SYN: Gluttonous, voracious, hungry, desirous, avaricious.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

For the tribal hero of the former has in the latter been transformed into a national hero, the moral ideal of the people; and the human hero (like Kṛishṇa in the Mahābhārata ) of the five genuine books (excepting a few interpolations) has in the first and last become deified and identified with the god Vishṇu, his divine nature in these additions being always present to the minds of their authors.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Malino July 31 Silanga August 9 Ginga August 13 San Fernando August 15 Maragadin August 20 Talinga August 21 Santa Cruz August 22 Dap-dap August 29 Palencia August 31 Albalate (date not given) Villa Hermosa (date not given)
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

In the year 1642, the Archbishop Guerreo visited his diocese, and in the harbour of Naryan, in Mindoro, a pirate seized his vessel, with all his equipage, he himself, with great difficulty, saving himself by flight.
— from An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga

The girls voted him delightful and Ethel was proud of him.
— from Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl by Irene Elliott Benson

The girl voiced her disappointment.
— from Red Dynamite A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

[46] In another letter Hyperion explains their incapacity for finer feeling and appreciation when he writes: "Neide die Leidensfreien nicht, die Götzen von Holz, denen nichts mangelt, weil ihre Seele so arm ist, die nichts fragen nach Regen und Sonnenschein, weil sie nichts haben, was der Pflege bedürfte.
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

The climate at first seemed to relieve him, but his complaints returning with greater violence, he died in the latter part of the second year of his abode there.
— from A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott

This man, a low fellow, probably a professional cardsharper, vowed that he had been robbed of a jewel which his host had staked, and it was said that a ring of great value had disappeared.
— from Uncanny Tales by Mrs. Molesworth

“Good evening,” called the child in her gentle voice; “how do you do?”
— from The Boy Patrol Around the Council Fire by Edward Sylvester Ellis

The scene lies in Dalecarlia, a country forever memorable as having witnessed some of the earliest adventures of Gustavus Vasa, his deepest humiliation, and the first commencement of his prosperous fortune.
— from A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion Principal Historical Facts and Personages of the Books Known as The Old and New Testament; With Remarks on the Morality of Nature by Benjamin Offen

Simpson believes that there was fairly strong climatic selectivity even in the Miocene interchanges, and he indicates several important groups that were non-migrants in the Miocene, most of them remaining so through the Pliocene and Pleistocene—the primates, Rhizomyidae, Gliridae, Viverridae, Hyaenidae, Dicerorhininae, Suidae, late Anthracotheriidae, Hippopotamidae, Tragulidae, Muntiacinae, Lagomerycidae, Giraffidae, and Bovidae.
— from Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus by Henry S. (Henry Sheldon) Fitch