To look for Bonaparte!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

= lēapewince hlæst n. burden, load, freight , B, Rd .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Then next have you the Augustine Friars church and churchyard; the entering thereunto by a south gate to the west porch, a large church, having a most fine spired steeple, small, high, and straight, I have not seen the like: founded by Humfrey [160] Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, in the year 1253.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last and managed to swallow a morsel of the left-hand bit.... "Come, my head's free at last!" said Alice; but all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

“The little fellow became exalted by these tender or terrible stories, and at times he would clap his hands, crying: 'I, too, I, too, know how to love, better than all of them!'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In the first four examples, the copulative verb (the simple predicate 26 ) is followed by a predicate nominative ( § 88, 2 ); in the last five by a predicate adjective ( § 172, 3 ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

As a cauldron upon a large fire boils when it is melting the lard of some fatted hog, and the lard keeps bubbling up all over when the dry faggots blaze under it—even so were the goodly waters of Xanthus heated with the fire till they were boiling.
— from The Iliad by Homer

All Fancies are Motions within us, reliques of those made in the Sense: And those motions that immediately succeeded one another in the sense, continue also together after Sense: In so much as the former comming again to take place, and be praedominant, the later followeth, by coherence of the matter moved, is such manner, as water upon a plain Table is drawn which way any one part of it is guided by the finger.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Forces of nature dance like flies before the net, and the spider pounces on them when it can; but it makes many fatal mistakes, though its theory of force is sound.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

This was the little foreign boy who was sitting curled up on the foot of her bed, nibbling hungrily at a handful of biscuits.
— from Rose à Charlitte by Marshall Saunders

It was not in any remarkable beauty that its distinction lay, for by the canons of beauty that prevail it was not beautiful.
— from The Lion's Skin by Rafael Sabatini

, that looks as if it were trying to protect itself from cold rather than heat, as its pretty foliage and stems seem all made of silvery, gray velvet, forming a symmetrical rosette, dotted with the small, rayless, yellow flower-heads, like fuzzy buttons.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

See Trollope Giorgi, Signor, 217 “Gold Hair,” 204 Gosse, Edmund, 97 , 281 “Grammarian’s Burial, A,” 152 “Greek Christian Poets, The,” 23 , 65 , 206 Griffin, Professor Hall, 27 , 118 , 134 “Guardian Angel, The,” 103 , 152 Gurney, Rev. Archer, 38 “Half Rome,” 218 Haworth, Fanny, letter from Browning, 36 ; 40 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 150 , 178-179 “Hector in the Garden,” 47 “Helen’s Tower,” 222 “Hervé Riel,” 211 Hillard, George Stillman, 106 , 118 Hodell, Dr. Charles W., 215-216 Holmes, Dr. Oliver Wendell, 48 “Holy Cross Day,” 158 Hope End, 16 , 19 , 22 , 24 Horne, Richard Hengist, letter from Elizabeth Barrett, 19 , 59 ; friendship with Miss Barrett, 30 , 53 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 65 , 68 Hosmer, Harriet, takes cast of “Clasped Hands,” 153 ; excursion with Brownings, 156 , 157 ; letter from Browning, 168 ; visits poets, 191 , 194 “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix,” 35 “In a Balcony,” 144 , 158 , 203
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

The Joint Secretaries of the Bharat Stri Maha Mandal, Punjab Branch, send a report of the Swadeshi activities of Shrimati Saraladevi Chaudhrani ever since her return to Lahore from Bombay.
— from The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi

Honoria, for instance, was always practising, and she would take poor me to rehearse her accomplishment upon; or the exciseman, when he came his rounds, or the steward, or the poor curate, or the young apothecary’s lad from Brady’s Town: whom I recollect beating once for that very reason.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

This group of three remained to pray after the others had left the chapel, remained as a pleasure really to pray, the serious, high-browed, little faces bent over their books of devotion as they read the After-Communion devotions by the light of a tall candle placed on the floor beside them; then their blue eyes closed in such sweet, unconscious piety that it touched the heart strangely.
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Revolutions accomplished by means of popular risings are generally longed for beforehand rather than premeditated.
— from The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 86% (1997 est.)
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency