But he was evidently afraid Sara might think he was taking a great liberty and perhaps would not let him come.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

v [B3] 1 for plants to grow lush and tall.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

His good looks and his rank had one fair claim on his attachment; since to them he must have owed a wife of very superior character to any thing deserved by his own.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The Petition of all the Devils of the Play-house in behalf of themselves and Families, setting forth their Expulsion from thence, with Certificates of their good Life and Conversation, and praying Relief.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

He looked daggers, and grinned like a ghoul.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Pursuing our analysis of the various phases in the character of Phœbus-Apollo, we find that with the first beams of his genial light, all nature awakens to renewed life, and the woods re-echo with the jubilant sound of the untaught lays, warbled by thousands of feathered choristers.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

It would be different if you grudged losing a laborer—that’s how I regard him—but you want to cure him from love of him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The partnership between Messrs. Van Gulpen, Lensing and von Gimborn was dissolved in 1906.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The two clergymen had first a squabble, and then a good laugh; after which they divided the plunder and then parted.
— from Peter Parley's Own Story From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley") by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

[53] Henry Sweet: A New English Grammar, Logical and Historical, 2 parts; Oxford, 1900-03, part i, p. 224.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Here Judge People's Friend, who had been vigorously pumping the nominating committee on the subject of the chances of the little wheel, suddenly left us, with a sneaking, self-abased air, and with his nose to the ground, like a dog who has just caught a fresh scent.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

Winny Byrne, that had been tending the fire, came over then, having her eyes fixed on the bed; and the faint laughing voices began crying out again, and a pale light, grey like a wave, came creeping over the room, and he did not know from what secret world it came.
— from Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

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— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

The grey-headed old man gliding like a ghost into her room and acting the thief while he supposed her fast asleep, then bearing off his prize and hanging over it with the ghastly exultation she had witnessed, was worse—immeasurably worse, and far more dreadful, for the moment, to reflect upon—than anything her wildest fancy could have suggested.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

He had just come back from the desert now, and an Arab astrologer who was a friend of his had told [Pg 85] him that December of this year would be for him a month of good luck and great happenings, the star of his birth being in the ascendant.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans