP: apply, utilize : commend, entrust to , Æ, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Since to part, Go heavenly Guest, Ethereal Messenger, Sent from whose sovran goodness I adore.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Good evening, monsieur," said he.
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

And then he would have whispered in Kendall’s ear: “Got enough money, son?
— from The Little Moment of Happiness by Clarence Budington Kelland

Rachel goes every morning: she overdoes it—she'll be laid up one of these days.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

“Gone!” echoed Mrs. Starbottle.
— from Selected Stories of Bret Harte by Bret Harte

There is an engaging belief [300] among statisticians and poets that they are the born leaders of nascent democracy, and few popular movements are long secure from their help and guidance: at the time of the 1918 general election Mr. Sidney Webb and Sir Leo Chiozza-Money staked out their claim.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

it is a great sum," said Lenny, "but I will lay by, as you are kind enough to trust me; good evening, Mr. Sprott."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

Confidentes garrulique et malevoli supra lacum, Qui alteri de nihilo audacter dicunt contumeliam
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

But the Laird's nephew got even more savage as we rowed back in the calm, pale twilight.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume II by William Black