Served at the capture of Madeira in 1801.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

n 1 longitudinal spar which serves as the centerpiece or main member to which crosspieces are attached.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

By the repetition of such acts, the character of Mahomet must have been gradually stained; and the influence of such pernicious habits would be poorly compensated by the practice of the personal and social virtues which are necessary to maintain the reputation of a prophet among his sectaries and friends.
— 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

I spoke for fifteen or twenty minutes, and was surprised at the close of my address to receive the hearty congratulations of the Georgia committee and of the members of Congress who were present.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

pa- v 1 [A; c6] go, stay at the center or middle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Innkeeper, believing every word he said, and terrified at the prospect of being confronted with a wolf, got up hastily and started to run indoors; but the Thief caught him by the coat and tried to stop him, crying, "Stay, sir, stay, and take charge of my clothes, or else I shall never see them again."
— from Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop

He was afterwards minister from the United States at the court of Madrid.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

That they had sprung from obscurity, that they had acquired great wealth, that they exhibited it insolently, that they spent it extravagantly, that they raised the price of everything in their neighborhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs; that their liveries outshone those of dukes, that their coaches were finer than that of the Lord Mayor, that the examples of their large and ill-governed households corrupted half the servants in the country; that some of them, with all their magnificence, could not catch the tone of good society, but in spite of the stud and the crowd of menials, of the plate and the Dresden china, of the venison and the Burgundy, were still low men,—these were things which excited, both in the class from which they had sprung, and in that into which they attempted to force themselves, that bitter aversion which is the effect of mingled envy and contempt.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

We spoke, with some approach to cheerfulness, of Mr. Peggotty’s growing rich in a new country, and of the wonders he would describe in his letters.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But the terms of this secret and the conditions of my absolution are peculiar.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Every man was spellbound, as swaying, posturing, yielding, she went on, allure in her eyes, her voice-- I am the Woman Prakrît, The Keeper and Wanton of Sex, And the clash of my dancing feet Is a lure that ruins and wrecks.
— from A Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Webster Steel

* Armand de Chateaubriand, whom you have seen as the companion of my childhood, who appeared before you again in the Princes' Army with the deaf and dumb Libba, had remained in England.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England. volume 3 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe volume 3 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Placing it over the fire, she adds three cupfuls of milk and stirs for five minutes while it boils.
— from Cookery for Little Girls by Olive Hyde Foster

She shook her head and where another woman might have smiled at the compliment of Mary's interest, she merely turned her eyes upon the portrait as though she looked across the years at some one who had gone away.
— from The Green Bough by E. Temple (Ernest Temple) Thurston

After this it is spread on a board; the best pieces are picked out and separated; and those containing ore mixed with spar ( 194 ) or other substances, are placed separate, to be broken, and again picked.
— from Useful Knowledge: Volume 1. Minerals Or, a familiar account of the various productions of nature by William Bingley

The interest which the invalid Tom had created, had somewhat deadened the effect of Susan’s disappearance; and although that was as yet an unsolved secret, and the cause of much anxiety, still everyone, both in and out of the household, celebrated it as a day of rejoicing when Tom made his first re-appearance down stairs.
— from Caught in a Trap by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

Here, Jake," said she, as the old servant approached, "take charge of Master William's horse.
— from The Rector of St. Mark's by Mary Jane Holmes

He pursued his classical studies at the College of Montreal and in June, 1890, entered ecclesiastical orders.
— from Montreal from 1535 to 1914. Vol. 3. Biographical by William H. (William Henry) Atherton