dagundun 1 a 1 half-hard, half-soft, lumpy texture of raw bananas, sweet potatoes.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Miss Winchelsea awoke out of a happy reverie; she had been trying to realise, she said, that she was actually going to Rome, but she perceived at Helen's suggestion that she was hungry, and they lunched out of their baskets very cheerfully.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

This is in the hands—along the two thousand miles of river between St. Paul and New Orleans—-of two or three close corporations well fortified with capital; and by able and thoroughly business-like management and system, these make a sufficiency of money out of what is left of the once prodigious steamboating industry.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

This received maxim is a general apology for all writers who consecrate their labours to great men: but I could wish, at this time, that this address were exempted from the common pretence of all dedications; and that as I can distinguish your lordship even among the most deserving, so this offering might become remarkable by some particular instance of respect, which should assure your lordship that I am, with all due sense of your extreme worthiness and humanity, my lord, your lordship’s most obedient and most obliged humble servant, WILL.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

He did not come off so easily on account of the ‘Lettre sur les Aveugles’, in which there was nothing reprehensible, but some personal attacks with which Madam du Pre St. Maur, and M. de Raumur were displeased: for this he was confined in the dungeon of Vincennes.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the remarkable Babylonian seal, Plate iv., Fig.
— from Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism With an Essay on Baal Worship, on the Assyrian Sacred "Grove," and Other Allied Symbols by Thomas Inman

[ 9 ] The burden, for example, of seeing to it that the end of all our righteousness be some positive universal gain.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Far out in the roadstead lay the Roanoke, black smoke pouring from her stack.
— from The Spoilers by Rex Beach

The ignorance of the primitive church is explained by the long imprisonment of the image in a niche of the wall, from whence, after an oblivion of five hundred years, it was released by some prudent bishop, and seasonably presented to the devotion of the times.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

Very noticeable are the compound columns of this style, consisting of square piers with slender shafts coupled to them and supporting brackets, as at Chillambaram, Peroor, and Vellore; the richly banded square piers, the grotesques of rampant horses and monsters, and the endless labor bestowed upon minute carving and ornament in superposed bands.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

Indeed, had I known how well it would turn out I should have gone a step farther and rigged my saw to run by steam power—setting up a frame in the bows to hold a wheel carrying a pin on which the saw could play and to which I could make fast a bar from my piston-rod—and in that way saved myself from the longest bit of back-breaking work that ever I had to do.
— from In the Sargasso Sea A Novel by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

Hans made no reply, but silently proceeded to his bedroom window, through which I saw his gigantic figure disappear, and re-appear after the lapse of a few minutes.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Our distance run, British Standard puts her helm over and turns out.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone

By an old settlement, almost all the landed estates of the Baron went, after his death, to a distant relation; and it was supposed that Miss Bradwardine would remain but slenderly provided for, as the good gentleman's cash matters had been too long under the exclusive charge of Bailie Macwheeble to admit of any great expectations from his personal succession.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since — Volume 1 by Walter Scott

" "I will take all the responsibility, Basil," she pleaded.
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells