2 [b(1)] work off a debt.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

On a previous night, trying to anchor off Gumasila in the Amphletts, we had been caught by a violent squall, which tore one of our sails, and forced us to run before the wind, on a dark night, in the pouring rain.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I think we ought all to share our pleasures with others, and do what we can to make each other happy, do not you?”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

When Gerda had warmed herself, and had eaten and drunk, the Lapland woman wrote a few words on a dried haberdine, begged Gerda to take care of them, put her on the Reindeer, bound her fast, and away sprang the animal.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

After half-an-hour’s sailing, the gondola stopped before the small entrance of the Fortress St. Andre, at the mouth of the Adriatic, on the very spot where the Bucentaur stands, when, on Ascension Day, the doge comes to espouse the sea.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Meantime, I am again in London, and again I pace the terraces of Oxford Street by night; and oftentimes, when I am oppressed by anxieties that demand all my philosophy and the comfort of thy presence to support, and yet remember that I am separated from thee by three hundred miles and the length of three dreary months, I look up the streets that run northwards from Oxford Street, upon moonlight nights, and recollect my youthful ejaculation of anguish; and remembering that thou art sitting alone in that same valley, and mistress of that very house to which my heart turned in its blindness nineteen years ago, I think that, though blind indeed, and scattered to the winds of late, the promptings of my heart may yet have had reference to a remoter time, and may be justified if read in another meaning; and if I could allow myself to descend again to the impotent wishes of childhood, I should again say to myself, as I look to the North, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove—” and with how just a confidence in thy good and gracious nature might I add the other half of my early ejaculation—“And that way I would fly for comfort!”
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

His passion was of a different nature, and the object of it effectually without his reach.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

McPherson was ordered at daylight to move on Clinton, ten miles from Jackson; Sherman was notified of my determination to capture Jackson and work from there westward.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The rain of winter is raw, without odour, and dismal.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

Whence it is written in the book called Ecclesiasticus, "All flesh waxeth old as doth a garment.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

In the case of the wife of a distinguished king it can scarcely be doubted that such an event would produce a profound sensation; and it is to this, we may presume, that the story in the first place owed its celebrity.
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Wavelets of acid danced across the surface, stirred by her voice.
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

This was often a difficult feat of engineering and a long job.
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

Brussels, 9 ; relation to Flanders, 12-13 ; more French [Pg 494] than Flemish, 13 ; weather at, 22-23 ; passage through, 24 ; 150 ; 170 ; 219 ; Hotel de Ville built by Philip the Good, 228 ; tapestry workers organised, 230 ; part of the “Adoration of the Lamb” in Museum, 238 ; 243 ; work of Van der Weyden at, 271 ; “Abdication of Charles V,” by Gallait at, 273 ; Stallaert’s “Death of Dido” at, 274 ; tapestry weavers of Arras driven to, 278 ; extorts privileges from Charles the Bold, 287 ; works by Memling at, 299 ; works by Dierick Bouts at, 308 ; “renowned for its noble men,” 321 ; 324 ; 339 ; Cathedral of Ste.
— from The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces by Edward Neville Vose

Then the floodgates of Mrs. Lawton's eloquence were opened, and Dorothy and John Lawton were caught in the swirl of eulogy and reminiscence until suddenly a heavy jar overhead and a rattling of mortar between the partitions was followed by a shrill cry of: "I've done it!
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

Then we operate and dispose, m’sieurs . Allons! ”
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll

Ethical science arranges the elements which poetry has created, and propounds schemes and proposes examples of civil and domestic life: nor is it for want of admirable doctrines that men hate, and despise, and censure, and deceive, and subjugate one another.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

But th’ year will come, sign of a Turkish bow, Five spindles yarn’d, and three pot-bottoms too, Wherein of a discourteous king the dock Shall pepper’d be under an hermit’s frock.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

These early colonists, unmindful of worldly gain, had the traditional hospitality of the Highland race to which they belonged, and the proverbial absence of class distinction which always obtains on a frontier: "No bolts had they to their doors Nor bars to their windows, But their houses were open as day
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

The contrast was of a different kind; the Celtic and the Hellenic invasion came into competition in Asia Minor, and to the distinction of nationality was added the spur of rival conquest.
— from The Provinces of the Roman Empire, from Caesar to Diocletian. v. 1 by Theodor Mommsen