Clark, April 17, 1806] April 17th 1806 I rose early and took a position near to the village and exposed the artiles I had for Sale Great numbers of Indians Came from different derections, Some from below Some above and others across the Countrey from the Tapteet river See description of the Nations &c.—I obtained a Sketch of the Columbia as also Clarks river.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But I got the better of them, and what do I care for Dmitri Dmitritch?
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A genitive plural in -ū̆m (or, after v , in -ŏ̄m ) is common from dīvos , dīvus , and deus , god ; from dēnārius , denar , modius , peck , nummus , money , sēstertius , sesterce , and talentum , talent , with numerals; and from cardinals and distributives ( 641 ): as, dīvŏ̄m , divū̆m , deū̆m ; mīlle sēstertiŭm ; ducentū̆m ; bīnŭm .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Related Words : Clases intelectuales, educated class; universitario, university man, doctor; licenciado, a lawyer admitted to the bar; bachiller, bachelor ( of arts ); literato, man of letters; publicista, publicist; educador, educator; sabio, learned man; naturalista, naturalist; profesor, professor; académico, academician; conferenciante (or conferencista ), lecturer; institución de enseñanza (or centro docente ), institution of learning; rector (or presidente ) de la universidad, president of the university; facultad, in Latin America, each of the schools or departments of which the university is composed; facultad de derecho y ciencias sociales (or ... de ciencias jurídicas ), school of law; ... de ingeniería (or ... de ciencias exactas ), school of engineering; ... de medicina (or ... de ciencias médicas ), school of medicine; substituto, substitute teacher; curso, course; materias, subjects; sacar matrícula (or matricularse ), to register, to matriculate; derechos de examen, examination fee; aprobado, passed; reprobado, failed; aplazado, conditioned; título, diploma; recibirse de médico, to graduate as a physician; estudiante, student; centro de estudiantes, students’ club .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

“I've got your letters in my pocket to prove it; besides, if you didn't I should give you in charge for desertion directly we get to port.”
— from Sea Urchins by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Before we speak of the form of a bone, let us say a word about, the mechanical properties of the material of which it is built 615 , in {674} relation to the strength it has to manifest or the forces it has to resist: understanding always that we mean thereby the properties of fresh or living bone, with all its organic as well as inorganic constituents, for dead, dry bone is a very different thing.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

'Very sorry,' said the British Queen of England, 'but I cannot fight de dam French."
— from Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune by Gordon Stables

Wish I could fin' dat doggone Lily Goat."
— from Lady Luck by Hugh Wiley

I know by experience that a priest is very cross when awakened early in the morning, and when he shook that old priest out of his dreams, Ali Hafed said to him: “Will you tell me where I can find diamonds?” “Diamonds!
— from Acres of Diamonds: Our Every-day Opportunities by Russell H. Conwell

[80] The only book that I can find definitely devoted to American sounds is A Handbook of American Speech, by Calvin L. Lewis; Chicago, 1916.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Oh, that I could forever dwell Delighted at the Savior's feet, Behold the form I love so well, And all his tender words repeat.
— from The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. (Edmund Simon) Lorenz

It came from "Dirty Dick's."
— from A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire by Harold Harvey