[A; a] prepare a salad of sweet potato tops.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But as they are all of equal weight, when by reason of their number they are no longer able to whirl about, the thin ones depart into the outer vacuum, as if they bounded through, and the others remain behind, and becoming entangled with one another, run together, and produce a sort of spherical shaped figure.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I think the latter solution the finer and more fully human, because it makes each man as somebody blamed somebody for saying of the Pope, a sort of small god.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

For a purpose unknown to us, but probably a selfish one, somebody changed those children in the cradle.”
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

60 32 quincallería : properly a shop or stall for the sale of quincalla , which the Academy defines as "metal articles, mainly cheap, as scissors, thimbles, imitation jewelry."
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

During this interval, the conjectures of people, with regard to the old gentleman's will, were various: as it was well known, he had, besides his landed estate, which was worth £700 per annum, six or seven thousand pounds at interest, some imagined that the whole real estate (which he had greatly improved) would go to the young man whom he always entertained as his heir; and that the money would be equally divided between my female cousins (five in number) and me.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Proclaim a state of siege, and in case of the least disturbance, arrest all the rich and educated, and—clean up the country!” “If I hadn’t got there in time to counsel moderation,” added Padre Irene, speaking to Capitan Tiago, “it’s certain that blood would now be flowing through the streets.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Blood, to the naked eye, appears all red; but by a good microscope, wherein its lesser parts appear, shows only some few globules of red, swimming in a pellucid liquor, and how these red globules would appear, if glasses could be found that could yet magnify them a thousand or ten thousand times more, is uncertain. 12.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

She is a beauty, a perfect prodigy, she plays at sight on several instruments, dances like Terpsichore, speaks English, French, and Italian equally well—in a word, she is really wonderful.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Anxiously and prayerfully we scan the blue sea to glance a coming sail in the fond hope that perchance a sense of shame has extorted somewhat from the powerful tyrant, or the conqueror left some corner unconquered.
— from Claudian, volume 1 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

Among the earliest were orders respecting the production and sale of spirits: to this, the oriental penalty was attached—"his still shall be destroyed, and his house pulled down."
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West

If a length of the crown were down, put a series of stays and dogs.
— from Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room Useful to Engineers, Firemen & Mechanics; Relating to Steam Generators, Pumps, Appliances, Steam Heating, Practical Plumbing, etc. by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins

[41] It appears then to be pretty certain that every man and woman possesses a store of sexual cells, derived directly from the original sexual cells from which he or she was developed.
— from Darwinism and Race Progress by John Berry Haycraft

His visitor wore his hair in a queue and powdered, a stock of soft lawn, and a dress-coat of plum-coloured cloth cut as in the days of the founders of the Republic.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Rapidly moving his one poor stump, he struck on the wires with his stick and so produced a succession of sounds that roughly resembled a tune.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Messrs. Methuen intend to produce a series of small books under the above title, containing some of the famous books in English and other literatures, in the domains of fiction, poetry, and belles lettres.
— from The Downfall of the Dervishes; or, The Avenging of Gordon by Ernest Nathaniel Bennett

The relations outlined in the diagram lay down a precise first principle for the division of social labour in a planned production—always providing a system of simple reproduction, i.e. no changes in the volume of production.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg