2 particle used in making a request or asking permission.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Note 13 ( return ) [ This sum is the result of a particular list, in a curious Ms. fragment of the year 550, found in the library of Milan.
— 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

One accomplished creature with learning radiating from every pore, delivered a charming little essay on the strong-minded women of antiquity; then, taking labor into the region of art, painted delightful pictures of the time when all would work harmoniously together in an Ideal Republic, where each did the task she liked, and was paid for it in liberty, equality, and fraternity.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And yet, repeat the word inwardly as often as she would, the attempt to reason out and prove that she was sure, always came after it and failed.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Hence it is in contradiction to the idea of the original contract without which no right over a people is thinkable.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

Colonel Wallis declined sitting down again, and Mr Elliot was invited by Elizabeth and Miss Carteret, in a manner not to be refused, to sit between them; and by some other removals, and a little scheming of her own, Anne was enabled to place herself much nearer the end of the bench than she had been before, much more within reach of a passer-by.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

It is not modesty, so much as cunning and prudence, that makes our ladies so circumspect to refuse us admittance into their cabinets before they are painted and tricked up for the public view:— Nec Veneres nostras hoc fallit; quo magis ips Omnia summopere hos vit postscenia celant, Quos retinere volunt, adstrictoque esse in amore: “Of this our ladies are full well aware, Which make them, with such privacy and care, Behind the scene all those defects remove, Likely to check the flame of those they love,” whereas, in several animals there is nothing that we do not love, and that does not please our senses; so that from their very excrements we do not only extract wherewith to heighten our sauces, but also our richest ornaments and perfumes.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Lovers of Japanese art must be familiar with the representation of a priest riding backwards on a cow.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

In the room of a prince not conspicuous for any superior powers of the mind or body, they acquired his bastard brother, the terrible Genseric; 13 a name, which, in the destruction of the Roman empire, has deserved an equal rank with the names of Alaric and Attila.
— 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

58 of this edition, is substantially a reprint of a paper by Professor Sidgwick under that heading which appeared in Mind , vol.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Wouldn't some of your girls like to run over, and practice on it now and then, just to keep it in tune, you know, ma'am?" Beth took a step forward, and pressed her hands tightly together to keep from clapping them, for this was an irresistible temptation, and the thought of practicing on that splendid instrument quite took her breath away.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

No doubt there were germs in the early Iranian religion of a priestly system.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies

Mr. B. finally proposed to them that he would get the Moravian minister, Rev. Mr. Harvey, to ride out and preach to them on the appointed evening.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Yet no government, Great Britain least of all, wishes to be placed in the position of moving its diplomats about at the request of another Power.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

In March, 1586, Lane ascended the Roanoke River, hoping to find rich ores and pearls in the upper country; for the deceitful savages, wishing to divide the white men's forces, had told him that the stream had its source near the western ocean, in a country abounding with these articles, and encouraged his expedition with promises of assistance.
— from The Colonies, 1492-1750 by Reuben Gold Thwaites

He had become well settled where he was, and had just gotten rid of a persistent siege of kid-pessimism—of which he was now very much ashamed—and was just beginning to realize what a big, beautiful, real thing friendship was, and now—Jack and Timber and Billy and Red, where would they all be in three days' time?
— from Princeton Stories by Jesse Lynch Williams

If the large vision that takes in past and future only brings sorrow, it would have been better for us to have retained the limited range of animal perceptions.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

No; these odious massacres were not the result of a popular movement, an unforeseen fanaticism, a paroxysm of rage or vengeance.
— from Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand