n a point purposely defaulted in jai-alai in order to let the opponent have it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

“That wasn’t what I was speaking of exactly, Pyotr Petrovitch,” Dounia interrupted with some impatience.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But as to the other prognostics, calculated from the anatomy of beasts at sacrifices (to which purpose Plato does, in part, attribute the natural constitution of the intestines of the beasts themselves), the scraping of poultry, the flight of birds— “Aves quasdam . . . rerum augurandarum causa natas esse putamus.” [“We think some sorts of birds are purposely created to serve the purposes of augury.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

[33] est inimicus, aliter, si competitor (cum altero certamen honoris et dignitatis est, cum altero capitis et famae), sic cum Celtiberis, cum Cimbris bellum ut cum inimicis gerebatur, uter esset, non uter imperaret, cum Latinis, Sabinis, Samnitibus, Poenis, Pyrrho de imperio dimicabatur.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

N. acquisition; gaining &c. v.; obtainment; procuration[obs3], procurement; purchase, descent, inheritance; gift &c. 784.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

She is young and apt: Our own precedent passions do instruct us What levity's in youth.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Conocí también los primeros pasos de Internet con mis colegas de Honeywell en los Estados Unidos (fin 1978).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

THE STORMING OF A CITY Pūblius plūrīs diēs in Germāniā morātus 1 in Galliam rediit, et ad Caesaris castra sē contulit.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

My lord [4] signór the president, presidénte decreed it decretáre in his behalf.
— from Exercises upon the Different Parts of Italian Speech, with References to Veneroni's Grammar to which is added an abridgement of the Roman history, intended at once to make the learner acquainted with history, and the idiom of the Italian language by Ferdinando Bottarelli

This peaceful and pleasant progress was not a little assisted by a visit which the prudent peer deemed it advisable to make to the intended bride.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

That the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of , in execution of the powers and authorities given to and vested in them by virtue of the Public Health Act 1875, upon the report of their surveyor, whereby it appears to the said authority to be necessary to enter into, through, or under the lands and premises particularly described in the schedule hereunder written, for the several purposes hereinafter mentioned, the said mayor, aldermen, and burgesses will immediately after the day of enter into and upon the premises described in the said schedule hereto, and on the plan hereinafter mentioned numbered , for the purpose of in, through, or under the said lands and premises , and to construct all other necessary works for all or any of the purposes aforesaid.
— from The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer's Handbook by H. Percy (Henry Percy) Boulnois

In the latter year Defoe's secret connection with the government became known, and a great howl of indignation rose against him in the public print, destroying in an hour the popularity which he had gained by a lifetime of intrigue and labor.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If this means, that, at a certain stage of man's progressive political development, it is necessary to have certain political, ecclesiastical, [Pg 294] and social establishments, such as a monarchy or an aristocracy, with persons to administer them, then it is true, and government is of divine appointment.—But the fence of a farm is just as necessary to agriculture, at a certain stage of agricultural development, as government to society.
— from Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) by Theodore Parker

Again, this was the trouble which was quieted by the Compromise of 1850, when it was settled "forever" as both the great political parties declared in their National Conventions.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates by Abraham Lincoln

I ran off to my lawyer; for, it'll seem odd to ye, now, Mr. Pow's, that know my 'ffection for the Poles, poor dears, I'd an action against 'em.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

I should dearly like to go with you, but what would my poor patients do, if I happened to get an unlucky knock on the head?
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood

At present they do not wish to see the capital which they regard as their prospective prey dissipated in war; and for this reason their influence in our time will probably be on the side of peace.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

"All power I give thee; reign for ever, and assume Thy merits; under thee, as Head Supreme, Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Dominions, I reduce,"[31]
— from The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-Speaking People by John R. (John Randolph) Dos Passos