Gradually there came a sort of vague beginning of consciousness; then a sense of weariness that was dreadful.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

salimbángun n k.o. erect, branched, smooth shrub of waste places, the leaves of which have medicinal uses and are used for bathing babies, coming in two species or varieties: — nga pula a variety with maroon-tinged stems and leaves, and — nga putì a variety with green stems and leaves:
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was therefore important that we also should appeal to universal suffrage, should oppose vote to vote, should raise erect the Sovereign People before the usurping Prince, and should immediately convoke a new Assembly."
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

may be syllogistically arranged, and I find there are no less than sixteen such orders, viz., 12345, 21345, 23145, 23415, 23451, 32145, 32415, 32451, 34215, 34251, 34521, 43215, 43251, 43521, 45321, 54321.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

What sort of views can anyone have on such a subject?” “Turkish views, in general,” Veslovsky said, turning to Anna with a smile.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Their southern neighbors have felt, and perhaps exaggerated, the cruel depredations of the Scots and Picts; and a valiant tribe of Caledonia, the Attacotti, the enemies, and afterwards the soldiers, of Valentinian, are accused, by an eye-witness, of delighting in the taste of human flesh.
— 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

The anti-sacerdotal spirit of Vasishtha is especially revealed in a strange satirical hymn in which he ridicules the ceremonial Bráhmans under the guise of a panegyric on frogs.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The solemn funeral, the lamentations, and the mourning attire, which often characterise these rites, are indeed appropriate at the death of the beneficent spirit of vegetation.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

In fact, he has verified it over a very extended geographical area embracing the State of Victoria and New South Wales and even extending up to Queensland.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The carter ran under the wheels of his cart and thence threatened all sorts of vengeance.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Chimneys, walls and roofs stole in upon the great shapes with foreign, grosser details that obscured their harmony, confused their proportion, as with two sets of values.
— from The Bright Messenger by Algernon Blackwood

He cultivated the friendship of General Ira A. Allen, who was looked upon with disfavor in the State of Vermont.
— from No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real by Louis Raphael Nardini

He believed Frank would become overconfident through this early success; but he did not know Merriwell, whose observation and experience had long ago told him that overconfidence was the rock on which many a chap has stranded in sight of victory.
— from Frank Merriwell's Endurance; or, A Square Shooter by Burt L. Standish

A grand aggressive movement of Christianity against those strongholds of vice, disease, and misery, would end in a larger victory than in one of equal vigour against the obstinacy and self-satisfaction of the great body of the skilled artisans.
— from The Man with the Book; or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland

The State of Venice was the first to adopt the system, but before the end of the fifteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci had united the two chief canals of Milan by six such locks, having a fall of 17 braces.
— from Waterways and Water Transport in Different Countries With a description of the Panama, Suez, Manchester, Nicaraguan, and other canals. by J. Stephen (James Stephen) Jeans

And he told me there was a store of valuable articles in his room, which he had been accumulating for years, and that the old sea-chest alone contained enough to make me independent.
— from Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

This despairing song of Victor Escousse, stifled by the pride which had been implanted in him by a factitious triumph, was for a time the "Marseillaise" of the volunteers of art who were bent on inscribing their names on the martyrology of mediocrity.
— from Bohemians of the Latin Quarter by Henri Murger

"Store of victual ."— Ib. , verse 11.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown