2 calypso outfit, consisting of a straw hat and a sport shirt or blouse, the lower edges and sleeves of which are scalloped or raggedy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was in this last mood, and while roaming over the Western country, whither after his banishment he had gone, that he wrote to Lucy a strange kind of letter, saying he had waited for her long enough, and sick or well he should claim her the coming autumn.
— from Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes

If the study of nature hath banished from his mind, those chimeras with which the superstitions man is infested, he, at least, enjoys a security of which this sees himself deprived.
— from The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

The dead man had been far too astute to leave even a scrap of writing indicating his design, and it was with a feeling of no common satisfaction that Lord Darsham, after that anxious hour was over, gave an attendant undertaker audience, and instructed him to provide a strictly private funeral for the morning next but one following.
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

Another, he said, lacked generosity of sympathy with halting but sincere literary endeavor, and so on with others.
— from Recollections of a Varied Life by George Cary Eggleston

One thing I can tell you proudly, mother dear: never since that day at the Presidio, ever so much more than a year ago, have I let even a sip of wine pass my lips, the first and only teetotaler among the Rays, and perhaps that has something to do with my perfect physical trim.
— from A Soldier's Trial: An Episode of the Canteen Crusade by Charles King

Foreigners not in possession of right of maintenance in the country, who seek to support themselves by manual or other [170] bodily labour, either as servants or, without legalizing themselves as travelling artisans, by any species of work necessitating journies from place to place, have to announce themselves to the Chief of the Police in whose jurisdiction they arrive, or as soon afterwards as they set about seeking such means of existence, to the Chief of the Police in whose jurisdiction they are resident at the time.
— from The Alien Invasion by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

She longed most ardently to get away but, ere she succeeded in escaping from the friendly old noble, two gentlemen hastily entered the brightly lighted entry, at sight of whom her heart seemed to stop beating.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers

It was not a congenial task, for, truth to tell, Mr Macalister was not a beguiling object, with his lugubrious face, lack-lustre eyes, and sandy, outstanding whiskers; nor did he in the first instance betray any gratitude for the attention bestowed upon him.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.