Le arrancaremos su pasión, mejor dicho, su capricho, como se arranca una yerba tierna que aún
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Thus Stone Court continually saw one or other blood-relation alighting or departing, and Mary Garth had the unpleasant task of carrying their messages to Mr. Featherstone, who would see none of them, and sent her down with the still more unpleasant task of telling them so.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

SYN: Captivate, charm, subjugate, enthrall.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind[obs3]; circumcise; cut; incide|, incise; saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst; rend &c. rend asunder, rend in twain; wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch[obs3], crunch, craunch[obs3], chop; cut up, rip up; hack, hew, slash; whittle; haggle, hackle, discind|, lacerate, scamble[obs3], mangle, gash, hash, slice.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"It would seem," Chia Cheng suggested, "as if that must be a kite!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“And when shall you return?” “He did not say when.” Marius rose and said coldly:— “Cosette, shall you go?” Cosette turned toward him her beautiful eyes, all filled with anguish, and replied in a sort of bewilderment:— “Where?” “To England.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

What I remember best is the even, olive pallor of her complexion, and the intense blue-black gleams of her hair, flowing abundantly from under a small crimson cap she wore far back on her shapely head.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

“Well, I do think!” said Elfrida getting out of the embrace most promptly, “when it was me let him in, and you’d have screamed the house down, if I hadn’t stopped you——” “Stop chattering, child,” said Bet, drawing a distracted hand over her pretty forehead, “and let me set my wits to work how I may serve my King.”
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

In terms of certain representative filters (described in a subsequent chapter) color sensitiveness should be such that with the white light speed above specified the relative exposures through the filters shall not be greater than as follows: No filter
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

Store carrots, &c. Shelter from frost where it may be required.
— from Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Robert Kemp Philp

The schools called common schools are supported by an education rate, and in each State are under the administration of a general board of education, with local boards, elected by all who pay the rate.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird