nonplus, quandary, strait, pass, pinch, pretty pass, stress, brunt; critical situation, crisis; trial, rub, emergency, exigency, scramble. scrape, hobble, slough, quagmire, hot water, hornet's nest; sea of troubles, peck of troubles; pretty kettle of fish; pickle, stew, imbroglio, mess, ado; false position. set fast, stand, standstill; deadlock, dead set.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

2 protection, safety from s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The shower of gold in the Greek story, and the eye of God in the Kirghiz legend, probably stand for sunlight and the sun.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Prices of the buttons per set for coat is 15 cents and per set for shirt 10 cents.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Masaárung kaugmáun, A promising future. pakig- n covenant, mutual giving of promises. saag (from saláag ) a stray, not in the usual course or passage.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

WE therefore, the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the City of New-York, assembled in Common Council, to express our grateful Sense and Acknowledgment, to the said Captain Peter Solgard, for so noble and faithful a Discharge of his Duty, and as a particular Mark of the great Esteem and just Regard we bear to his kind Acceptance of the Freedom of the Corporation of this City of New-York, and that he will please to become a Fellow Citizen with us.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

Thus the tender and gentle passions spring from self-love, while the hateful and angry passions spring from selfishness.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I cannot fix my object; ‘tis always tottering and reeling by a natural giddiness; I take it as it is at the instant I consider it; I do not paint its being, I paint its passage; not a passing from one age to another, or, as the people say, from seven to seven years, but from day to day, from minute to minute, I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

In this group are the shads and the alewives or river herrings, the white perch, the striped bass or rock fish, some {107} of the sturgeons, and the Atlantic salmon, all of which go back to sea after spawning, and the Pacific salmons (five species), all of which die after spawning.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Su. G. laat-as , Isl. laet-a , id. prae se ferre, sive vere sive simulando.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

Roofs were black with gazing folk in knots, Leveling their spyglasses Like phalanx spears, From sea wall to the chimney tops.
— from Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by DuBose Heyward

[pg 392] LESSONS WITH PLANTS: Suggestions for Seeing and Interpreting Some of the Common Forms of Vegetation.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

Panorama seen from St. Mark's Basin 64 28.
— from Venice by Dorothy Menpes

Next day, the English captain hanged a man of the Panama ship, for secreting two plates of gold, which were found about him, after which that ship was turned adrift.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr