One can easily imagine the tumult which must have arisen in a numerous assembly when the hot wine and other fermented drinks, such as beer, &c., had excited every one to the highest pitch of unchecked merriment.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Se adapta a grandes espectáculos porque su escenario es vasto y está muy bien aparejado de la maquinaria para obtener una mise en scène [2] irreprochable.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The last time I was in the Commons, a civil able-bodied person in a white apron pounced out upon me from a doorway, and whispering the word ‘Marriage-licence’ in my ear, was with great difficulty prevented from taking me up in his arms and lifting me into a proctor’s.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Whether such a conflict of the living, as takes place and is settled in War, is subject to general laws, and whether these are capable of indicating a useful line of action, will be partly investigated in this book; but so much is evident in itself, that this, like every other subject which does not surpass our powers of understanding, may be lighted up, and be made more or less plain in its inner relations by an inquiring mind, and that alone is sufficient to realise the idea of a THEORY.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Forty let it be: My father and Glendower being both away, The powers of us may serve so great a day.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[A; a] put on, use, make into a pillow case.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For in his 2. Epistle, 3. Chapter, and 7. verse, he saith, that "the Heavens and the Earth that are now, are reserved unto fire against the day of Judgment, and perdition of ungodly men," and (verse 12.)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

He sat down in the drawing-room in silence, and taking an album from the table, began attentively scrutinising the faded photographs of unknown men in full trousers and top-hats, and ladies in crinolines and caps.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At that time he saw a bather carried along in the current outside the mouth of the cove, and guessed in an instant that there was but a poor chance for him unless he should be possessed of unusual muscular powers.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Paracelsus was her favourite author, and according to her he was neither man, woman, nor hermaphrodite, and had the misfortune to poison himself with an overdose of his panacea, or universal medicine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There is, however, an intelligent tendency, notably in the South, to recognize the right of women to vote as property owners upon matters involving the levying of taxes, or the "bonding" of cities, towns, or counties, for public improvements or other purposes.
— from Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute by Frederic Jesup Stimson

At the long hay-racks horses snorted and pawed frantically under the winged torture; patient oxen uttered mained lowings.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker

Guernsey none; all independents Guinea National Union for Progress or UPN [Mamadou Bhoye BARRY]; Party for Unity and Progress or PUP (the governing party)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

'I hear you see a good deal of Miss Forster's nephew,' she remarked, her eye wandering round the room, and taking in the pile of untidy music scattered about on the window-seat and Father's dirty shooting-boots under the sofa.
— from A Terrible Tomboy by Angela Brazil

Then they marched their first line off from the Hill where they stood, down into a deep Valley that lay between us & then they played on us most furiously with their artillery to keep us from meeting their people in the hollow & in short the shot & shells came like hail.
— from The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year by Henry Phelps Johnston

I have been given to understand that he means to obtain publication of it for the purpose of undermining my position with the Labour Party.
— from Nobody's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

By the prefixing of un , meaning not ; as, unyielding, unregarded, unreserved, unendowed, unendeared, unendorsed, unencountered, unencumbered, undisheartened, undishonoured .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Not from him, but from the revelation she felt to be awaiting her in this place of unguessed mystery.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

It is the Light of the Logos, the direct reflection of the ever Unknowable on the plane of Universal Manifestation.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky