n 1 hardened sap of the píli tree ( Canarium luzonicum ) used for caulking in the walling of small boats.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We have received a second letter from Mr. Mortier, dated Demerara, September seventeenth, which communicated the gratifying intelligence that these two persons, who were servants of the governor, had been liberated upon full conviction of their entire innocence, and that no one of the members of our large society of twelve hundred and sixteen, chiefly slaves, had been in the least concerned in the revolt: and that the slaves of another estate, under the care of Mr. Cheesewright, had not only refused to join the rebels, but had conducted their master to a vessel, by which he reached Georgetown in safety.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Now the several occasions of these men's several hatred and conspiracy against Caius were these: Regulus had indignation and hatred against all injustice, for he had a mind naturally angry, and bold, and free, which made him not conceal his counsels; so he communicated them to many of his friends, and to others who seemed to him persons of activity and vigor: Minucianus entered into this conspiracy, because of the injustice done to Lepidus his particular friend, and one of the best character of all the citizens, whom Caius had slain, as also because he was afraid of himself, since Caius's wrath tended to the slaughter of all alike: and for Cherea, he came in, because he thought it a deed worthy of a free ingenuous man to kill Caius, and was ashamed of the reproaches he lay under from Caius, as though he were a coward; as al
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Let us first consider this point in the sense
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Nosco crines incanaque menta 810 Regis Romani; primam qui legibus urbem Fundabit, Curibus parvis et paupere terra Missus in imperium magnum.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

This theory certainly finds some support in the fact that the sensual pleasures generally recognised as greatest are those attending the activities of organs which are normally left unexercised for considerable intervals.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Let us first consider the taste.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Let us first consider what sort of object a word is when considered simply as a physical thing, apart from its meaning.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Cf. note el tío Buscabeatas , p. 67, 5. 71-4: educación : often loosely used for cortesía , its supposed fruit.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Oh, my Lord, Let me beseech you on my bended knee, For your own sake—for Poland's—and for his, Who, looking up for counsel to the skies, Did what he did under authority To which the kings of earth themselves are subject, And whose behest not only he that suffers, But he that executes, not comprehends, But only He that orders it— SEG.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

The cocoanut is largely used for culinary purposes in the Islands.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

Born in 1800, the son of Zachary Macaulay, one of the brilliant band of anti-slavery agitators of which Mr. Wilberforce was the head, young Babington commenced life under favourable circumstances.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

I would not have us begin, my friend, with enquiring about the whole of virtue; for that may be more than we can accomplish; let us first consider whether we have a sufficient knowledge of a part; the enquiry will thus probably be made easier to us.
— from Laches by Plato

Let us first consider the reference of instinctive actions to a faculty by which animals are said to be impelled to their performance.
— from Animal Behaviour by C. Lloyd (Conwy Lloyd) Morgan

That's why I don't like to sail any longer under false colors.
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

He lined up five cans, a few feet apart, at the base of the rise and snapped off five fast shots at them as quick as the single action would operate.
— from The Sex Life of the Gods by M. E. (Michael E.) Knerr

Several weeks later Number Two was found in Tombstone, Arizona, a town of the good old frontier sort that had little use for coroners and juries, so the fighting was half fair.
— from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier by Edgar Beecher Bronson

Better the lonely gibbet on the heath than the stalled ox of Potsdam; let us walk the plank like the honest murderers we are, and go to the perdition that suits with our knaveries and cruelties and black crimes; but let us from creaking chain and blanched sea-sand enter a protest against having the Berlin brood fathered on us; nay, sirs, must even the good fat swine in his filth be compared with such as these?
— from Kultur in Cartoons With accompanying notes by well-known English writers by Louis Raemaekers

Here Mr. Emerson made immediate inquiries about Stanley Clark, and found that he had gone on, leaving "Uniontown, Fayette County," as his forwarding address.
— from Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

"Let us forth," cried the King, stopping his ears.
— from The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth