Once, when two people were sitting above him at table at a banquet, and the one next him kept kicking the other with his foot, he himself kicked him with his knee; and when he turned round upon him for doing so, he said, “Why then do you think that your other neighbour is to be treated in this way by you?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

That they are the vanity of vanities, and vexation of spirit, that they are but a shadow, a blast, a bubble, and things of no continuance.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

now, at present Origyn, n. a short space Orlais, n. a time-piece, clock Orn, n. a start; push; threat Ornedigaeth, n. a threatening Ornedd, n. a threatening state Ornest, n. tilting, combat, duel Ornestfa, n. place of combat Ornestiad, n. a combating Ornestu, v. to combat, to duel Ornestwr, n. dueller Orni, v. to start, to threaten Oroï, v. to utter; to be uttering Oroïan, n. a jubilation; joy: v. to shout in triumph Os, conj, if Osai, n. sweet juice; cyder Osg, n. what tends out or from Osged, n. a laver, a bason Osgl, n. a branch; a twig Osglen, n. a branch; a twig Osgli, v. to branch; to shoot Osgliad, n. a branching out Osglod, n. a ramification Osglog, a. branchy, branching Osgo, n. obliquity, slope Osgoad, n. a starting aside Osgöedd, n. obliquity; starting Osgöi, v. to go aslant; to start Osgoilyd, a. apt to start aside Osgyd, n. a laver, a bason Osiad, n. a making an essay Osio, v. to offer to do, to essay Ostid, n. epithet for a shield Ostl, n. an open place; inn Ostr, n. what is spread Ostri, n. display, hospitality Oswydd, n. war-horses; cavalry Ow, n. a breathing out; a moan Pa, n. what is in continuity: a. what Pab, n. a father; a pope Pabaidd, a. papal; popish Pabell, n. tent; tabernacle Pabelliad, n. a fixing a tent Pabellu, v. to pitch a tent Pabi, n. the poppy Pabïol, a. papaverous Pabir, n. rushes; rush candles Pablaidd, a. active; nervous Pabledd, a. activity; vigour Pabliad, n. invigoration Pablu, v. to invigorate Pabwyr, n. rushes Pabwyra, v. to gather rushes Pabwyrog, a. full of rushes Pabwyren, n. a single rush Pabwyryn, n. a bullrush Pabydd, n. a papist Pabyddol, a. papistical Pabyddiaeth, n. popery Pâd, n. what keeps together; what contains Padell, n. pan Padellaid, n. a panful Padellan, Padellig, n. a little pan Padellu, v. to form a pan Padd, n. what keeps a course Pae, n. a constraint; a panting Paeled, n. a spread, a plaster; a scull-cap Paen, n. what spreads; peacock Paenes, n. a peahen; a fine girl Paent, n. paint; colour Paentiad, n. a painting Paentiedig, a. painted, coloured Paeol, n. a pail; a pot Paeth, n. concurrence Paff, n. a lump; a hulk Paffiad, n. lumping; thumping Paffio, v. to lump; to thump Pang, n. a convulsion; a pang Pangiad, n. a convulsing Pangol, a. convulsive Pangu, v. to convulse Paham, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

If a man cuts his throat he is at bay, and thinks of nothing but escape, no matter whither, provided he can shuffle off his present.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

His troops were levied in Europe and Asia, from Peloponnesus to the Black Sea; his majesty was displayed in the silver arms and rich trappings of the companies of Horse-guards; and the emperor was attended by a train of nobles and princes, some of whom, in rapid succession, had been clothed with the purple, and were indulged by the lenity of the times in a life of affluence and dignity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"How do we know," he continued, "how soon they may turn aginst their best friends, them who actuated by the loftiest and tenderest emotions, and determination to protect the weaker sect at any cost, took their valuable time to try to keep wimmen down where they ort to be, angels of the home , who knows but they may turn and throw stuns at the Capitol an' badger an' torment our noble lawmakers, a-tryin' to make 'em listen to their silly petitions for justice?" In conclusion, he entreated 'em to remember that the eye of the world wuz on 'em, expectin' 'em to be loyal to the badgered and woman endangered sect abroad, and try to suggest some way to stop them woman's disgraceful doin's.
— from Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley

Then the dog bounded out with a bark, and the old negro began to "holler," and the rebel's wife and daughter ran out and screamed, and an old negress also appeared, brandishing a broom, and adding her voice to the chorus.
— from The Drummer Boy by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge

At Bayeux are two others, not very beautiful in 177 themselves, but which group pleasingly with a central lantern of the Renaissance age.
— from A History of Architecture in All Countries, Volume 2, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

bi -ding 'neath sultry skies , Should think other eyes Were as bright as thine ?” “Oh, name it not ; though guilt and shame Were on thy name , I'd still be true ; But that heart of thine , should another share it, I could not bear it ;— What would I do?” III “What would you do, when, home re- turn -ing, With hopes high burn -ing, With wealth for you ,— If my bark , that bound -ed o'er foreign foam , Should be lost near home ,— Ah, what would you do?” “So them wert spar -d, I'd bless the mor -row,
— from Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

When therefore the horse is taken to a cold climate he requires in winter the defense of a blanket; and the ox needs under the same circumstances to be better housed than he ordinarily is.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

He had thought nothing could be quite as bad as the old name ... until this.
— from Mezzerow Loves Company by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

I must tell you that literature, seeing my cane, my chiselled buttons, has decided that I am the Benjamin of an old English woman, Lady Anelsy (I write the name badly), whom I met at Madame d'Abrantès, and [Pg 225] who has a box at the Opera, near mine (she separates me from Madame Delphine P...), and to whom I bow.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

The [Pg 107] Assembly hotly replied that they hoped that they would always be able to obtain needful laws from the goodness of their sovereign without going to the market for them to a subject.
— from Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce