rid krus n Red Cross. ridyistǐr n record, list of names and personal particulars of items.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In most countries there must be, of necessity, a prolonged period of inactivity on both sides in a Position War, owing to the severity of winter conditions, or to the occurrence of the rainy season, and during that period it will seldom be possible to penetrate the enemy's main defences on such a scale as to bring about the grand offensive.
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

The chateau and grounds of Neuilly, a private possession of the Duke of Orleans, lay on our left; the Bois de Boulogne, the carriage promenade of the capital, on our right.
— from Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

This added to the blockade of the Dutch fleet in the Texel, of the French fleet in Brest, and of the Spanish fleet in Cadiz, manifests the entire dominion which one nation at present possesses over the seas.
— from John Marshall by James Bradley Thayer

His coffin was carried by Tom Wood, the carpenter's son, whose father was so kind as to make it for us, while James Stavely (the clerk's nephew), my brother, and I, followed as chief mourners, and old nurse and Peggy put on their black hoods which they had when Jane Thompson died, and went with us, and we had the kitchen table-cloth for a pall, with the old black wrapper put over it which used to cover the parrot's cage; but we did not read anything, for that would not have been right, as you know.
— from Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

All manner of nations and peoples partake of its hospitalities and remember it for blessing.
— from Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine by Various

To a complete knowledge of this civilization belongs all that the ancients possessed or did, all that they thought or wrote, whether or not any particular part of it had an influence upon later times or is, in itself, interesting or valuable now.
— from College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Paul Klapper

Avignon was not an original nor a plenary possession of the Holy Fathers, but “the fairest inheritance of the Bérengers,” and it was from that family that half of the city had to be wrested—or obtained.
— from Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 by Elise Whitlock Rose

M o nína, a pretty pug or iakeanapes.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio