3 for machinery (gears, propellers, etc.) not to engage.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In Mohita Babu's edition these Morning Songs have been placed in the group of poems entitled Nishkraman , The Emergence.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

I demand that this work should be done, not upon the ground that it is politically expedient now to enfranchise black men; but I propose that you take expediency out of the way, and put a principle which is more enduring in the place of it—manhood and womanhood suffrage for all.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

She sat in the barge, gazing out along the river, her veil closely drawn over her head, lest prying eyes noted the expression on her face.
— from The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

We have good reason to believe, that many well-disposed persons would be glad, in this way, to aid the cause of humanity—and to devote a portion of their leisure hours to the augmenting of the resources of benevolence—but they are destitute of the practical experience necessary to enable them to do so.
— from The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

An itinerant (p. 384) Jewish glazier, crying his wares, was beckoned into a stable by the foreman, and bidden to replace a lot of broken panes, enough nearly to exhaust his stock.
— from The Battle with the Slum by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

Mary observed with contempt that they were prudent enough not to exercise even these specimens of a mean hostility except when its noble object had turned his back, and regarding him with increased admiration, she was indignant, and then disdainful, at the envy which actuated these men to treat with affected scorn him whom they secretly feared.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

My surgeon isn’t equal to the Philippines either, nor the Ephesians, nor Colossians, and he’s going back to some fort in the mountains.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

Synonyms: complete, ingrained, perfect, constitutional, innate, positive, entire, native, primitive, essential, natural, thorough, extreme, organic, thoroughgoing, fundamental, original, total.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

According to the 'Calendars of State Papers,' Edward Norgate the elder was in 1611 appointed, in conjunction with Andrea Bassano, to the office of tuner of the King's virginals, organs, and other instruments; and six-and-twenty years later we find him superintending the repair of the organ in the chapel at Hampton Court.
— from Old Picture Books, With Other Essays on Bookish Subjects by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard