After the rest has been comprehended and said, even the grandest—after those contributions to mightiest nationality, or to sweetest song, or to the best personalism, male or female, have been glean'd from the rich and varied themes of tangible life, and have been fully accepted and sung, and the pervading fact of visible existence, with the duty it devolves, is rounded and apparently completed, it still remains to be really completed by suffusing through the whole and several, that other pervading invisible fact, so large a part, (is it not the largest part?) of life here, combining the rest, and furnishing, for person or State, the only permanent and unitary meaning to all, even the meanest life, consistently with the dignity of the universe, in Time.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

[A; b] 1 play or sing the opening part of a musical composition.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then to my father’s, who tells me what he has done, and we resolved upon two pieces of scarlet, two of purple, and two of black, and L50 in linen.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

At intervals the wire would be attached to trees, or some other permanent object, so that one pole was sufficient at a place.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Theoretically, he considered a soap-stock made entirely from beef tallow the most suitable for the purpose, but in practice found that [Pg 87] the best results were obtained by using a superfatted soap made from a blend of one part of olive oil with eight parts of beef tallow, saponified with a mixture of two parts of soda to one part of potash, sufficient fat being employed to leave an excess of 3 or 4 per cent.
— from The Handbook of Soap Manufacture by W. H. (William Herbert) Simmons

To make a mustard plaster, or sinapism, take one part of powdered mustard, and about three times the quantity of flour and mix into a paste with tepid water, and spread it evenly between two pieces of thin muslin.
— from Mother, Nurse and Infant A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies. by S. P. Sackett

"Let the prisoner be removed, and kept in a place of safety till our pleasure respecting him be made known," cried James.
— from The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 by William Harrison Ainsworth

A FRENCH CONFECTIONERS RECIPE.—Allow one pound of sugar to one pint of juice.
— from Recipes Tried and True by Ohio). Ladies' Aid Society First Presbyterian Church (Marion

It might arise, for instance, from unfair opportunities of view, or from the usurped privilege of some to obstruct [Pg 244] the vision of others.
— from The Man from Mars: His Morals, Politics and Religion by William Simpson

"On the breeding grounds we frequently hear its loud notes of protest, uttered while it is flying about or perched on some tree or post; these are in the form of a loud clear whistle, like wheat wheat wheat wheat or more subdued in tone like whuck whuck whuck whuck ; they are always rapidly uttered and usually consist of four or five notes.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

but that you will wield it with more honor than it hath derived from the present owner,” said the other pressing it upon the lad.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

Preserved Tomatoes —One pound of sugar to one pound of ripe tomatoes boiled down; flavor with lemon.
— from Barkham Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Barkham Burroughs

It does not, however, accord with the previous or subsequent tables of population.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The British, on the other hand, made diligent use of this interval, in taking possession of mountain passes, and thus accomplished the double purpose of securing their own position and narrowing the limits of Dearborn's possessions, and destroying his communication.
— from The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley