It was a crushing memory, an exhausting vision of countless breakfast trays carried up and down innumerable stairs, of endless haggling over pence, of the endless drudgery of sweeping, dusting, cleaning, from basement to attics; while the impotent mother, staggering on swollen legs, cooked in a grimy kitchen, and poor Stevie, the unconscious presiding genius of all their toil, blacked the gentlemen’s boots in the scullery.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Ang mga táwung dilì idukádu mupislà lang sa bungbung ug manlúwà, Uneducated people go out and spit their saliva against the walls.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Isabel candidly believed that his lordship would, in the usual phrase, get over his disappointment.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

-ium , less often -um ; penātēs , gods of the household store .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

because, for Obry, adv. beneath, below Ocr, Ocraeth, n. usury; profit Ocredd, n. usuriousness Ocri, n. usury; profit, gain Ocriad, n. a dealing in usury Ocru, v. to practise usury Och, interj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

A definition is, as the term itself indicates, the representation, upon primary grounds, of the complete conception of a thing within its own limits.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

As it rolled away, Ugo proposed going on.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It lasted two days, and at the conclusion he was unanimously pronounced guilty of manslaughter.
— from The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt

"When we have crossed that hill we shall see the village a short distance ahead of us, picturesquely grouped on the side of another hill, and running into the plain, where the last houses are built on the banks of a pretty little stream, whose white and limpid waters serve as a natural rampart."
— from Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge by Gustave Aimard

They grow very fast, and, as the size increases, the under part gradually opens and shows a fringy fur (called "gills") of a delicate salmon color.
— from Canoe and Camp Cookery A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and Outers by Seneca (Writer on outdoor life)

Sir Robert then urged it upon public grounds only , but I said here I could not consent.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

A Japanese familiar with his airy and barn-like theatres, his public readings under an open tent-like structure, or gatherings in a room in which one or all sides may be open to the air even in mid-winter, would look upon the usual public gatherings of our people in lecture-halls, schoolrooms, and other closed apartments, wherein the air often becomes so foul that people faint and struggle to the door to get a breath of fresh air,—a Japanese, I say, would justly look upon such practices as filthy to the last degree.
— from Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings by Edward Sylvester Morse

For nearly a year, the U. P. general officers at Omaha have had five assistant general managers.
— from The Modern Railroad by Edward Hungerford

Henry Lee, for instance, was so foolish as to borrow five thousand dollars from this representative of a foreign and unfriendly power; Gardoqui, of course, lending the money under the impression that its receipt would bind Lee to the Spanish interest.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

Contempt of the square-jawed withered woman was too great for Clotilde to have a sensation of her driving jealousy until painful glimpses of the man made jealousy so sharp that she flew for refuge to contempt of the pair.
— from The Tragic Comedians: A Study in a Well-known Story — Complete by George Meredith

Male —Upper parts grayish olive-green; wings and tail dusky, margined with olive-green.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan