With pious care He turned him to his evening prayer, Performed each customary rite, And sought his lodging for the night, With Sítá and his brother laid [pg 237] Beneath the grove's delightful shade, First good Sutíkshṇa, as elsewhere, when he saw The shades of night around them draw, With hospitable care
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Abung ka kaáyu sa íyang dautang tingúhà, You are very much exposed to his evil powers. pa-(→), pa-
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He has even papers, printed in Angrezi, telling what things he has done for weak-backed men and slack women.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Crutch turned round in his chair and prodded his neighbours with his elbows, prevented people from talking, and laughed and cried alternately.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

El aspecto de la miseria, que con 5 horribles esfuerzos pugnaba por no serlo, afligió al joven.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Sancho kept looking about for the Distressed One, to see what her face was like without the beard, and if she was as fair as her elegant person promised; but they told him that, the instant Clavileno descended flaming through the air and came to the ground, the whole band of duennas with the Trifaldi vanished, and that they were already shaved and without a stump left.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The tender mercies of God being over all his works, hath by his eternal Providence, planted Seriphian by the seaside, as a fit medicine for the bodies of those that live near it.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And what was he now?—an underwriter at Lloyd's; they said he even painted pictures—pictures!
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Reports Liquid Scintillation Counting: Proceedings of a Conference Held at Northwestern University, August 20-22, 1957 , C. G. Bell, Jr. and F. N. Hayes (Eds.), Pergamon Press, Inc., New York, 1957, 292 pp., $10.00.
— from Radioisotopes and Life Processes (Revised) by Walter E. Kisieleski

He lived with a soubrette with whom he spent his evenings, playing parchisi .
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The legate, addressing himself to the assembly, told them, that in the absence of the empress, Stephen, his brother, had been permitted to reign, and, previously to his ascending the throne, had induced them by many fair promises, of honouring and exalting the church, of maintaining the laws, and of reforming all abuses: that it grieved him to observe how much that prince had, in every particular, been wanting to his engagements; public peace was interrupted, crimes were daily committed with impunity, bishops were thrown into prison and forced to surrender their possessions, abbeys were put to sale, churches were pillaged, and the most enormous disorders prevailed in the administration: that he himself, in order to procure a redress of these grievances, had formerly summoned the king before a council of bishops; but, instead of inducing him to amend his conduct, had rather offended him by that expedient: that, how much soever misguided, that prince was still his brother, and the object of his aflections; but his interests, however, must be regarded as subordinate to those of their heavenly Father, who had now rejected him, and thrown him into the hands of his enemies: that it principally belonged to the clergy to elect and ordain kings; he had summoned them together for that purpose and having invoked the divine assistance; he now pronounced Matilda, the only descendant of Henry, the late sovereign, Queen of England.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

Portugal homogeneous Mediterranean stock; citizens of black African descent who immigrated to mainland during decolonization number less than 100,000; since 1990 East Europeans have entered Portugal Puerto Rico white (mostly Spanish origin) 80.5%, black 8%, Amerindian 0.4%, Asian 0.2%, mixed 4.2%, other 6.7% (2000 census)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Captain Turnbull, with his hands resting on his knees, and his extinguished pipe placed bowl downwards between his teeth, regarded his mate with the blank astonishment we may imagine in one who believes he at last actually sees a genuine ghost, and finally gasped in sepulchral tones— “Are you the cap’n of this ship?”
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

This was not called for in the contract and many hired spectators ran away in fright, but a few of us had enough professional pride to stand by.
— from Joy Ride by Mark Meadows

With these conditions before us, and in the light of Greene's known character and the habits of the times, it is scarcely possible to think that Greene should have waited until Dr Faustus had somewhat dimmed the lustre of Tamburlaine before imitating the latter; or that he should have ignored the undoubted vigour of the magician motive to imitate a form that had enjoyed prior popularity, only to take up for treatment a drama in the occult spirit, when this type in its turn had been laid on the shelf in favour of the newer form of chronicle play.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

“I have only two days at home until I leave for my regiment,” he explained; “but my mother has enough pleasant people here to make your visit interesting, I hope.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

The horse is laudably exercising as much free will as his equine position permits him.
— from The Troublemakers by George O. (George Oliver) Smith