alimpuyas n k.o. plant similar to luy-aluy-a, the rhizomes of which are used medicinally: Curcuma zedoaria .
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Good sooth, even thus; therefore ha’ done with words; To me she’s married, not unto my clothes.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I should be a sailor for life; and although I had made up my mind to it before I had my letters from home, and was, as I thought, quite satisfied; yet, as soon as an opportunity was held out to me of returning, and the prospect of another kind of life was opened to me, my anxiety to return, and, at least, to have the chance of deciding upon my course for myself, was beyond measure.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Faith is a mockery if it teaches us not that we may construct a world unspeakably more complete and beautiful than the material world.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

At one time, when I was in Boston, I called at the door of a rather wealthy lady, and was admitted to the vestibule and sent up my card.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

“Uxoris moechus coeperate esse suae” (Suet.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Besides, a convention had framed a State Constitution; nine men out of every ten wanted an office; I believed that these gentlemen would “treat” the moneyless and the irresponsible among the population into adopting the constitution and thus well-nigh killing the country (it could not well carry such a load as a State government, since it had nothing to tax that could stand a tax, for undeveloped mines could not, and there were not fifty developed ones in the land, there was but little realty to tax, and it did seem as if nobody was ever going to think of the simple salvation of inflicting a money penalty on murder).
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Good madam, make me blessed in your care In bringing up my child.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Having thus dedicated the land and ourselves to the Lord, one of the Elders spoke in tongues and uttered many comforting promises, and another interpreted.
— from My First Mission by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

So philosophers teach us; and such was certainly the case in the present instance; for the whim which led Silly John down the grand staircase of Danemore Castle, was by no means without its effect upon Henry Langford; and might, under many circumstances, have produced consequences of very great importance.
— from The Robber, A Tale. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

It is perhaps unnecessary to say that after this fire my inquiries were pursued with great vigilance, and that a careful watch was kept upon Mr. Keeling and upon Mr. Cross.
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester

" Elinor's heart, which had undergone many changes in the course of this extraordinary conversation, was now softened again;—yet she felt it her duty to check such ideas in her companion as the last.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

I wrote a poem, which answered the double purpose of gratifying my revenge for the ill-treatment I had received from the lord high treasurer, and of conciliating his good graces; for it had a double meaning all through: what he in his ignorance mistook for praise, was in fact satire; and as he thought that the high-sounding words in which it abounded (which, being mostly Arabic, he did not understand) must contain an eulogium, he did not in the least suspect that they were in fact expressions containing the grossest disrespect.
— from The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan by James Justinian Morier

And they relied upon my continued influence.
— from Ruggles of Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

But upon mature Consideration, I found a properer Reply could not be made to you, than is the foregoing Discourse; which, if you are not sick of your former Performance, will find you some more Work.
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

Butt Hinge. —J. W. Carleton (assignor to the Union Manufacturing Co.), New Britain, Conn.
— from Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

After a brief conference they seemed to come to the conclusion that two unarmed men could not thus approach them, announcing their coming, with any hostile intent.
— from The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

As a mere experiment I had twenty-two acres of flax sown on the 17th of June, on some land about three miles from Corvallis which unexpectedly came under my control.
— from Two Years in Oregon by Wallis Nash