All old Malay settlements are situated on the banks of rivers or streams, both on this account and because of the necessity of having a plentiful supply of water for the purpose of irrigating the rice-fields, which constitute the main source of livelihood for the inhabitants.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

grǣghama grey-coated ( of spear ? or wolf ?), Fin
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

True, some minds are natively endowed with a wonderful facility in remembering strings of words, facts, and figures, but such are rarely good reasoning minds; the normal person must belabor and force the memory to acquire in this artificial way.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

[AN; b] for liquids, usually urine, to stream out with force.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Suddenly it seemed as if he might be a sort of wood fairy who might be gone when she came into the garden again.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

At a festival at the court of Oljaitu, we are told, "Before the throne stood golden buffets … set out with full flagons and goblets."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He now took off his hat—a new beaver hat—when I came nigh singing out with fresh surprise.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

after Landing I detached Joseph Fields to Capt. Lewis to let him know where I was &c river rises a little this evening we could not get a Sufficency of wood for our use H2 anchor
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The road stretched through water-meadows traversed by little brooks, whose quivering surfaces were braided along their centres, and folded into creases at the sides; or, where the flow was more rapid, the stream was pied with spots of white froth, which rode on in undisturbed serenity.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

And slow sailing overhead were flights of birds; a wing in the air for every fin in the sea.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

It turned out to be one of Stuffy Wilson's hens, who lives just across the river, and I had to pay a dollar and a half, and she only weighed four pounds.
— from Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

The Duchy of Milan , which, by its Situation, lies convenient for many Sovereigns, has always prov’d a Source of Wars for Italy : You have read no doubt in several Histories, what Misfortunes this Duchy has entail’d upon the neighbouring Provinces, especially during the Reigns of Charles V. and Francis I. King of 167.png 164 France .
— from The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von

Instinctively I turned into the winding trail that once before had led me toward that mysterious mountain sacristy, over whose font fell the spiritual and dream-like rivulet whose baptismal virtues Taboo and I had sought together.
— from Summer Cruising in the South Seas by Charles Warren Stoddard

The roof of each of the houses hung over far beyond the gable end, thus diminishing the air and light; the windows were small, irregular, and loosely set, the panes of glass were tiny and dirty; the doors were low and narrow; the halls dark and begrimed with dirt; the staircases, which were gloomy, dirty, and slippery, had huge posts of stone or wood for rails; and there were absolutely no lights.
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

He was constantly making a kind of viceregal progress through the streets in a huge and madly dashing automobile, on both sides of which flaring German eagles were painted.
— from Ambassador Morgenthau's Story by Henry Morgenthau

The walls were composed of blocks of basalt, the general regularity of the vertical shafts broken here and there by gaping horizontal and diagonal fissures, while at intervals a thin stream of water fell from the roof with a cool and pleasing sound.
— from The Treasure of the "San Philipo" by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman