The chief classes of participles are present participles and past participles , so called from the time which they denote.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The chief classes of participles are present participles and past participles, so called from the time which they denote.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

minirba n hand-fed printing press (so called from the trade name, Minerva).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Poirot politely set chairs for everyone.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

On the anniversary, according to the Japanese calendar, of the attack referred to on a previous page, some Commissioners for Foreign Affairs in calling upon Colonel Neale, congratulated him and themselves on the fact that a whole year had elapsed since any fresh attempt had been made on the life of a foreigner.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

But the old public punishment still continued, for in 1600 (the year before the execution of Essex) we read that "Mrs. Fowler's case was decided" by sentencing that lady to be whipped in Bridewell; while a Captain Hermes was sent to the pillory, his brother was fined £100 and imprisoned, and Gascone, a soldier, was sentenced to ride to the Cheapside pillory with his face to the horse's tail, [Pg 633] to be there branded in the face, and afterwards imprisoned for life.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

The Panorpas , properly so called ( Fig. 410 ), are found on hedges and plants during the summer.
— from The Insect World Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species by Louis Figuier

N’étaient-elles pas plus sympathiques, ces filles de Paris, que toutes ces drôlesses, pêches à quinze sous de Dumas fils.—
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

How can the Portuguese public so completely forget an old favourite?
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 2 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

Here Mr. Park procured some corn for his horse, in exchange for some brass buttons, and thanking the shepherd for his hospitality departed.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish

"And what was the message that you were to give to the folk and the priest?" "Please, sir, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'" This was such a queer answer that Lackington gave an incredulous exclamation.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

But I do mean that when the practical political situation called for universal military service in order to support and expand the existing state, the gospel of a Duty devoid of content naturally lent itself to the consecration and idealization of such specific duties as the existing national order might prescribe.
— from German philosophy and politics by John Dewey