Would you say to this crew, 'For my part I consider this vessel badly built, and I will let it be destroyed'?" "In such a case," added Edgar Quinet, "whoever is not on the side of the vessel is on the side of the pirates.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

A wooded valley between Ben-an and Benledi, the entrance to which is between Lochs Achray and Vennachar.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

“He is a very bad boy, and he will end in a jail, Sahib.”
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Should I to-morrow verily Be Bridegroom, and Honoria Bride?
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

v [B156] be a tennis player.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

v [B1256] become a provider or be played for a sucker.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

v [B256] be a hectare.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Marcius also, we are told by Dionysius, produced a quarrel between the Romans and the Volscians by bringing a false accusation against those Volscians who came to see the festival at Rome; and in this case the wickedness of his object increased his guilt, because he did not act from a desire of personal aggrandisement, or from political rivalry, as did Alkibiades, but merely yielding to what Dion calls the unprofitable passion of anger, he threw a large part of Italy into confusion, and in his rage against his native country destroyed many innocent cities.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

v [B] become an aspirant.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Fuller was a wooden vessel, Bath built, and coppered, not with the beautiful "red copper" we read about in Clark Russell, but with a composition resembling brass, tough, yellow, and antifouling; a less expensive sheathing than the pure copper, and, to my mind, every bit as good a color, the bright yellow, between the deep blue sea and the black hull, striking a pleasing line
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

He turned livid, and made a step forward; but his generous impulses restrained him, and it was in a voice broken by agitation that he said,— “Accept my apologies, M. Andre; I fear that I have played a part unworthy of you and of myself.
— from Caught in the Net by Emile Gaboriau

The last Duc d'Ossuna had, it is said, a very beautiful, but at the same time a passionate and jealous wife.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

She was very busy besides, and there were compensations, as she admitted to herself.
— from Clover by Susan Coolidge

The last Duc d’Ossuna had, it is said, a very beautiful, but at the same time a passionate and jealous wife.
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Complete by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

I have invariably resorted to the best and latest authorities, and have consulted almost innumerable volumes, both British and foreign, during its compilation.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The brave little creature would, we verily believe, bluff an elephant.
— from The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans by W. F. (William Francis) Waugh

Drinking vessels: Bowls, beakers and rhyta.
— from Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients by Charles Martyn

However that may be, international rivalry is plainly very bad business; and there are great possibilities in the Hague Tribunal, if, and only if, the signatories to the conference bind themselves to use force against a recalcitrant member.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge