a pindar, pinner, one who impounds stray cattle, Cath., Bardsley; pyndare , Prompt.; pinder , ND; pynner , Manip., Bardsley; pinner , Bardsley.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above the rites of those two hierophants, sufficed to arrest the attention of three hundred minds, and made of that stage on which a soul was thus called into being one of the noblest altars on which a supernatural ceremony could be performed.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It was here agreed that I should keep myself up and out of sight for a few days, till such clothes could be procured for me as were fit for the character I was to appear in, of my mistress's companion, observing withal, that on the first impressions of my figure much might depend; and, as they rightly judged, the prospect of exchanging my country clothes for London finery, made the clause of confinement digest perfectly well with me.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

* Macro commands (like in a word processor) for navigating through an online service, searching, and to send complex commands by pressing one key.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

“All revolt closes the shops, depresses the funds, throws the Exchange into consternation, suspends commerce, clogs business, precipitates failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

His Vandal clergy were still more ignorant; and small confidence could be placed in the Africans who had conformed.
— 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

But, generally speaking, concentration can be practically effected by armies moving to the interior of the enemy's country from the territory they have to guard.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The Dangers of the Spanish Occupation. —Such conditions assured the success of the Spanish occupation, provided the small colony could be protected from outside attacks.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

If the kitchen is not directly under the eating-room, the sliding closet can be placed in the vicinity of one or both.
— from A Treatise on Domestic Economy; For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School by Catharine Esther Beecher

If even a suitable card could be played from the valley, and none were at the moment available on the Terrace, it would still be better to refrain from playing it, if an equally suitable card from the Terrace were likely shortly to be released.
— from Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games by Cadogan, Adelaide, Lady

The operation was postponed until a small cabin could be provided and the veiled beauty taken secretly to it.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

One night early in January, 1952, immediately west of the head of San Antonio Wash, the voices of six coyotes could be picked out separately from a chorus of coyote howls which came from several different directions in the wash.
— from Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California by Terry A. Vaughan

Enter COL. STARBOTTLE, C., carrying bouquet, preceded by SERVANT, bowing.
— from Two Men of Sandy Bar: A Drama by Bret Harte

May 25 *Fish Chowder Cucumber and Tomato Salad Cheese Croquettes Bakewell Pudding Coffee *Fish Chowder —1 white fish weighing 5 pounds, 4 cups potato dice, 1/2 cup onion dice, 1/2 cup salt pork dice, salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste, 4 cups hot water, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 4 tablespoons flour, 4 cups milk, and 10 buttered crackers.
— from The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

"Servi cameræ," coveted by petty rulers, 128 .
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

The silence conveyed to neither any sense of awkwardness; in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech; contiguity amounts to a tacit conversation where, otherwise than in cities, such contiguity can be put an end to on the merest inclination, and where not to put an end to it is intercourse in itself.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy