pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c. (vanity) 880.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Swift's first notable work, The Battle of the Books , written at this time but not published, is a keen satire upon both parties in the controversy.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The Trochaic Monometer Acatalectic is sometimes used by Plautus as a clausula ( 2536 ) to Cretic tetrameters.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

From modest shame, she unconsciously became purple in the face, and not venturing to ask another question she continued adjusting his clothes.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

To this end coffee, roasted fresh as required by turning in an [Pg 665] iron cylinder over a fire of sticks and ground to the fineness of powder in a brass mill, is put into a small uncovered brass pot with a long handle.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

STATUMINATE, support vines by poles or stakes; used by Pliny (Gifford).
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Also to worship God, not as inanimating, or present in the place, or Image; but to the end to be put in mind of him, or of some works of his, in case the Place, or Image be dedicated, or set up by private authority, and not by the authority of them that are our Soveraign Pastors, is Idolatry.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

The earth does not withhold, it is generous enough, The truths of the earth continually wait, they are not so conceal'd either, They are calm, subtle, untransmissible by print, They are imbued through all things conveying themselves willingly, Conveying a sentiment and invitation, I utter and utter, I speak not, yet if you hear me not of what avail am I to you? To bear, to better, lacking these of what avail am I? (Accouche! accouchez!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

+ byrman to ferment, leaven : swell up, be proud .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

It enabled us to save you and to save us, by permitting the shipment, free of suspicion, of arms for the rebels that are to attack the city from within.
— from Webster—Man's Man by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

For now no longer were the dungeons of the cities filled with Protestants moaning for water, food, or air; no longer did Huguenot women offer their jailers the few miserable coins they had about them so that their babes might taste a drop of milk; no longer did men of the Reformed Faith offer their little bags of secreted livres and tournois to their warders, so that thereby they might be allowed to sleep one hour--only one little hour!--without disturbance; without horns being blown at their dungeon doors to awaken them, or blank charges fired from musketoons and fusils with a like intent; without their bodies being pricked and stirred up by point of lance or sword at the moment that a heartbroken slumber fell upon them.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

In the evening both caravels were scudding under bare poles, and when darkness fell, and the signal light of the "Pinta" gleamed farther and farther off, through the blinding spray, until at last it could be seen no more, when his panic-stricken crew gave themselves up to despair, as the winds howled louder and louder, and the seas burst over his frail vessel—then, indeed, without a single skilled navigator to advise or to aid him, Columbus must have felt himself alone with the tempest and the night.
— from The Life of Columbus by Helps, Arthur, Sir

An adult, sex unknown, but probably female, 16 feet long, found at Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1867, and recorded by Prof. L. Agassiz.
— from The Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae An Account of the Beaked Whales of the Family Ziphiidae in the Collection of the United States Museum... by Frederick W. (Frederick William) True

4. To set up between parents and their children an authority higher than the impulse of nature and the laws of God; which breaks up the authority of the father over his own [Pg 18] offspring, and, at pleasure, separates the mother at a returnless distance from her child; thus abrogating the clearest laws of nature; thus outraging all decency and justice, and degrading and oppressing thousands upon thousands of beings, created like themselves, in the image of the most high God!
— from Discussion on American Slavery by Robert J. (Robert Jefferson) Breckinridge

Nils Jensen, still under bond pending the decision of his case by the Supreme Court, answered the charge at once.
— from Mountain: A Novel by Clement Wood

The men who were off duty often made merry in their own quarters, and in dull times it is supposed that they essayed to keep their spirits up by pouring spirits down.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

This turn is then secured, usually by passing the long end through a slit in the short end and hauling this loop taut, sometimes by knotting the short end to the long part, or by catching the short end down under the next turn.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch