There was a glorious supper downstairs, notwithstanding, and a good long sitting after it; and when Mr. Pickwick awoke, late the next morning, he had a confused recollection of having, severally and confidentially, invited somewhere about five-and-forty people to dine with him at the George and Vulture, the very first time they came to London; which Mr. Pickwick rightly considered a pretty certain indication of his having taken something besides exercise, on the previous night.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

faru f. way, going, journey, course , Æ: expedition, march : procession, retinue, companions : life, proceedings, adventures , Æ: movable possessions . fas-
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

But the laugh did startle him; it still seemed wonderful that across all those miles and miles of country—forest, river, mountain, prairie, roaring cities and busy indifferent millions—Dallas's laugh should be able to say: "Of course, whatever happens, I must get back on the first, because Fanny Beaufort and I are to be married on the fifth.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

With moral, political, religious considerations, high and dear as they may otherwise be, the philosopher, as such, has no concern.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The OWI was placed under Mr. Elmer Davis, a Rhodes scholar and novelist who had become one of the nation's most popular radio commentators.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

2 do s.t. to make personal relations close (lit.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

William C. Wilder, George W. Smith, Mark P. Robinson, Cecil Brown, John Phillips, John Ena, P. C. Jones, D. L. Naone, Samuel M. Ka-ne, J. A. Kennedy, A. G. M. Robertson, John Nott, C. Bolte, E. C. Winston, J. P. Mendonca.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

“Two roubles is my price,” repeated Chichikov.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

First there are the priests, a holy order set apart and endowed with mysterious power, representing Christ and administering his gifts.
— from Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude

“I have said my prayers,” replied Content, and her blue eyes were full of horrified astonishment at the suspicion.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Estimating, therefore, the average yield of rice-paddy to be 50 cabanes measure per ordinary caban of land, the same superficie, were it suitable for maize-raising, would give one-fifth of 400-fold per annum = 80 cabanes measure of maize per rice caban of land.
— 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.