Anna Pavlovna was sitting with her partner, and, flirting her fan and coquettishly dropping her eyelids, was describing how she used to dance in Petersburg (her lips were pursed up like a rosebud, and she pronounced "at home in Pütürsburg").
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Hear all of you, ministers of the gods and sanctifiers of offerings, the fulfilling of praises on this seventeenth day of the sixth moon of this year, as the morning sun goes up in glory, of the Oho-Nakatomi, who—having abundantly piled up like a range of hills the TRIBUTE thread and sanctified LIQUOR and FOOD presented as of usage by the people of the deity's houses attributed to her in the three departments and in various countries and places, so that she deign to bless his [the Mikado's] LIFE as a long LIFE, and his AGE as a luxuriant AGE eternally and unchangingly as multitudinous piles of rock; may deign to bless the CHILDREN who are born to him, and deigning to cause to flourish the five kinds of grain which the men of a hundred functions and the peasants of the countries in the four quarters of the region under heaven long and peacefully cultivate and {49} eat, and guarding and benefiting them to deign to bless them—is hidden by the great offering-wands.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

If not, then it must be rejected, and that not because of a disadvantage accruing from it to myself or even to others, but because it cannot enter as a principle into a possible universal legislation, and reason extorts from me immediate respect for such legislation.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

In the meantime, several vessels were coming down, outward bound; among which, a fine, large ship, with yards squared, fair wind and fair tide, passed us like a race-horse, the men running out upon her yards to rig out the studding-sail booms.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

v [AN2; b] steer a boat with a rudder, or with a paddle used like a rudder.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"For someone else to pick up later!" added Roger triumphantly.
— from On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Carey Rockwell

Papers, letters, fat numbers of Russian journals, for the most part uncut, lay at random on the dusty tables; white cigarette ends lay scattered in every direction.
— from Fathers and Children by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

"… The offerings are no longer piled up "like a range of hills," nor do they include all things dwelling in the mountains and in the sea; but the imposing ritual remains, and the ceremony is always impressive.
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

These were:—“Persons calling themselves scholars, going about begging; all idle persons going about in any country either begging or using any subtil craft or unlawful games or plays, or feigning knowledge in physionomy or palmestry; patent-gatherers; common players of interludes, other than players belonging to any Baron of the Realm; juglers, tinkers, pedlers, and petty chapmen; and generally all wandering persons using, loytering, and refusing to work for reasonable wages, or pretending to be Egyptians.
— from The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries: To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

My two ears was pricked up like a rabbit's."
— from Christopher and the Clockmakers by Sara Ware Bassett

He passed under lamplight, and Robert perceived him to be a gentleman in garb.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 by George Meredith