He was not very artistic in his taste, and thought but little of carving and gilding, soft carpets, and luxurious chairs; therefore the shabby parlour with Aunt Amy seemed far more beautiful than the very grandest apartment in Aunt Gregory's grand house.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

This time he brought, under his sheep-skin cloak, a little child, a little half-naked girl.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

onweald (a 1 , a 2 ) I. mfn. authority, power, rule, sway, command , AO, Lk ; CP: jurisdiction, territory , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

In 1825 she concealed, and lavished care on her great-uncle, Zambinella.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

SYN: Contract, agreement, league, covenant, alliance, negotiation, convention.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

IV The summer comes and life changes.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Hombre de elevadas ideas y de inmenso 25 amor a la ciencia, hallaba su más puro goce en la observación y estudio de los prodigios con que el genio del siglo sabe cooperar a la cultura y bienestar físico y perfeccionamiento moral del hombre.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

En espíritu que se consagra a la contemplación de la belleza
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

With a crowd of women about her, she can at least cause them annoyance, which is amusement of a kind; better still she avoids a tete-a-tete with the husband whom she never sees at any other time; then there are the tradespeople, the dealers in bric-a-brac, the fine gentlemen, the minor poets with their songs, their verses, and their pamphlets; how could you get them together but for the toilet.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

During the time I remained in the "Southern Cross," he never in any way, to the best of my recollection, interfered in the navigation or management of the vessel; but I came to know—almost at once—that his general planning of a voyage, knowledge of local courses and distances, the method by which it could be done most quickly and advantageously, and the time required to do it in, were thorough; and, in fact, I suppose, that almost without knowing it, in all this I was his pupil, and to the last felt the comfort of his advice or assistance, as, e.g., when looking out together from aloft he has seen shoal water more quickly than myself, or has decided whether certain doubtful appearances ahead were or were not sufficient to make us alter our course, &c.; and always speaking as no one who was what sailors call a landsman could have done.
— from Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

As she said this she came a little closer to me and 94 looked me in the face.
— from The Beautiful White Devil by Guy Boothby

"Whilst my childish tears were still flowing as the result of this sad ceremony, a lady came down the garden path in the moonlight, and as she joined us I noticed that although she appeared a little startled, she had a most beautiful face.
— from The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Raymond Paton

This would indeed be a revival of the dead, the restoring of art; and so much the more desirable, as such is the lurking scepticism mingled with our overstrained admiration of past excellence, that though we have the speeches of Burke, the portraits of Reynolds, the writings of Goldsmith, and the conversation of Johnson, to show what people could do at that period, and to confirm the universal testimony to the merits of Garrick; yet, as it was before our time, we have our misgivings, as if he was probably, after all, little better than a Bartlemy-fair actor, dressed out to play Macbeth in a scarlet coat and laced cocked-hat.
— from Winterslow: Essays and Characters Written There by William Hazlitt

On the evening following, the forearm was immersed in a bowl of hot permanganate solution containing a little caustic potash.
— from Some Constituents of the Poison Ivy Plant (Rhus Toxicodendron) by William Anderson Syme

From the Madeleine we found our way to the new church of S. Clothilde, a large cruciform church, and the last erected in Paris in the Gothic style.
— from Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages: Notes of Tours in the North of Italy by George Edmund Street

Put the stuffed peppers in a casserole dish with the glazed onion [ 171 ] hearts and the sauce, cover, and let cook for ten minutes; then arrange the stuffed tomatoes in the casserole, distribute among them ½ can of button mushrooms, halved, ½ can of flageolets or peas, and leave the cover off the dish, letting it cook for fifteen minutes very slowly.
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

It is reported that the Singrore Dhīmars who work on rivers and tanks must eat the flesh of a crocodile at their weddings, while the Sonjharas who wash the sands of rivers for gold should catch a live crocodile for the occasion of the wedding and afterwards put it back into the river.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell