SYN: Eager, vehement, sharp, piercing, penetrating, acute, cutting, biting, severe, sarcastic, satirical, ardent, prompt, shrewd.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

hortâbor verêbor sequar partiar Perf.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Harry Smith, a halfbreed born about 1815, father of the late chief of the East Cherokee, informed the author that when a boy he had been told by an old woman a tradition of a race of very small people, perfectly white, who once came and lived for some time on the site of the ancient mound on the northern side of Hiwassee, at the mouth of Peachtree creek, a few miles above the present Murphy, North Carolina.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

clārē oculīs videō, sum pernīx pedibus, manibus mōbilis , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

11. sapientia et divitiae vix simul possideri possunt.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

—Pues esta mañana—indicó otro, que era un comerciante quebrado,—me dijeron en casa de las de Domínguez que ese señor no tiene una peseta, y viene a que su tía le mantenga y a ver si puede pescar a Rosarito.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Height of shell on which Venus stands Phi proportion with top and bottom of picture, the smaller quantity being below this time.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

When it was dropped into the pillar-box, the world became a very still, pale place, without confines.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“ Et, si vis similem pingere, pinge sonum , is enjoining an impossibility.
— from The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 by Samuel James Arnold

It was not very scientific practice perhaps.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

76 ANOTHER VERY SUPERIOR PUFF PASTE.
— from The Philadelphia Housewife; or, Family Receipt Book by Hodgson, Mary, active 1855

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— from The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical Poem by Iqbal, Muhammad, Sir

The thermometric observations were given to M. Arthur, who was also directed to ascertain the brilliancy of the protuberances and of the corona at the moment of totality, by a very simple photometric process.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

verse stanza poem poetry-container She liked to hear him, his voice so near at hand produced a sense of true devotion and security.
— from Veiled Women by Marmaduke William Pickthall

By various statutes, passed prior to the Constitution of 1846, the State had loaned its credit to a number of corporations, mostly railroad, until, in 1845, the State debt thus incurred, called the "contingent debt," amounted to $5,235,700.
— from A Century in the Comptroller's Office, State of New York, 1797 to 1897 by James A. (James Arthur) Roberts

You have but to look at the marbles commonly used about these islands, with angular fragments imbedded in the mass, and here and there a shell, the whole cemented together by water holding in solution carbonate of lime, and there see the very same phenomenon perpetuated to this day.
— from Town Geology by Charles Kingsley