Unnatural Exclamations, Curses, Vows, Blasphemies, a Defiance of Mankind, and an Outraging of the Gods, frequently pass upon the Audience for tow'ring Thoughts, and have accordingly met with infinite Applause.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

v [B1; a2] be, become rich, wealthy.† dátù 2 n title of a chief, now said only to Muslim leaders.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Whether such variability be taken advantage of by natural selection, and whether the variations be accumulated to a greater or lesser amount, thus causing a greater or lesser amount of modification in the varying species, depends on many complex contingencies,—on the variability being of a beneficial nature, on the power of intercrossing, on the rate of breeding, on the slowly changing physical conditions of the country, and more especially on the nature of the other inhabitants with which the varying species comes into competition.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Certainly most hazardous on our part, and indeed we were very soon visited by a terrible storm, which continued two days and two nights, in which the whole of us had nigh perished.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

“Oh, no, I’m not at all busy,” answered Varenka, but at that moment she had to leave her new friends because two little Russian girls, children of an invalid, ran up to her.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Up and to the office, where all the morning doing business, and at noon to the ‘Change and there very busy, and so home to dinner with my wife, to a good hog’s harslet, [Harslet or haslet, the entrails of an animal, especially of a hog, as the heart, liver, &c.] a piece of meat I love, but have not eat of I think these seven years, and after dinner abroad by coach set her at Mrs. Hunt’s
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

v [B; ab] get to be energetic, healthy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This alarm appears to have soon subsided; for, in the year 1455, King Henry VI., by advice of his council and parliament, granted four successive patents and commissions to several knights, citizens of London, chemists, monks, mass-priests, and others, to find out the philosopher’s stone and elixir, “to the great benefit,” said the patent, “of the realm, and the enabling of the king to pay all the debts of the crown in real gold and silver.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

It is found that water, or any other volatile liquid, thrown on a metallic plate heated to dull redness, is not resolved into vapour, but, assuming a somewhat globular form, remains intact, until the temperature becomes sufficiently lowered to allow of contact between the liquid and the heated surface.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

[Pg 196] HOTEL DES INVALIDES HOTEL DES INVALIDES The Hotel des Invalides is visited by a vast crowd of people, Parisians, provincials, and foreigners, for it is the final resting place of Napoleon the Great.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

THE POSITION OF SIR WALTER SCOTT ROBERT BROWNING By G.K. Chesterton CONTENTS CHAPTER I BROWNING IN EARLY LIFE CHAPTER II EARLY WORKS CHAPTER III BROWNING AND HIS MARRIAGE CHAPTER IV BROWNING IN ITALY CHAPTER V BROWNING IN LATER LIFE CHAPTER VI BROWNING AS A LITERARY ARTIST CHAPTER VII "THE RING AND THE BOOK" CHAPTER VIII THE PHILOSOPHY OF BROWNING INDEX THE NEW JERUSALEM By G. K. Chesterton CONTENTS PREFACE CHAPTER I. — THE WAY OF THE CITIES CHAPTER II.
— from Index of The Project Gutenberg Works of Gilbert K. Chesterton by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Suddenly, as he looked, the door, which opened out into the parlor, was banged back with a violent blow, and shut again.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

From the terrace they gaze down upon the grove of cherry and maple trees in the valley below, and then away over the grey roofs of Kyoto and the plain beyond, to Osaka, hidden in the morning mists, or to Arashiyama, whose groves will assuredly be visited in due time by these untiring holiday-makers.
— from The flowers and gardens of Japan by Florence Du Cane

I am nearly dead with fatigue,” replied the lady, looking very bright and very much alive for a moribund; “but we have had a delicious time.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

He looked upon the state of things at Constantinople as very bad, and attributed it to the disagreements between the French and English Ambassadors; while in order to promote the accord which he wished to see between England and Russia he desired that the best feeling should exist between the French and English Representatives at Constantinople.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron