: rode-tre , the cross, S2; rude evyn , eve of the Rood (Sept. 13), B.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

If all this be true, how will Virtue be a whit more voluntary than Vice? Alike to the good man and the bad, the End gives its impression and is fixed by nature or howsoever you like to say, and they act so and so, referring everything else to this End.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

“Along the line the signal ran England expects as this present man Will keep Boffin to his duty.” —Boffin, I'll see you home.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Qué se recoge en el otoño?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Nay, this Humour of shortning our Language had once run so far, that some of our celebrated Authors, among whom we may reckon Sir Roger E Estrange in particular, began to prune their Words of all superfluous Letters, as they termed them, in order to adjust the Spelling to the Pronunciation; which would have confounded all our Etymologies, and have quite destroyed our Tongue.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

SYN: Dwell, stay, inhabit, continue, rest, tarry, lodge, reside, live, wait, sojourn, remain, expect, endure, tolerate, anticipate, confront, await, bear, face, watch.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Después de algunos días, unos pescadores, que habían echado sus redes en el río, cogieron entre las mallas los zapatos de Tamburí, pero los clavos de que estaba llena la suela destrozaron los hilos de las redes.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Note 68 ( return ) [ Piissimo Constantino magno, per ejus largitatem S. R. Ecclesia elevata et exaltata est, et potestatem in his Hesperiae partibus largiri olignatus est....
— 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

Pepe Rey aprovechó el momento en que las tres muchachas y D. Juan se regocijaban en el balcón, llamando a 25 Nicolasito Hernández con el apodo que tanto le hacía rabiar, y acercándose con toda cautela a uno de los costureros que en la sala había, colocó dentro de él media onza que le quedaba del juego.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Duda propuesta de si las cofradias deben contribuyr pro rata de sus rentas en el presente subsidio; y respuesta de un informante.”
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

'Tenian ó habia entre estas gentes unos sacerdotes que llamaban en su lengua "Piachas" muy espertos en el arte mágica, tanto que se revestia en ellos el Diabolo y hablaba por boca de ellos muchas falsedades, conque los tenia cautivos.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

HIS SUFFERING CONTEMPLATION DISTINGUISHED RECORD SERVICE SOUTH AMERICA BRITISH ISLES SPIRITUAL RADIANCE EVENING EARTHLY LIFE...” (“Bahá’í World”, Vol.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

Already were they descending the nearest of the undulating hills, and both now became conspicuous objects to all around; but principally the pursuer, whose gigantic frame and extraordinary speed riveted every eye, even while the interest of all was excited for the wretched fugitive alone.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy (Complete) by Major (John) Richardson

[ To a party who sit round expiring embers .]
— from Faust; a Tragedy, Translated from the German of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some will bribe, beg, solicit, rise early, entreat, persist, without attaining the object of their suit; while another comes, and without knowing why or wherefore, finds himself invested with the place or office so many have sued for; and here it is that the common saying, ‘There is good luck as well as bad luck in suits,’ applies.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The men went on at a sharp run, each eager to get through.
— from Ned Garth; Or, Made Prisoner in Africa: A Tale of the Slave Trade by William Henry Giles Kingston

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— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon