suluran n the reed in weaving, which has the purpose of slamming the weft threads tightly together, so called from the fact that the warp threads go through it.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

As at any instant these same advantages may be lost, their possessors are constantly on the alert, and make a point of showing that they still retain them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In May, 1903, I was sent to the province of Surigao to try some cases arising out of what has ever since been known in that out-of-the-way region as “the affair of March 23d” (1903).
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Moreover, for the sum of five hundred marks, he granted to the said mayor and commonalty, and their successors, in and through the borough and town of Southwark, and in all the parishes of St. Saviour, St. Olave, and St. George, and the parish of St. Thomas Hospital, now called the King’s hospital, and elsewhere, in the said town and borough of Southwark, and Kentish street, Bermondsey street, in the parish of Newington, all waifs and strays, treasure trove, all felons’ goods, etc., within the parishes and precinct aforesaid, etc.: the return of writs, processes, and warrants, etc.: together with a fair in the whole town for three days, to wit, the 7th, 8th, and 9th of September, yearly, with a court of pye powders.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Judson chuckled to himself and defied it, and the Improvers were trying to reconcile themselves to the prospect of seeing the prettiest part of the Newbridge road defaced by advertisements, when Anne rose quietly at the president’s call for reports of committees on the occasion of the next meeting of the Society, and announced that Mr. Judson Parker had instructed her to inform the Society that he was NOT going to rent his fences to the Patent Medicine Company.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Seeing his hesitation, Renardet made a movement for the purpose of seizing the letter and snatching it away from him.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is clear that our sensations, considered as irregular appearances of physical objects, share the causal dependence belonging to comparatively distant appearances; therefore in our sensational life we are in causal dependence upon physical laws.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

For forensic purposes, for all the established professions of society, this is sufficient.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Now, although the story had often been told, yet, as the crew of the cutter had been paid off since the animal had been brought on board, there was no man in the ship who could positively detail, from his own knowledge, the facts connected with his first appearance—there was only tradition, and to solve this question, to tradition they were obliged to repair.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

"When I leave Florence," said Irma, "I shall remember the Palazzo Vecchio more because it was the prison of Savonarola than for anything else."
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

While drilling through the shell, the egg should be held over water, so that if dropped it may not be broken; or an arrangement made of wire resembling a pair of scissors, the ends terminating in a ring or oval, may be used.
— from Taxidermy without a Teacher Comprising a Complete Manual of Instruction for Preparing and Preserving Birds, Animals and Fishes by Walter Porter Manton

Bembo was so rigorous with regard to purity of style, that he is said to have had forty different partitions, through which his writings, as he polished them by degrees, successively passed; nor did he publish them till they had sustained these forty examinations.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832 by Various

"I should think you would want to stay with your own sort of people—" But Dolly was too happy at finding the pair of strays to care what Gladys said to her.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Mountains; Or, Bessie King's Strange Adventure by Jane L. Stewart

All the people on shore turned out to see the wonder also; for a fisherman had carried the tidings, and every one was wild to behold the new island.
— from Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. by Louisa May Alcott

Plants of superior types throw off from themselves, whether by gamogenesis or agamogenesis, parts that are relatively small; and among superior animals there is no case in which the parent individuality is habitually lost in the production of new individuals.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

This was an open violation of the truce, and the Athenians, in great fury, immediately prepared to send a fleet against these audacious rebels, and passed a savage decree, condemning the whole adult male population of Scione to death.
— from Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides

Davydd ap Jefan ap Einion held out to the last; but when the garrison was on the point of starvation, the brave Welsh [Pg 188] captain listened to the dictates of humanity, and surrendered with honor.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar