In execution of the resolution which he had formed during his cooler moments, Prince John received Cedric and Athelstane with distinguished courtesy, and expressed his disappointment, without resentment, when the indisposition of Rowena was alleged by the former as a reason for her not attending upon his gracious summons.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

There was never a Claimant that couldn't get a hearing, nor one that couldn't accumulate a rapturous following, no matter how flimsy and apparently unauthentic his claim might be.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

With this view, it would seem prudent to organize an army in four parts,—two wings, a center, and a reserve.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Epps, Alonson Pierce, Henry Toler, and Addison Roberts, were the white men, selected to accompany, and take charge of the drove.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The human ear discriminates sounds with ease; what it hears is so diversified that its elements can be massed without being confused, or can form a sequence having a character of its own, to be appreciated and remembered.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

before, against; from Rhagachub, v. to get foremost Rhagadail, n. an out-building Rhagadrodd, n. a preface Rhagaddasu, v. to fit before hand Rhagaddewid, n. a previous promise Rhagaddfed, a. precocious Rhagafael, n. previous hold Rhagagori, v. to open before Rhagagweddu, v. to perform Rhagangen, n. prior necessity Rhagair, n. a leading word Rhagalw, v. to call beforehand Rhagamcan, n. a prenotion Rhagammheu, v. to doubt before hand Rhagammod, n. previous agreement Rhagamnaid, n. previous signal Rhagamser, n. previous time Rhaganfon, v. to send before Rhagansawdd, n. prior quality Rhagaraeth, n. prolegamena Rhagarawd, n. exordium Rhagarchwaeth, n. foretaste Rhagarfaeth, n. predestination Rhagarfaethu, v. to predestinate, to predispose Rhagarfog, a. forearmed Rhagarganfod, v. to foresee Rhagargoel, n. a foretoken Rhagarian, n. earnest money Rhagarlwy, n. prepared food Rhagarnawdd, n. a plough tail Rhagarswyd, n. previous dread Rhagarwain, v. to lead before Rhagarwedd, n. predisposition Rhagarwydd, n. a prognostic Rhagattal, n. a with holding Rhagateb, n. a prior answer Rhagawd, n. a going before; a going against; opposition v. to go before; to stop Rhagawdl, n. a leading rhyme Rhagawl, a. opposite, opposing Rhagbarodi, Rhagbarotöi, v. to prepare before Rhagbenaeth, n. vicegerent Rhagbennodi, v. to predetermine Rhagborth, n. outer gat Rhagbrofi, v. to foretaste Rhagbryder, n. precaution Rhagbrynu, v. to forestal Rhagbwyso, v. to weigh before Rhagchwaeth, n. a foretaste Rhagchware, n. a prelude Rhagchwedlu, v. to prologue Rhagchwegr, n. grandmother-in-law Rhagchwegrwm, n. grandfather-in-law Rhagchwilio, v. to search before Rhagdal, n. frontlet, frontstall: n. payment, beforehand Rhagdebygu, v. to presuppose Rhagdeimlo, v. to feel before hand Rhagder, n. advanced post Rhagderfynu, v. to predetermine Rhagdestun, preliminary theme Rhagdraethawd, n. prolegomena Rhagdrefnu, v. to preordain Rhagdy, n. an outhouse Rhagdyb, n. a preconceit Rhagdyn, n. fore-draught Rhagdyst, n. a prior witness Rhagddangos, v. to premonstrate Rhagddant, n. a fore-tooth Rhagddarbodi, v. to provide before Rhagddarlun, n. prefiguration Rhagddarmerthu, v. to prepare before Rhagddarn, n. a fore-piece Rhagddarparu, to furnish before Rhagddawn, n. a previous gift Rhagddeall, v. to understand before Rhagddelw, n. a prototype Rhagdderbyn, v. to receive before Rhagddewis, n. previous choice Rhagddiogelu, v. to secure beforehand Rhagddirnad, n. a pre-surmise Rhagddod, n. a prefix Rhagddodi, v. to prepose, to prefix Rhagddor, n. fore-door, wicket Rhagddrws, n. an outer door Rhagddryll, n. a fore piece Rhagddychymyg, n. presupposal Rhagddyddio, v. to antedate Rhagddyled, n. prior debt Rhagddywediad, n. gainsaying, contradiction Rhagedrych, v. to look before Rhagenw, n. a pronoun Rhagerchi, v. to pre-require Rhagetholi, v. to pre-elect Rhagfarn, n. a prejudice Rhagfed, a. foremost, anterior Rhagfeddiant, n. preoccupancy Rhagfeddyliad, n. precognition Rhagfeio, v. to blame before Rhagflaeniad, n. a preceding Rhagflas, n. a foretaste Rhagfod, n. prior existence Rhagfoddio, v. to please beforehand Rhagfoel, a. bald before Rhagfraint, n. a prerogative Rhagfur, n. a contramure Rhagfwriad, n. a forecasting Rhagfyfyrio, v. to premediate Rhagfyned, v. to go before Rhagfynegi, v. to prenunciate Rhagfyr, n. December, the last month of the year Rhagfyrâu, v. to foreshorten Rhaggaer, n. advance work Rhagganfod, v. to foresee Rhagglod, n. former fame Rhaggludo, v. to heap before or in front Rhagglywed, v. to hear before Rhaggymeriad, n. prolepsis Rhaghanfod, n. pre-existence Rhagholi, v. to examine before Rhaglafar, a. prclocutory Rhaglamu, v. to step before Rhaglaw, n. deputy; lieutenant Rhaglawn, n. first filling in Rhaglefain, v. to proclaim Rhaglewychu, v. to illumine Rhaglith, n. a prelection Rhagluniaeth, n. providence Rhagluniaethol, a. providential Rhaglunio, v. to perform; to provide Rhaglyd, n. forecast; providence Rhaglyw, n. a deputy governor Rhaglywiaeth, n. prefecture Rhagnodi, v. to mark before Rhagnoethi, v. to make bare before Rhagodfa, n. an ambuscade Rhagodi, v. to get before Rhagofal, n. a precaution Rhagofyn, v. to bespeak Rhagofwg, n. prospect; foresight Rhagor, n. superiority; difference; more Rhagorddwyn, a. excellent Rhagorfraint, n. prerogative Rhagori, v. to surpass Rhagoriad, n. a surpassing Rhagoriaeth, n. excellency; difference Rhagorol, a. superior, excellent Rhagoroldeb, n. excellence Rhagosod, v. to set before Rhagraith, n. deliberation Rhagred, n. a prior course Rhagrediad, n. forerunning Rhagreithio, n. to deliberate Rhagrith, n. hypocrisy Rhagrithio, v. to dissimulate Rhagrithiwr, n. a dissimulator, a hypocrite Rhagrithro, v. to rush forward Rhagrwymo, v. to bind before Rhagrwystro, v. to preclude Rhagrybuddiad, n. forewarning Rhagsail, n. prior foundation Rhagsain, n. a leading sound Rhagsefydlu, v. to pre-establish Rhagsylwi, v. to remark before hand Rhagsyllu, v. to look forward Rhagsynied, v. to premediate Rhagu, to get before; to oppose Rhagwahan, n. leading division; term in prosody Rhagwahannod, n. semicolon Rhagwas, n. deputy servant Rhagwedd, n. a presence Rhagweini, v. to serve before Rhagweled, v. to forsee Rhagwerthu, v. to sell previously Rhagwirio, to certify before Rhagwisg, n. a fore-garment Rhagwybod, v. to foreknow Rhagwyneb, a. forthcoming: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

In this Case therefore I would advise them, as a Gentleman did his Friend who was hunting about the whole Town after a rambling Fellow, If you follow him you will never find him, but if you plant your self at the Corner of any one Street, I'll engage it will not be long before you see him.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

My short sack and apron luck as good as new from the shop, and my pumpydoor as fresh as a rose, by the help of turtle-water—But this is all Greek and Latten to you, Molly—If we should come to Aberga’ny, you’ll be within a day’s ride of us; and then we shall see wan another, please God—If not, remember me in your prayers, as I shall do by you in mine; and take care of my kitten, and give my kind sarvice to Sall; and this is all at present, from your beloved friend and sarvent, W. JENKINS BATH, April 26.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

[A; a12] reach a certain number of points agreed to as the winning score in billiards or pool.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If you get up before the dew is off the plants,—it goes off very early,—you can sprinkle soot on the plant (soot is my panacea: if I can get the disease of a plant reduced to the necessity of soot, I am all right) and soot is unpleasant to the bug.
— from My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner

187 Tindal had clinched the case for “natural” theism as against revelationism; and the later deists, notably Morgan, had to some extent combined these results.
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

But I shall never feel poor again, after receiving such a precious gift as this!"
— from Mothering on Perilous by Lucy S. Furman

CHAPTER XXI—CAIRO TO SUEZ The “dromedary” of Egypt and Syria is not the two-humped animal described by that name in books of natural history, but is, in fact, of the same family as the camel, to which it stands in about the same relation as a racer to a cart-horse.
— from Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Alexander William Kinglake

"Will be added to the above sale, a negro-man, 40 years of age, who is a first-rate carpenter by trade, also a rough blacksmith.
— from Slavery and the Constitution by William I. (William Ingersoll) Bowditch

It praises me for assiduous attention at recitations, etc., etc.
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol. 1/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

So I leaned against a rock, resting heavily on my rifle, and strained my sleepy eyes toward the invisible Ouleout.
— from The Hidden Children by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

It is called 'surme,' and was also used at ancient Rome.
— from Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes by Ovid