—A large tree, with leaves opposite, oval, entire, acute, downy.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

The orchestral concerts, which had been organised by me in the previous winter, were this year placed under Reissiger's control, and at once sank to the usual level of ordinary concerts.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

As we have already explained, in the case of first love, the soul is taken long before the body; later on, one takes the body long before the soul; sometimes one does not take the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: “Because there is none”; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Martha sat up on her heels, with her blacking-brush in her hand, and laughed, without seeming the least out of temper.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Looking out on this, I felt that I was indeed in prison, and I seemed to want a breath of fresh air, though it were of the night.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

So without supper to bed, my eyes being also a little overwrought of late that I could not stay up to read.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The company was now divided into three divisions, we going with the original leader to the vicinity of Decorah, landing on our claims on the third of July.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Then informed ourselves where we might have some creame, and they guided us to one Goody Best’s, a little out of the towne towards London road, and thither we went with the coach, and find it a mighty clean, plain house, and had a dish of very good creame to our liking, and so away presently very merry, and fell to reading of the several Advices to a Painter, which made us good sport, and indeed are very witty, and Creed did also repeat to me some of the substance of letters of old Burleigh in Queen Elizabeth’s time, which he hath of late read in the printed Cabbala, which is a very fine style at this day and fit to be imitated.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

It is often useful, and with the institutions of our own country even necessary, from the scarcity, in the localities, of officers representing the general government, that the execution of duties imposed by the central authority should be intrusted to functionaries appointed for local purposes by the locality.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Repression of our outward movements enables us to achieve that control over our emotions which makes a perfect cloak for our intentions, and leaves our opponents in perplexity as to how to attack the fortress that they wish to conquer.
— from Poise: How to Attain It by D. Starke

As conversation set in lively and amusement was the order of the day, Mr. Stanhope and his friend quietly sat and looked on, occasionally answering to some of the sallies sent off at their expense.
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

—At 5 o'clock the bell of the cathedral sounded long and loud over our heads, leaving no excuse for those who chose to slumber on.
— from Journal in France in 1845 and 1848 with Letters from Italy in 1847 Of Things and Persons Concerning the Church and Education by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

He had just got round to the public-house, "'long of old White," when "a feller come in," inquiring for him.
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt

He would walk out with an old jackknife in his hand, and conveniently located just behind him could be seen a lump of opium as big as a cannonball.
— from The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron

Hence, even works that are either frequently or always played apart from their intended operatic setting—as the several "Leonora" overtures of Beethoven, and the "Francs-Juges" and "Benvenuto Cellini" overtures of Berlioz—are not included.
— from Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day by Lawrence Gilman

Faria then drew forth from his hiding-place three or four rolls of linen, laid one over the other, like folds of papyrus.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Those pestilent British cruisers are interfering with him, and we know that when they meddle with a business of that kind it means simple ruination for the honest people who are trying to make a livelihood out of it; consequently, our amigo Carera is no longer able to depend upon finding a rich cargo, at a low figure for cash, awaiting him at Giuseppe’s snug little stronghold.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

The man had in his hand a small pistol, which he fired off, and I heard that the ball had struck the leg of one of Osterhaus's staff; the regiment stopped; there was a moment of confusion, when the soldiers of that regiment began to fire over our heads in the grove.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman