stef- = stæf-, staf- stefen = stefn I. stefn (æ) I. f. voice, sound , Æ, CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Kining sugilanúna ápas sumpay sa isturya sa bau ug ungguy, This story is a sequel to the story of the monkey and the turtle.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Think of Grace Stepney's satisfaction if she came in and found us lunching on cold mutton and tea!
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

So swiftly it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds— Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time.
— from Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters

Now, for a house, so situated in such a country, to have no piazza for the convenience of [pg 003] those who might desire to feast upon the view, and take their time and ease about it, seemed as much of an omission as if a picture-gallery should have no bench; for what but picture-galleries are the marble halls of these same limestone hills?—galleries hung, month after month anew, with pictures ever fading into pictures ever fresh.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

As my stuff settles into shape, I am told (and sometimes myself discover, uneasily, but feel all right about it in calmer moments)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And chid the painter for his wondrous skill; Saying, some shape in Sinon's was abus'd; So fair a form lodged not a mind so ill:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Respectful reports were made by the New York papers with the exception of the World, which said in a long and abusive article: Altogether the ablest, most dignified and best-balanced man in the body is Frederick Douglass, and there is a deep feeling for him for United States senator in spite of the drift of the convention, which is evidently in favor of Susan B. Anthony; notwithstanding which Elizabeth Cady Stanton is likewise a candidate with considerable strength, favoring as she does the Copperheads, the Democratic party and other dead and buried remains of alleged disloyalty.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

So saying, I stretched out my hand for his watch-chain, but he stepped back and drew his sword.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“No,” she said, “I spoke to him first about buying back father’s stock.”
— from Shadow Mountain by Dane Coolidge

On this consideration, let all questions of general speculation be dismissed from school exercises: especially questions of moral speculation, which usually furnish the thesis of a school-boy's essay: let us have no more themes on Justice—on Ambition—on Benevolence—on the Love of Fame, &c.: for all theses such as these, which treat moral qualities as pure abstractions, are stripped of their human interest: and few adults even could write endurably upon such subjects in such a shape; though many might have written very pleasingly and judiciously upon a moral case — i. e. on a moral question in concreto .
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

“Thus it was according to the regular order of God’s power that the sun should maintain its revolution and wonted course; but when Joshua in his need called on the Lord and commanded the sun that it should stand still, it stood still at Joshua’s word.
— from The Essence of Christianity Translated from the second German edition by Ludwig Feuerbach

It is more credible that the great “imperial dam” (Bend-i-Kaiser) at Sostra (Shuster) in Susiana, by which still at the present day the water of the Pasitigris is conveyed to the higher-lying regions, was built by these captives; as indeed the emperor Nero’s architects had helped to build the capital of Armenia, and generally in this domain the Occidentals always maintained their superiority.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 2 by Theodor Mommsen

Mr. Kinzie applied to an old chief who stood by, and who, like most of his tribe, possessed some skill in surgery, to extract a ball from the arm of the sufferer.
— from The Fort Dearborn Massacre Written in 1814 by Lieutenant Linai T. Helm, One of the Survivors, with Letters and Narratives of Contemporary Interest by Linai T. (Linai Taliaferro) Helm

We may hence conclude that when a sandy soil is stripped of wood, the local temperature will be raised.
— from Man and Nature; Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh