istupádu n 1 k.o. dish made of thinly sliced meat stewed and served with gravy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

'He and I have been always very gracious; the first time I met him was one evening at Strahan's, when he had just had an unlucky altercation with Adam Smith, to whom he had been so rough, that Strahan, after Smith was gone, had remonstrated with him, and told him that I was coming soon, and that he was uneasy to think that he might behave in the same manner to me.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The English, repulsed foot by foot, beaten in all encounters, and defeated in the passage of the Isle of Loie, were obliged to re-embark, leaving on the field of battle two thousand men, among whom were five colonels, three lieutenant colonels, two hundred and fifty captains, twenty gentlemen of rank, four pieces of cannon, and sixty flags, which were taken to Paris by Claude de St. Simon, and suspended with great pomp in the arches of Notre Dame.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

O dear madam, Mr. Mirabell is such a sweet winning gentleman.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Then there was a scream and she was gone.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

The carved work on each side of the stem and stern was gilded.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Mrs. Sparsit gave him a look of the darkest scorn, and said with great politeness, ‘Really, sir?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Here I was put into a well-littered stall, and some warm gruel was brought to me, which I drank thankfully.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

I myself saw, when he caught the bodies of two of us with his great hand, and lying back in the middle of the cave crushed them on the rock, and the courts splashed and swam with gore; I saw when he champed the flesh adrip with dark clots of blood, and the warm limbs quivered under his teeth.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The Thunder’s muttered growl my reverie broke, And looking toward the West, I saw a storm, With gloomy wrath, had thrown its dark-blue line Of breastworks, quiv’ring with each grand discharge Of its own ordnance, o’er th’ horizon’s verge.
— from The Angel in the Cloud by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

The girl stalked off with a sullen look, but stopped all at once, to exclaim: "Well, then, be quick over your talk!" As soon as she was gone, Madame Deberle returned to the charge.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

And since he applied himself to it with all the earnestness that was in him, it proved that he was afterwards able on any occasion to render an account of the attitudes, muscles, and movements of those figures, and of the reasons that had caused Buonarroti to depict certain difficult postures; in doing which he would speak slowly and sententiously, with great gravity, so that a company of able craftsmen gave him the name of Aristotile, which, moreover, sat upon him all the better because it appeared that according to an ancient portrait of that supreme philosopher and confidant of Nature, Bastiano much resembled him.
— from Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari

While the boudoir, the laboratory, and the sleeping-room of the lady, and the study and gallery appropriated to Voltaire, were furnished with Oriental luxury and splendour, and shone with gilding, drapery, pictures, and baubles, the lord of the mansion and the guests were destined to starve in half-furnished apartments, from which the wind and the rain were scarcely excluded.
— from The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

Each meeting of the Assembly might be addressed on the subject by some of its ablest men, in which case their statements and speeches would go forth, through the medium of the press, to the country at large.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

How much of the time spent at school was given up to lessons and how much to play, is not at all clear; but I am inclined to think that the playtime was at least as long as the worktime.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

As soon as she was gone, he pinched the baby till it cried.
— from Myths of the Iroquois. (1883 N 02 / 1880-1881 (pages 47-116)) by Erminnie A. (Erminnie Adele) Smith

Soon afterwards Sir William Gordon became seriously ill, and Charles Gordon hastened to the North, where he remained some time employed in cheering up his friend, who was suffering from hypochondria.
— from The Life of Gordon, Volume I by Demetrius Charles Boulger

'Well, it cannot harm you or her,' she went on after a pause, 'for me to tell you that the first thing Dolly did as soon as she was grown up was to make an impetuous marriage.'
— from In the Mountains by Elizabeth Von Arnim