walà, dílì pa- appear right after being spoken about.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For the last three days Boguchárovo had lain between the two hostile armies, so that it was as easy for the Russian rearguard to get to it as for the French vanguard; Rostóv, as a careful squadron commander, wished to take such provisions as remained at Boguchárovo before the French could get them.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

For if the Rays both in going in and out at the first Surface be in Fits of easy Transmission, and the Intervals and Numbers of those Fits between the first and second Surface, before and after Reflexion, be equal, the distances of the Fits of easy Transmission from either Surface, must be in the same progression after Reflexion as before; that is, from the first Surface which transmitted them in the progression of the even Numbers 0, 2, 4, 6, [Pg 288] 8, &c. and from the second which reflected them, in that of the odd Numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, &c.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The green-baize covered card-table was adorned with gaudily-bound annuals or books of beauty, placed at right angles; but Robert Audley did not avail himself of these literary distractions.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He was amazed at the sudden impression that his words had produced, and, remembering a book that he had read when he was sixteen, a book which had revealed to him much that he had not known before, he wondered whether Dorian Gray was passing through a similar experience.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Hence all simple colours, so far as they are pure, are regarded as beautiful; composite colours have not this advantage, because, as they are not simple, we have no standard for judging whether they should be called pure or not.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Thence they swept along the north coast of Africa, bringing to an end all that survived of Roman power and religion, and by 720 they had crossed into Europe and were in possession of Spain.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

Just as a silver mirror that is formed of a thin plate reflects indistinctly and with a feeble light, while one that is substantially made can take on a very high polish, and reflects a brilliant and distinct image when one looks therein, so it is with stucco.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Can you believe that because Saul took the king alive after killing every other man, woman, and child, the ogre called Jehovah was displeased and made up his mind to hurl Saul from the throne and give his place to another?3 I cannot believe that the Philistines all ran away because one of their number was killed with a stone.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

The principal clauses in this edict were:—That the Vaudois should not perform any religious act beyond the limits of the valleys
— from L'Histoire Des Vaudois From Authentic Details of the Valdenses by J. Bresse

Then Jim turned as pale as rendlewood, and busted out, “If she don’t marry me to-day,” ’a said, “she don’t marry me at all!
— from The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy

They were in a long line, painted alternately red and black, and stretching from a position a mile north of Maitos village to a steamer moored in Nagara Liman.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

Schouvaloff, Count Peter , a Russian ambassador, born at St. Petersburg; became in 1806 head of the secret police; came to England in 1873 on a secret mission to arrange the marriage of the Emperor Alexander II.'s daughter with the Duke of Edinburgh; was one of Russia's representatives at the Congress of Berlin (1827-1889).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

It was a vase of the K'angshi Period, a rare and beautiful specimen among the Lang Yao monochromes.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

The castle has very thick stone walls, and the platforms are regular, and both have several culverines and sakers mounted....
— from The New Forest: Its History and Its Scenery by John R. (John Richard) Wise

9 Though Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not to produce a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
— from A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth by Thomas Haweis

Thirdly, They are tormented themselves by the looks of persons that are present, and recovered again by the touching of them.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham