palstr , palster sb. prick, point, spike , Gl .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Estque quidam premendi modus, ut et foret et circumagatur; quia si leviter imprimitur parum proficit, si graviter non movetur.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Pienso añadir seis pliegos, porque sería gran falta
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Sarah, in fact, was barren; and, despairing of offspring, and being resolved that she would have at least through her handmaid that blessing she saw she could not in her own person procure, she gave her handmaid to her husband, to whom she herself had been unable to bear children.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She has only the old black velvet, and she has outgrown it." "Go and tell her to take off that preposterous pink silk gauze, and put the black one on, whether it is too short or not.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Don't be so pressing, pray, sir, go."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

We find also the Lamiæ, the two islands called Plitaniæ, Plate, Scopelos, Getone, Arthedon, Cœlæ, Lagussæ, and Didymæ.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Por lo tanto se puede poner su graito de sal, citar, ampliar el análisis, extender las investigaciones.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The Peruvians believed these phenomena portended some great calamity; that the eclipsed body was sick and about to die, in which case the world would perish.
— from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley

She said softly, almost pleadingly, "Pilli, stop! Go back, Pilli!"
— from Legacy by James H. Schmitz

"Put plenty," said Gaspé, as he ran out to see all was right.
— from Lost in the Wilds: A Canadian Story by Eleanor Stredder

Her liberal hints encountered an adamant obtuseness; he was not linguist enough, in her case, to read correctly frankly provocative pouts, slanted glances, even her gipsying fingers, that brushed his like the kiss of wind-wedded blossoms.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

Besides sharing with the Phoenicians in the trade of the Mediterranean, 9115 he constructed with their help a fleet at Ezion-Geber upon the Red Sea, 9116 and the two allies conjointly made voyages to the region, or country, called Ophir, for the purpose of procuring precious stones, gold, and almug-wood.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

Parley, Peter. See Goodrich, S. G. Pastoral Hymn, 74 .
— from Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey

I got a niece ten years old next August who can play piano so good there don't seem anythin' left to learn her, so——!
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

commodities: textiles and other manufactured consumer goods, petroleum products, sugar, grain, flour, other foodstuffs, cement, machinery, chemicals partners: Japan, Saudi Arabia, Australia, EC countries, China, Russia, US External debt: $5.75 billion (December 1989 est.)
— from The 1993 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency