[A2; c] 1 move the line from which one starts, shoots, puts, etc. in a game.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Sometimes Emile receives notes of invitation from his father or mother, his relations or friends; he is invited to a dinner, a walk, a boating expedition, to see some public entertainment.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

SYN: Sane, sound, intelligent, reasoning, reasonable, judicious, sober, sensible, probable, equitable, moderate, fair.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Then, for a moment, he and Arsène Lupin gazed at each other; and, if a person could have seen them at that moment, it would have been an interesting sight, and memorable as the first meeting of two remarkable men, so strange, so powerfully equipped, both of superior quality, and destined by fate, through their peculiar attributes, to hurl themselves one at the other like two equal forces that nature opposes, one against the other, in the realms of space.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

And now the astonishing and perturbing suspicion emerges that perhaps almost all that had passed for social science, political economy, politics, and ethics in the past may be brushed aside by future generations as mainly rationalizing.
— from The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform by James Harvey Robinson

Eastward and west these same smooth precipices extended, like a coastline until merged in distance.
— from The Empire Makers: A Romance of Adventure and War in South Africa by Hume Nesbit

The Irish monk Adamnan, who died A.D. 704, that is, almost a half century before our Beda, in his Life of St. Columba , says: "Quidam proselytus Brito homo sanctus, sancti Patricii episcopi discipulus," &c. ( AA.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

A spine is a sharp, slender, pointed eminence.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker

Here is a monthly magazine—of some sixteen pages, each measuring seven by ten inches—that in appearance alone would grace any newsstand, while its contents almost invariably bear out the attractiveness of its cover designs.
— from The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford