n seamstress, dressmaker. -unun(←) n pieces of cloth to be made into s.t. tahirig (from hirig )
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In no time, and under no possibility of circumstances, could good have been derived from such an intimacy, however its bad consequences might be qualified by the thorough knowledge which Bucklaw possessed of his dependant's character, and the high contempt in which he held it.
— from The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott

Many, like Harpour and Cradock, made, of course, no sort of difference in their behaviour towards him, because they set up no pretence of condemnation; others, like Anthony and Franklin, had been nearly as bad as himself in the matter, and therefore their relations to him remained quite unaltered.
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

But conceding that this right attaches to these corporations, upon no principle of constitutional law or justice can the right to levy taxes upon private citizens to aid in the construction of railroads, either by acts of congress, by state statutes, or by local municipal government, be supported.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud

They were introduced—save now and then an isolated animal at an earlier day—into the United States some thirty-two or three years ago, about the same time with the short-horns; and like them, have been added to, and improved by frequent importations since; until now, probably our country will show some specimens equal in quality to their high general character in the land of their nativity.
— from Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings by Lewis Falley Allen

"Rodney," she implored him, "my son, my dear, dear boy, promise me that you will keep honest; that, under no pressure of circumstances, you will stray one hair's breadth from the path of honesty."
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

It must be allowed that, unfortunately, no physicist or chemist has been as lucky as these two botanists; and the attempts to reproduce semi-permeable walls completely answering to the definition, have never given but mediocre results.
— from The New Physics and Its Evolution by Lucien Poincaré

They were entirely uncivilized, having, probably, undergone no process of civilization, from the time of the migration of their ancestors to the Mississippi and the Atlantic slope.
— from Great Events in the History of North and South America by Charles A. (Charles Augustus) Goodrich

The uses name post oak, canoe birch, and lodge-pole pine.
— from Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers