crismlīsing (ȳ 2 ) f. chrism-loosing, loosing of the chrismale, confirmation , Chr . crisp ( BH )
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

So with Mr. Fuller home to my house, where he dined with me, and he told my wife and me a great many stories of his adversities, since these troubles, in being forced to travel in the Catholic countries, &c. He shewed me his bills, but I had not money to pay him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The signs of antiquity are preserved in the local appellations, Fossato, the camp; Capraia, Caprea; Bastia, Busta Gallorum.
— 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

With the present stem in -i o | e- ( 836 ). capiō , take capere cēpī captus Compounds have i for a in the present system and e in the perfect participle: as, in-cipiō , in-cipere , in-cēpī , in-ceptus .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed "small hand."
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

We cannot doubt but that the hostile feelings toward the physician deserve the name of transference, since the situation which the treatment creates certainly could not give sufficient cause for their origin.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

(From his monument in Trinity Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral.)
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The common cash consists of brass coins of varying thicknesses, with a round, square, or triangular hole in the centre, as in our illustration.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Then follow the central compartments, called gebobo , one, two or three, according to the size of the canoe.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

These again divide into two great groups, whereof the one includes plants with simply uni-seminal cariopsides, the other, on the contrary, capsules containing a free seed— Grasses and Reed-grasses .
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

The coalition liberals who parted from their old leader in despair or disgust cannot be detached; the party which was so wantonly shattered cannot be reconstructed; and, while the opposition remains numerically small and impotent in all but voice, the strange bed-fellows of the coalition cling comfortably to what they have lest a worse fate overtake them.
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

The following notes may possibly be of some use to the student; they follow the lines of work arranged by the author for the evening classes of the University Tutorial College, classes considerably restricted as regards time, when compared with ordinary laboratory workers.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, the stars of Heaven fell unto the Earth, even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind: And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, &c. Note to line 324.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The host, who himself laid the table, viewed the camera case critically.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

Under these circumstances comparison could only be made between the numbers of deaths reported; which would indicate that, in proportion to the work done, the railroad operations of Massachusetts involved about twice and a half more cases of injury to life and limb than those of the French service.
— from Notes on Railroad Accidents by Charles Francis Adams

The Deputy Commissioner, Captain Eyre, believed that he could get the men, and at the instance of the General commanding, the Chief Commissioner consented to allow Captain Eyre to go with this large body of coolies if he could enlist them, and an officer was ordered up to Pakokku to take charge of the district and to set Captain Eyre free for this purpose.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

In the time when corpses could be arrested for debt a man died there and, owing to this custom, the family were able to get the corpse into the churchyard before the creditors could claim the body.
— from Reminiscences of Tottenham by Harriet Couchman

These coils carry currents proportional to the pressure and current respectively of the circuit under observation.
— from Hawkins Electrical Guide v. 08 (of 10) Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A progressive course of study for engineers, electricians, students and those desiring to acquire a working knowledge of electricity and its applications by N. (Nehemiah) Hawkins