; whence Ὠφέλῐμος, ου, ὁ, ἡ, τό, -ον, profitable, useful, beneficial, serviceable, 1 Ti. 4.8, bis.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

Water that is gathered from the [193] Willow, when it flowers, the bark being slit, and a vessel fitting to receive it, is very good for redness and dimness of sight, or films that grow over the eyes, and stay the rheums that fall into them; to provoke urine, being stopped, if it be drank; to clear the face and skin from spots and discolourings.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

It outlined the facts with a cold precision unmodified by shade or colour, and refracted, as it were, from the blank walls of the surrounding limitations: she had opened windows from which no sky was ever visible.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

What is the type of persuasion used by Senator Thurston (page 50 )?
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

—I’m sure we shan’t srwive this night, therefore I av determined to put my heavy log into an M T rum-bottle, and throw it overbord, in bops it may be pickd up by some pirson who will bare my sad tail to my dear Sally.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

Theodorus Priscianus uses baca ( sic ), a berry, and bacula , little berry, and in the Additamenta
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

AEmilia and her charges were picked up by some people of Epidamnum, but some fishermen of Corinth took the babies from her by force, and she returned to Epidanmum alone, and very miserable.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We endeavoured, however, to console ourselves with the hope of being speedily picked up by some vessel and encouraged each other to bear with fortitude the evils that might happen.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"It must have dropped," Hsiang-yün added, "when you went out of doors, and been picked up by some one when you were off your guard; and he's now, instead of you, the richer for it."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

During the plowing season, the blacksmith at the Diamond H suddenly decided to leave for parts unknown, between sunset and sunrise.
— from The Long Dim Trail by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

This persistence in his first view was partly due to the confidence with which he held to his own convictions,—the defect of a strong quality,—partly, doubtless, to the fact that Villeneuve had blundered in his homeward course, and fetched unnecessarily to leeward of his port, with reference to winds perfectly understood by seamen of that day.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

677 km 1.435-m gauge (132 km electrified) note: a large amount of track is in private use by sugar plantations Highways: total: 27,700 km paved: 15,484 km unpaved: 12,216 km (1996 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

[329] A list of French words and phrases used by Shakespeare is given in A. Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon , 2 vols., Berlin, 1902, p. 1429.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley

He examined into what he considered public scandals with curiosity and persistence, undiscouraged by such private calamities as bankruptcy, and in many ways showed himself an "Enemy of the People."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

He thinks Radford (who is dying) is not in such favour as he was, though he is always there; of O’Reilly the surgeon, who sees the King every day and carries him all the gossip he can pick up, Bachelor speaks with very little ceremony.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville

Under the ascendency then acquired over them, they had been pent up by subsequent treaties into nooks straitened in their quarters by a blind cupidity, seeking to extinguish their title to immense wildernesses, for which (possessing, as we do already, more land than we can sell or use)
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

The wind was quite strong in this area at the time of our visit and only a few other species of bats— Glossophaga soricina , Artibeus jamaicensis , A. toltecus , A. phaeotis , Uroderma bilobatum , Sturnira lilium , Centurio senex , and Diphylla ecaudata —were taken in the same nets.
— from Noteworthy Records of Bats From Nicaragua, with a Checklist of the Chiropteran Fauna of the Country by J. Knox Jones

But he clambered in and plucked up breath sufficient to say: “I had hoped to get to land and bring a boat back myself, grandmamma.” “Cowad-an-liar,” she mumbled and closed her eyes.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes