to place beside; to have in readiness, provide, Ac. 23.24; to present, cause to be present, place a the disposal of, Mat. 26.53.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

He knows of my being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and yet it should seem by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

What is wished for just now is the accentuation of the unrest—of the fermentation which undoubtedly exists—” “Undoubtedly, undoubtedly,” broke in Mr Verloc in a deep deferential bass of an oratorical quality, so utterly different from the tone in which he had spoken before that his interlocutor remained profoundly surprised.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

He tells me that he is really persuaded that the design of the Duke of Buckingham is, by bringing the state into such a condition as, if the King do die without issue, it shall, upon his death, break into pieces again; and so put by the Duke of York, who they have disobliged, they know, to that degree, as to despair of his pardon.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And you know as well as I that he is rather prejudiced against what he calls 'these new-fangled notions of cutting and carving.'
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But he that is pleased at being reproached with his wrong-doing, and delights in those that censure him, as he never did in those that praised him, is unconscious that he is really perverted also by what seems to be rebuke.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

How different the case really was!—they had come upon a problem, and, while they thought they had solved it, they had in reality placed an obstacle in the way of its solution.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Sun said: “Master, say not so; remember the text of the Sacred Book, ‘So long as the heart is right Page 345 there is nothing to fear.’”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

He knows of my being in town, I am certain, from something she said herself; and yet it would seem, by her manner of talking, as if she wanted to persuade herself that he is really partial to Miss Darcy.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

[Pg 144] for William at a ferry on the Thames, which he was in the habit of crossing every Saturday on his way from Kensington to hunt in Richmond Park.
— from William the Third by H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill

Heilbron comes distinctly under the category of "one horse" towns, notwithstanding that it is connected by rail with important cities, and hopes in due course of time to have its railway prolonged to Bethlehem; but until that happy occasion Heilbron is vegetating.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

He's a fine old gentleman, even though he is rather peculiar."
— from The Rover Boys on Snowshoe Island; or, The Old Lumberman's Treasure Box by Edward Stratemeyer

Their method of smoking, like all the rest of their habits, is remarkably peculiar; for, after inhaling a few whiffs, the smoker invariably knocks out the half-consumed remnant on the 'chebache,' and, presently refilling, commences another pipe, and so on, two or three times in succession, rarely troubling himself about the ashes of the last, which the slightest current of air may carry unperceived to smoulder in the combustible flooring.
— from Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs by J. M. W. (Jacob Mortimer Wier) Silver

My mind, not yet in union with its thoughts, Seemed sad and solitary; o'er it swept A calmness like the soft sun-breeze that floats Above the wave, that light and languid leapt: Then high imaginations, restless, past Into being—various, vivid, vast— And thought, admixing with the mind's emotion, Assumed a depth and fervour of devotion, The semblance and the hope, if not the true Sole inspiration of poetic lore; Then truth, at times, like light, came struggling through,
— from Poems by William Anderson

He was entirely comfortable and enjoyed talking, and, as he liked to have me read to him, I read Paul Revere's Ride, finding that he could only follow simple narrative.
— from Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" by Arthur Jerome Eddy

For the most part the materials used are not injurious to health if reasonable precautions are taken and ordinary habits of cleanliness observed.
— from Wage Earning and Education by R. R. (Rufus Rolla) Lutz

"Of course that sort of thing has its rough points for the second man, but in this case I do not think they amount to much.
— from The House of Martha by Frank Richard Stockton

“Well, I suppose it is because I try to have influence,” rejoined Pedro, “that I manage to have plenty of friends and foes,—the last being sometimes unreasonably bitter.”
— from The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

When a man on a hot day looks at a running stream and "sees" the delicious coolness, it is not difficult to show that he is really performing an act of mental synthesis, or imaginative construction.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully