paN- v be a lawyer by occupation.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Indeed, upon examination the coach was found to be in a dismal condition; for the weather proved very bad, and the rain had, though I know not how, made its way into the carriage.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

At each division administering a soft facer with one of the speckled fists. John having stooped down to receive these punishing visitations, Bella asked him, would it be necessary to move soon?
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

pákù v [B126; a12] be frustrated in one’s efforts to accomplish s.t.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Mas según públicas voces But according to public rumour estábais presos los dos.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

" The staid and puritanical young woman is much disturbed at the enthusiastic reception given President Van Buren at New Rochelle, and writes home: We had quite a noise last Fifth day on the occasion of Martin's passing through this village.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

5, 6, & 7 , was an old custom in all ages in every commonwealth, so as they be not enforced, bibere per violentiam , but as in that royal feast of [4309] Ahasuerus, which lasted 180 days, without compulsion they drank by order in golden vessels, when and what they would themselves.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Then King Oswy, according to the vow he had made to the Lord, returned thanks to God for the victory granted him, and gave his daughter Elfled, 438 who was scarce a year old, to be consecrated to Him in perpetual virginity; bestowing also twelve small estates of land, wherein the [pg 190] practice of earthly warfare should cease, and place and means should be afforded to devout and zealous monks to wage spiritual warfare, and pray for the eternal peace of his nation.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Frank, revelling in the blissful conjunction of every part of their naked bodies, clasped Laura round the neck and imprinted burning kisses upon her lovely lips, while his rampant steed plunged violently backwards and forwards in the abyss of pleasure and his charming buttocks bounded and quivered with the excess of wanton delight.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

Browne, Bishop of Cork, had been in danger of deprivation for preaching a sermon against the well-known toast to the memory of King William; Swift was threatened, as we see, a few years earlier, with personal violence by a Whig lord, and pelted by a Protestant rabble, for his supposed Jacobitism; his friend, Dr. Sheridan, lost his Munster living for having accidentally chosen as his text, on the anniversary of King George's coronation, "sufficient for the day is the evil thereof."
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Douglas Glynn , Albert Palk , Wilfrid Tavish , and Sigismund Shirley ( Actors at the Pandora ) Vincent Bland ( A Musical Composer, attached to the Pandora )
— from The 'Mind the Paint' Girl: A Comedy in Four Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

It is, in fact, always a principal verb; because, as we now apply it, it is always transitive.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

On the same day, July 14th, that the resignation took effect, it was officially announced that Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, who had hitherto been Minister of the Interior, was appointed to succeed Prince von Bülow as Imperial Chancellor.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

No European of that time was sufficiently versed in Kiche theology and history to compose in faultless Kiche such a work as the Popol Vuh , breathing as it does in every line an intimate and natural acquaintance with the antiquities of Guatemala.
— from An Introduction to Mythology by Lewis Spence

Page vi : "Being and actualization...
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

"Came back ,—then your mother is at home in Pleasant Valley?" "O, we're both at home here—I was so little when we came; but mother's father lived where Nick Boddington does, and owned all this valley—I don't mean Pleasant Valley, but all this hollow; a good large farm it was; and when he died he left mother a nice piece of it, with this old house."
— from Diana by Susan Warner

"Oh, father," said Colombaik, overpowered with sorrow, "woe is us, if Victoria's prediction is not to be verified, according to her prophetic visions, but across heaps of ruins and torrents of blood!"
— from The Pilgrim's Shell; Or, Fergan the Quarryman: A Tale from the Feudal Times by Eugène Sue

Its advocates were threatened with personal violence by angry mobs.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

Pytheas visits Britain and the Low Countries.
— from The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs