â′tălĭ-gûlĭ′—“it climbs the mountain,” i. e., “mountain-climber”; the ginseng plant, Ginseng quinquefolium ; from â′tălĭ , mountain, and gûlĭ′ , “it climbs” (habitually); tsĭlăhĭ′ or tsĭlĭ′ , “I am climbing.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell-
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He wrote "Spiegel der Juden," in which he brings proofs from Moses and the prophets that Jesus is the Messiah, and gives information concerning the Jewish prayers, some of which he quotes in German, and also in reference to the "Shem Hamphorath," or ineffable name of God.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

[ 980 ] matampúhun a generous in contributing.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

We showed them necklaces of blue glass beads, small mirrors, and green imitation corals.
— 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

But at that moment a gentleman in civilian uniform
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

" You may be wise in your study in the morning, and gay in company at a tavern in the evening.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

I thanked her kindly for her generous offer, which, however, I had no occasion to accept, being determined to do nothing rashly: for though I could plainly perceive the person who attacked me to be a soldier, whose face I thought was familiar to me, I could not swear with a safe conscience to any particular man; and, granting I could, my prosecution of him would not much avail.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison to some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legislature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

If I say sooth, I must report they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks; So they Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe: Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds, Or memorize another Golgotha, I cannot tell:—
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

He lived by his wits, and managed to make a good income, considering the material on which he had to work.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

I paid fifteen hundred for this one myself, and got it cheap.
— from Philo Gubb, Correspondence-School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler

So that from the point of view of its close touch with heathendom, its tolerance for heathen customs, its Christian magnanimity and gentleness, its conscious art, and its learned tone, all historic and artistic analogy would lead us to place Beowulf in the great age—the age of Bede.
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

Were I not an object of God's mercy and goodness, I cannot have any conception what would be my feeling.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He was one of the most amiable of men, with thick whiskers all round his face and spectacles shining over his kindly eyes; a sturdy, thick-set personage, active in movement and genial in conversation.
— from Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

Within the month I met another group in conference.
— from The Girl in Her Teens by Margaret Slattery

The measurements are given in centimetres.)
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori