She offered once or twice to speak in favour of Joseph; but found her lady's heart so obdurate, that she prudently dropt all such efforts.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

[A2; ac] squeeze into or penetrate deeply and slowly into a very tight space.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Feeling of no kind abounded in that house; this pure little drop from a pure little source was too sweet: it penetrated deep, and subdued the heart, and sent a gush to the eyes.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

If she cherishes, in spite of her pretended disgust, a secret partiality for the individual who distinguishes her, if she is lowering the esteem of a man whom she prefers, she not only incurs the hazard of losing his regard, but she is scattering ridicule on one whom she afterwards avows [250] as her choice.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

This high rate of increase is proved by calculation—by the rapid increase of many animals and plants during a succession of peculiar seasons, and when naturalised in new countries.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

If the lines are cut out, not only is the metre spoilt, but the obvious reason for Iago's words, 'I see, Sir, you are eaten up with passion,' disappears, and so does the reference of his word 'satisfied' in 393 to Othello's 'satisfied' in 390.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

And with many prayers did Aeson's son beseech the goddess to turn aside the stormy blasts as he poured libations on the blazing sacrifice; and at the same time by command of Orpheus the youths trod a measure dancing in full armour, and clashed with their swords on their shields, so that the ill-omened cry might be lost in the air the wail which the people were still sending up in grief for their king.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

| TRICKLE is a large collection of public domain and shareware | | programs for MS-DOS, CPM, and other computers.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The group before him consisted of French and Spanish peasants, the inhabitants of a neighbouring hamlet, some of whom were performing a sprightly dance, the women with castanets in their hands, to the sounds of a lute and a tamborine, till, from the brisk melody of France, the music softened into a slow movement, to which two female peasants danced a Spanish Pavan.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“Para decir al S r .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

COMPILED WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES, AND AN INTRODUCTION, BY B. F. FRENCH, Member of the Louisiana Historical Society; of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Honorary Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, etc., etc. ———— PART II. ———— PHILADELPHIA: DANIELS AND SMITH.
— from A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557 by Knight of Elvas

When Etruria came in with Mary's tea she found her mistress bending over the fire in an attitude of painful depression, and she said a few words, trying to impart to her something of her own patience.
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Her cousin, Lieutenant S., then received from her a card, on which was written the name of a lady he had known in Charleston, South Carolina, In return he handed her a card, on which was a likeness of President Davis, and she seemed delighted at the 42 exchange.
— from Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner Being an Ephemeris Regularly Kept by an Officer of the Confederate States Army by Beckwith West

“I was quite—” At that moment, a tall straight woman of uncertain age pushed open the principal door and stood for an instant in the doorway.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

But I said Conly was probably drowned, anyhow, so it was hardly worth while to sacrifice our experiments on that account; and I told Jones that a man of his intelligence ought to be willing to endure something for the sake of scientific truth.
— from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

`Pearl, did Aloysius send Eddie out with that boiler, special?'
— from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber

And many fail now to perceive that personal development and service of God are in the same line.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

And so Señor Bernardo Albareda, penniless derelict and strongly suspected of being a fugitive from the Spanish convict establishment at Melilla, was extracting the tusks.
— from The Pursuit by Frank (Frank Mackenzie) Savile