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— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

‘May I come in?’ said Miss Sally, peeping.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

There was again a silence, which Margaret broke at last by saying, with gentle pensiveness— "Do you think that she will ask me to be her bridesmaid, mamma, if she marries Sir Philip?
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

They would meet quietly as if they had known each other and had made their tryst, perhaps at one of the gates or in some more secret place.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Pray don’t trouble yourself to inquire,’ said Miss Squeers, producing that change of countenance which children call making a face.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To delight in seeing Men stabbed, poysoned, racked, or impaled, is certainly the Sign of a cruel Temper:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

For exceedingly difficultly soluble salts, the increase is commonly of no practical moment in analytical work, when, by an excess of the precipitant, the ion, which is to be precipitated, can be precipitated quantitatively; the solubility of the nonionized salt, that is precipitated, is so minute (see p. 148 ) in this case, even at high temperatures, that it is altogether negligible for ordinary purposes.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

In order, therefore, to bring the whole Palace into accord, harmonizing the work already done with that which was to be done, he ordained that I should make several plans and designs, and finally a wooden model after some that had pleased him, the better to be able to proceed to accommodate all the apartments according to his pleasure, and to change and put straight the old stairs, which appeared to him too steep, ill-conceived, and badly made.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 10 (of 10) Bronzino to Vasari, & General Index. by Giorgio Vasari

As it is, I shall lay it before the directors to-day, and I am sure that they will be proud to have you in our employment, and, I hope, in some more suitable position than that which you suggest.”
— from Beyond the City by Arthur Conan Doyle

He saw that the man had in some manner, secured possession of a piece of heavy driftwood.
— from Frank and Andy Afloat Or, The Cave on the Island by Vance Barnum

And jealousy of Pindar, I suspect, made some poet persuade the archons to render the distinction a vile and worthless one, by placing his effigy near a king’s—one Evagoras of Cyprus.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor