A powerful variety so strongly curved as to resemble a small billhook was found in the Roman hospital at Baden ( Pl. IX, fig. 5 ).
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

Prince Vasíli said something to Lorrain in passing and went through the door on tiptoe.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

= KEY: Part \v.\, [See SEPARATE].
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

751 Pure votaress she shone with light Of fervent zeal and holy rite.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Expulsion is a power of nutrition, by which it expels all superfluous excrements, and relics of meat and drink, by the guts, bladder, pores; as by purging, vomiting, spitting, sweating, urine, hairs, nails, &c. Augmentation .]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ ————Vallis te proxima misit, Appenninigenæ qua prata virentia sylvæ Spoletana metunt armenta gregesque protervi. Monaldeschi (tom. xii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The deacon came in, and seeing Laevsky pale and gesticulating, addressing his strange speech to the portrait of Prince Vorontsov, stood still by the door as though petrified.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So they among themselves in pleasant veine Stood scoffing, highthn'd in thir thoughts beyond All doubt of Victorie, eternal might 630 To match with thir inventions they presum'd So easie, and of his Thunder made a scorn, And all his Host derided, while they stood A while in trouble; but they stood not long, Rage prompted them at length, & found them arms Against such hellish mischief fit to oppose.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

This modification of animal forms took place very slowly, so that the historical period of three or four thousand years has hardly produced any perceptible change in a single species.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

Je fis mes premiers vers, sans savoir les ecrire.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Sing of my Trophees in triumphant strein, Then correspondent life, thy powerfull verse Shall strongly strike and with quick passion pierce.
— from Democritus Platonissans by Henry More

Balouf (popular), very strong , “spry.”
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

So they among themselves in pleasant veine Stood scoffing, highthn’d in thir thoughts beyond All doubt of Victorie, eternal might To match with thir inventions they presum’d So easie, and of his Thunder made a scorn,
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

As the hope of a speedy victory and an easy settlement vanished, wide differences of opinion appeared again in the North, and the lines on which this cleavage proceeded very soon showed themselves.
— from Abraham Lincoln by Charnwood, Godfrey Rathbone Benson, Baron

“I am plain Vera Seroff,” she replied, “and I, too, am a wanderer—what you call bird of passage.
— from Guilty Bonds by William Le Queux