Hallowell perceived, by the overstrained civility of the officers who came off to him, and the compliments which they paid to the English nation, that they were sensible of their own weakness and their inability to offer any effectual resistance; but the French know, that while they are in a condition to serve their government, they can rely upon it for every possible exertion in their support; and this reliance gives them hope and confidence to the last.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Mr. Lowten disappeared with a grin, and immediately returned ushering in the firm, in due form of precedence—Dodson first, and Fogg afterwards.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Abunúhi ang karsáda hangtud matúpi sa daplin, Put fill in the road until it is flush with the edge.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Then the certitude of his ultimate success rose up in him, an able ally of hunger, and with a quick movement he slipped the coin into his pocket.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Note 79 ( return ) [ Urgentibus is the common reading; but good sense, Lipsius, and some Mss.
— 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

malabutang n k.o. rattan used in construction.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For just as we charge with want of taste the man who is indifferent when passing judgement upon an object of nature that we regard as beautiful; so we say of him who remains unmoved in the presence of that which we judge to be sublime, he has no feeling .
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Page 269 {269} The curious crest of Lingen, which is "Seven leeks root upwards issuing from a ducal coronet all proper," is worthy of especial mention.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

"After I am raised up I will go before you into Galilee."— Mark xiv.
— from Quiet Talks on John's Gospel by S. D. (Samuel Dickey) Gordon

If, therefore, it be assumed [Pg 32] that ammonia is the only source of the nitrogen of plants, it would follow, that as that substance cannot be produced by the direct union of its elements, the quantity of ammonia in the air could only remain undiminished in the event of the whole of the nitrogen of decaying plants returning into that form.
— from Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson

The principles of these are as invariable as the former, and are to be known and reasoned upon in the same manner, by an appeal to common sense deciding upon the common feelings of mankind.
— from Fifteen Discourses by Reynolds, Joshua, Sir

b , almost two complete coils of the filament have been rolled up inside the Frontonia by the rotary streaming endoplasm.
— from Ameboid movement by Asa A. (Asa Arthur) Schaeffer

Higher, and higher, and higher it rose, until it ran over and down the sides of the kettle.
— from Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers

The harsh tones of her voice actually grew mellow, and rising up in haste she almost sprang over the fence, and said, "I'se been looking for you, if you's Northman you's mighty welcome," and she set before him her humble store of provisions.
— from Minnie's Sacrifice by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

And when, upon the arrival of the King's Commission at Exeter, Mr. Prince received a very full and carefully-drawn brief in defense—a specious, but almost wholly unsupported story of the prisoner's appeared all that could be relied upon in rebuttal of the evidence for the crown.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

Again the mother stood on her hind legs to look, and while she was doing this one of the cubs rushed up in front of her and sprang into the air, grasping her around the chest and the mother closed her arms about it and put her head down.
— from Jack Among the Indians; Or, A Boy's Summer on the Buffalo Plains by George Bird Grinnell

Look at the way he’s rigged up,” interrupted Jimmy.
— from What Outfit, Buddy? by T. Howard (Thomas Howard) Kelly