Among other things, W. Simons told me how his uncle Scobel was on Saturday last called to the bar, for entering in the journal of the House, for the year 1653, these words: “This day his Excellence the Lord General Cromwell dissolved this House;” which words the Parliament voted a forgery, and demanded of him how they came to be entered.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

paN- v [A2] fish with a balantak.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

-an 1 local passive verb affix, future.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Prince Vasíli approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

paN- v [A2] for shoots, buds, leaves to sprout.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He had his hair cut on principle vunce a fortnight, and contracted for his clothes on the economic principle—three suits a year, and send back the old uns.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Amen and Amen TIMOTHY DEXTER P S—one thing further I happened not to think of that grate Creature which some fools Call the Goast and others say that he is wanted—But I thing that it will be of searvice to let the Thanttron Dye T DEXTER Scarting trouths fortey six years gone old french war to git men and Lads to List the prests told them thay would Live as Long as if thay staed at home for Every boulitt had its Commison from the Lord he directed them one time when old good mister Emmerson had A gurnemon to preach I heard him say for Addom sin there was Now in hell milons of milons of Children Not more than A [23] span Long all this is troue and when there was a A Drouth most over thay would Call A fast and pray very Annest for the bottels of heaven to be on Corked
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

paN- v [A] for rice sheaths to swell prior to blossoming.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

†pamínaw v [A2] for a treatment or medicine to give temporary relief.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

pátà v [A3] fall with a plop.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Though an unsparing satirist, probing vice and folly to the quick, he has compassion for human frailty and sorrow.
— from Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1 by George Daniel

And into this noisome sepulchre living men, women, and children went down to die; to pillow upon the rotten straw, the grave clothes vacated by preceding victims and festering with their fever.
— from A Journal of a Visit of Three Days to Skibbereen, and its Neighbourhood by Elihu Burritt

Their food was supplied from the corn planted and harvested by Robertson on his previous visit, and from the deer, buffalo, or wild turkey brought down by the unerring riflemen among them.
— from Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 by Various

, I will place a big bet on this round because it is a sure win. — ang payà v [a3] for s.o. who is usually morose to become unusually gay (lit.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I don’t know how long the banquet may have lasted, there was such profusion of pastrycooks’ viands and fruits and wines.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

He was shortly after appointed to preach in Florence; and his fervour and love for sinners produced very astonishing fruit, in moving many who had lived in sin to turn in sorrow to the cross, and renounce their evil ways.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

'At one time Trinidad must have been covered with one magnificent forest, presenting to passing vessels a far different appearance to that it now does, with its inhospitable and barren crags.
— from The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

Last night I went with two of them to the Praya Vermelha; and finding the officer of the guard at the gate of the fort, we asked leave to go in, which being granted, we entered, and walked about admiring the views.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

In regard to the state of parties, viewed apart from the merely personal element of leadership and following, there was not much, in the beginning of Mr. Adams’s administration, to distinguish its supporters from its opponents.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

_#_Budget: revenues $614 million; expenditures $957 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1988) _#_Exports: $75 million (f.o.b., 1988); commodities—coconut products 79%, mother-of-pearl 14%, vanilla, shark meat; partners—France 54%, US 17%, Japan 17% _#_Imports: $806 million (c.i.f., 1988); commodities—fuels, foodstuffs, equipment; partners—France 53%, US 11%, Australia 6%, NZ 5% _#_External debt: $NA _#_Industrial production: growth rate NA% _#_Electricity: 72,000 kW capacity; 265 million kWh produced, 1,390 kWh per capita (1990) _#_Industries: tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts _#_Agriculture: coconut and vanilla plantations; vegetables and fruit; poultry, beef, dairy products _#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-88), $3.95 billion _#_Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (plural—francs); 1 CFP franc (CFPF)
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency