To let fall, with design, a piece of gold or silver, in order to draw in and cheat the person who sees it picked up; the piece so dropped is called a dropt cog.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Its contents are derived chiefly from the eighth and especially the ninth, the Soma book.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“‘It is well; in the meantime, we will have a merry night; this young girl is charming, and does credit to your taste.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Stephen suffered him to pull out and hold up on show by its corner a dirty crumpled handkerchief.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

'Tis the secret Of nature naturis'd 'gainst all infections, Cures all diseases coming of all causes; A month's grief in a day, a year's in twelve; And, of what age soever, in a month: Past all the doses of your drugging doctors.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

They dragged us up a long inclined chute, and dripped candle-grease all over us.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

This bullion, as it circulates among different commercial countries, in the same manner as the national coin circulates in every country, may be considered as the money of the great mercantile republic.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

A compound word whose first element modifies the second in an adjectival or adverbial relation is called a descriptive compound .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Milk-sick plant ( Eupatorium ageratoides ) is a closely related plant which causes in cattle a disease called “trembles.”
— from Texas Flowers in Natural Colors by Eula Whitehouse

The heat of vegetables and the organs of life being less powerful than those of shell animals, the vegetables can produce only a small quantity of stones, which are frequently found in its fruits; but it can and does convert a great quantify of air, and a still greater of water into its substance.
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 10 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

It is only as the mental process desired becomes clearly conceived of, its connotations and denotation clearly defined, that it becomes a real goal towards Which a teacher or learner may strive.
— from How to Teach by Naomi Norsworthy

GOLF A game played over an extensive piece of ground which is divided into certain arbitrary divisions called holes.
— from Outdoor Sports and Games by Claude Harris Miller

The fair OSMUNDA seeks the silent dell, The ivy canopy, and dripping cell; 95 There hid in shades clandestine rites approves,
— from The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes. by Erasmus Darwin

Her cheeks glowed with health and maidenly modesty; and her eyes, that flashed on you one moment almost defiantly, dropped the next in coyness and delicious confusion.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

I left the wheel for a second or two to 16 close one of the skylights, and as I did so a flash of lightning seemed to set the ship on fire, and immediately came a deafening crash of thunder.
— from The Wreck of the Grosvenor, Volume 3 of 3 An account of the mutiny of the crew and the loss of the ship when trying to make the Bermudas by William Clark Russell

If there were no hereafter, no future crowns at all, it would be a terrible disappointment, but even, apart from that, the present life of every one who believes in Christ and does Christ's work, and loves as Christ loved, is richer, fuller, wider, and happier in almost every way than the life which knows Him not.
— from Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters by J. G. Greenhough