At the second Username: prompt, enter NEW if you don't already have an account on the service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Mr. Linton was not far behind; he opened the gate himself and sauntered slowly up, probably enjoying the lovely afternoon that breathed as soft as summer.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

There is no need to describe our men's condition, It shows up plainly enough.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Nos pusimos de acuerdo rápidamente sobre un punto esencial:
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They saw a young man leave the door of the pansitería , gaze all about him, then with some unknown person enter a carriage that waited at the curb.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

"But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up," (Ptolemy Euergetes was the issue of the same father as Berenice), "which shall come with a mighty army into the land of the king of the north, where he shall put all under subjection, and he shall also carry captive into Egypt their gods, their princes, their gold, their silver, and all their precious spoils," (if he had not been called into Egypt by domestic reasons, says Justin, he would have entirely stripped Seleucus); "and he shall continue several years when the king of the north can do nought against him.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

til I. good, apt, suitable, useful, profitable : excellent : brave : abounding .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“I gave myself up for lost, but presently a voice said: ‘Ungrateful Prince, even this fire is hardly enough to warm your cold heart!’
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The General told us, that when he was a very young man, I think only fifteen, serving under Prince Eugene of Savoy, he was sitting in a company at table with a Prince of Wirtemberg.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

SYN: Urgency, pressure, emergency, conjuncture, crisis.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

prosequimur opportuno; sane petitio pro parte Bidonis de Podio Guillermi, laici, Burdegalensis diocesis, nobis nuper exhibita, continebat quod ipse qui dudum cum nonnullis dampnatis societatibus per regnum Francie discurrentibus, qui de Pexariacho nuncupabantur, et de heresi fuerunt vehementer suspecte, per heresim hujusmodi quam secundum quod testes contra cum super hoc producti deposuerunt, confessus, extiterat ad perpetuum carcerem condempnatus et in eo ex tunc continue stetit, suam penitentiam humiliter faciendo, et vere penitens et a predicta heresi discedens ad gremium et unitatem sancte matris ecclesie redire desiderat quamplurimum et affectat; quodque illi qui eum propter hujusmodi heresim auctoritate apostolica condemnarunt, liberandi eum ab hujusmodi carceribus, quamvis sit contritus et redire velit, ut perfertur, nullam habent potestatem, quare pro parte dicti Bidonis nobis fuit humiliter supplicatum ut providere ei in premissis de benignitate apostolica dignaremur; nos, hujusmodi supplicationibus inclinati, discretioni tue prefatum Bidonem si in judicio conscientie tue tibi videatur, quod ad hoc ipsius Bidonis merita suffragantur, liberandi a predicto carcere et sibi alias penitentias salutares auctoritate apostolica imponendi, hujusmodi heresi per eum primitus abjurata, tibi tenore presentium concedimus facultatem.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

“We could not get married,” she continued, evidently suffering under painful emotion, “we could not unless you could swear there was African blood in your veins!
— from The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid

Look down beneath thy wave-worn bark, Lean over the side and see The leaden eye of the sidelong shark Upturnèd patiently, Ever waiting there for thee: Look down and see those shapeless forms, Which ever keep their dreamless sleep Far down within the gloomy deep, And only stir themselves in storms, Rising like islands from beneath, And snorting through the angry spray, As the frail vessel perisheth In the whirls of their unwieldy play; Look down!
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

" Christ Church people find these words set up poignant echoes of a day when they sat before Frank Nelson and heard the living Word of God.
— from Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati by Warren Crocker Herrick

He was not overbearing on the one hand, nor condescending on the other, being essentially a shy, unassuming person, easily silenced by any controversialist who uttered statements of sufficient emphasis.
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr

Smith usually picks 'em younger."
— from Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... by Randall Garrett