detonating device used formerly to set off loud explosions during gala or religious festivities.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Just sit there, looking blistered, and wave away each course as it comes with a weary gesture of resignation.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

The wizard takes three balls of rice, blackens one, reddens another, and passes through the third a young yetah fish ( Bagarius yarrellii ), after having put down its throat seven green chillies, seven grains of raw rice, and as many of pepper.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

With the child in his arms his figure was now more conspicuous than before, and a group of Russians, both men and women, gathered about him.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There be those as much taken with Michael Angelo's, Raphael de Urbino's, Francesco Francia's pieces, and many of those Italian and Dutch painters, which were excellent in their ages; and esteem of it as a most pleasing sight, to view those neat architectures, devices, escutcheons, coats of arms, read such books, to peruse old coins of several sorts in a fair gallery; artificial works, perspective glasses, old relics, Roman antiquities, variety of colours.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But that other clause of licensing books, which we thought had died with his brother quadragesimal and matrimonial when the prelates expired, I shall now attend with such a homily, as shall lay before ye, first the inventors of it to be those whom ye will be loath to own; next what is to be thought in general of reading, whatever sort the books be; and that this Order avails nothing to the suppressing of scandalous, seditious, and libellous books, which were mainly intended to be suppressed.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

It takes away the guard of reason, and consequently forces us to produce those symptoms, which many, when sober, have art enough to conceal.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

He spoke to me for an hour, and I understood him very well, but he only got one reply: “I don’t understand what you say.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The character of Panurge, in the "Pantagruel," is no other than the type of Faifeu, immortalised by the genius of Rabelais.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Then, as we walked to the carriage, he continued addressing himself to his daughter, in a lowered voice, “You see, Berenice, here, as in a thousand instances, how general and permanent good often results from partial and temporary evil.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

Some steps were taken, however, to free these lands, as well as other measures to hinder the giving of realty in mortmain.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Good p. 127 style is the greatest of revealers,—it lays bare the soul.
— from Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

The daily diet consisted of two hundred to four hundred grams of a poor grade of rice, containing fine gravel and insects, about one hundred grams of weeds (from carabao wallows), and, on a rare occasion, ten grams of "one" of the following: sugar, coconut oil, beans, camote (sweet potato), corn, or meat.
— from Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book by Eugene C. Jacobs

As a last resort, you can carry the affair up to the general management of the company, where complaints are investigated with more or less care, and satisfaction is given or refused.
— from How to Travel Hints, Advice, and Suggestions to Travelers by Land and Sea all over the Globe. by Thomas Wallace Knox

When she adapts as closely to concrete conditions as it is imperative for man to do, not only does she exhaust the potential fertility indispensable to the further evolution and growth of racial faculty, but her powers lose that mode of flux which enables them to tide to higher levels.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

It created the towns as the solid foundation of the whole political structure of the State, trained the people as in a perpetual school for self-government, and fitted them to be the guardians of republican liberty and order.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

And before Anne could speak, Pat was gone to join some other boys in a game of ring toss.
— from Honey-Sweet by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

After proving Coleridge to be guilty of robbery, he could not convince the ordinary mind that he was an honest man.
— from Opium Eating: An Autobiographical Sketch by an Habituate by Anonymous

I persuade you, that God is wringing grapes of red wine for Scotland; and that this land shall drink, and spue and fall.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford