patay — so poor as not to have any food.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In one instance a considerable and characteristic section can be traced from extant fragments and notices: Salmoneus, son of Aeolus, had a daughter Tyro who bore to Poseidon two sons, Pelias and Neleus; the latter of these, king of Pylos, refused Heracles purification for the murder of Iphitus, whereupon Heracles attacked and sacked Pylos, killing amongst the other sons of Neleus Periclymenus, who had the power of changing himself into all manner of shapes.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

But in this descent of servitude, the first degree was merely titular, since it was filled by the sovereign of Transoxiana and Chorasan, who still paid a nominal allegiance to the caliph of Bagdad.
— 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

“Yes, is there a family free from sorrow now?” said Pierre, addressing Natásha.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"But I suppose princes are never spanked, more is the pity.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Died 287 B.C. Thrasea, P. Thrasea Pactus, a senator and Stoic philosopher, a noble and courageous man.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

There was no occasion for him now to interpolate extraneous matter; nay, his readers told him plainly that what they wanted of him was more Don Quixote and more Sancho Panza, and not novels, tales, or digressions.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

he thought; “she’s probably as nervous as a turkey.”
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The man who estimates himself lowly, and at the same time justly, is modest; but not Great-minded, since this latter quality implies greatness, just as beauty implies a large bodily conformation while small people are neat and well made but not beautiful.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

—No lo digo sólo por eso, sino porque estos garrapatos no 05 se parecen a ninguno de los que he visto hacer a gente cristiana.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Mr. Bernard Shaw put a new wrinkle in the stiffened parchment of Caesar's biography.
— from The Critical Game by John Albert Macy

[Footnote 28: Sessional Papers, Africa, No. I (1900), C. 33, p. 6.]
— from Neutral Rights and Obligations in the Anglo-Boer War by Robert Granville Campbell

She was not dressed to meet Mrs. Remington, she said, shuddering as for the first time she pronounced a name which the servants had frequently used, and which jarred on her ear, every time she heard it.
— from Aikenside by Mary Jane Holmes

A table set out with striking propriety and neatness was preferred to the richness of plate and the splendour of porcelain and lustres.
— from St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by William Godwin

He also sagaciously observed the artful manner in which obnoxious tenets are often maintained or insinuated, with all that mixture of zeal and address with which they are propagated in the world, even by those who had most solemnly professed to believe, and engaged to teach the contrary; and as he really apprehended that the glory of God and the salvation of souls were concerned, his piety and charity made him eager and strenuous in opposing what he judged to be errors of so pernicious a nature.
— from The Life of Col. James Gardiner Who Was Slain at the Battle of Prestonpans, September 21, 1745 by Philip Doddridge

Strength, and some practice are necessary, to wring large articles dry, and the appearance of the clothes will but poorly pay for the labor bestowed, if this part of the work is not well done.
— from The Young Housekeeper's Friend Revised and Enlarged by Mrs. (Mary Hooker) Cornelius

The rules of the ship are strict; the steerage passengers are not allowed in the cabin, and as little are the cabin passengers allowed in the steerage!
— from The wanderings and fortunes of some German emigrants by Friedrich Gerstäcker

On the Moorish coast sheltered ports are not numerous, and for the most part Cayman landed and shipped cargo from anchorages behind the sands and reefs.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

Lecturing, however, was not then so popular as now, and Jim appears to have profited little by the veteran general's discourse, for on the very next night he repeats his offence.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 88, April, 1875 by Various