This partiality on the part of Miss Edna naturally engendered much jealousy in the breasts of her numerous admirers; and one, a malicious urchin, with the instincts of an Iago, plotted to make Jack Heath his avenger.
— from Mark Gildersleeve: A Novel by John S. Sauzade

Rather let us consult how I can be extricated from my embarrassments; nay, even more than that,—how I can be relieved in my extremity."
— from A Noble Name; or, Dönninghausen by Claire von Glümer

He possessed great tracts of mountain land, which was practically worthless; he saw Cistercian monks elsewhere, not exactly making such tracts blossom like the rose, but, at any rate, utilising them for pasture land, keeping flocks of sheep, becoming the great wool-growers for all Europe; why should he [Pg 110] not hand over his worthless property to Cistercians, and by so doing lay up for himself treasure in heaven and on earth?
— from Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

The music, which was so appropriately interspersed through the program, was of a high order of merit, each number exhibiting much practice and study.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

Milled edge nut Ecrou molleté.
— from English-French and French-English dictionary of the motor car, cycle, and boat by Frederick Lucas

esil, MHG. esel, NHG. esel, m., ass .] asneis , m. ( 92 ), servant, hired man, hireling ; Mk.
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

I was pleased because she was pleased, and because it showed that Lord Pledge had some sense of gratitude (although he afterward took occasion to intimate that I owed the favor chiefly to HOPE), and I believe my eyes never expressed more fondness.
— from The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper

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— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders

For thirty consecutive days the Portuguese enthusiast led this miserable existence, neither eating meat nor drinking wine, but contenting himself with the scantiest and poorest fare, and waiting for the prophetic ecstasy.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz