When traveling through the Northwest some time ago, one of the present writers strolled up a village street after dinner and noticed a crowd listening to a "faker" speaking on a corner from a goods-box.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Note 341 ( return ) [ Augustus died at Nola, a city in Campania.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And after thousands and thousands and thousands of years, and after Hieroglyphics and Demotics, and Nilotics, and Cryptics, and Cufics, and Runics, and Dorics, and Ionics, and all sorts of other ricks and tricks (because the Woons, and the Neguses, and the Akhoonds, and the Repositories of Tradition would never leave a good thing alone when they saw it), the fine old easy, understandable Alphabet—A, B, C, D, E, and the rest of ‘em—got back into its proper shape again for all Best Beloveds to learn when they are old enough.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

2. 80: ‘A kind of cokes, which is, as the learned term [it], an ass, a puppy, a widgeon, a dolt, a noddy, a——.’ Cokes is the name of a foolish coxcomb in Bart.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Attynu, v. to pull, or draw back Attywallt, v. to regurgitate Athlygu, v. to glance over Athost, a. pungent, severe Athrai, n. a falling away Athrais, n. violence, force Athraw, n. a teacher, a master Athrawd, n. calumny Athrawedig, a. instructed Athrawiaeth, n. instruction Athrawiaethu, to indoctrinate, to instruct Athrawu, n. ontology, v. to instruct Athrawus, a. instructive Athrechu, v. to vanquish Athref, n. a domain, a mansion Athrefiad, n. domestication Athrefig, a. domestic, homely Athrefniad, n. regulation Athreiddio, v. to penetrate Athreigliad, n. revolution Athreio, v. to diminish Athrem, n. a glance, a look Athrig, n. a stay, a delay Athrin, n. a conflict Athrist, a. very sad, pensive Athrodi, v. to caluminate, to slander Athrodiad, n. caluminiating Athrofa, n. an academy Athroniaeth, n. philosophy Athru, a. very pitiful, or vile Athrugar, a. pitiful; vast Athrwch, n. a cut through Athrwm, a. very heavy Athrwst, n. a great noise Athrwydd, a. very fluent Athrylith, n. intuition; genius Athrylithgar, a. intuitive Athrywyn, n. happiness, pacification Athu, v. to go, to proceed Athyn, a. very tenacious Athywyll, a. tenebrous Athywys, v. to conduct Au, n. the liver: v. to go, to proceed Auad, n. affection of a liver Aul, n. dung, manure, soil Auon, a currency; a halfpenny, a scruple Aur, n. gold; a golden Aw, n. a fluid; a flowing Awch, n. edge; ardency Awchiad, n. acuteness Awchlym, a. sharp-edged Awchlymu, to sharpen, to point Awchu, v. to sharpen Awchus, a. keen; greedy Awd, n. season, opportunity Awdl, n. an ode; rhyme Awdurdod, n. authority Awdurdodi, v. authorize Awduriaeth, n. authorship Awdwl, Awdlau, n. opportunity Awdwr, n. an author Awel, n. a gale, a breeze, wind Awelaidd, a. like a soft gale Awelan, n. a gale, a breeze Awelog, a. breezy, windy Awelu, v. to blow a soft gale Awen, n. genious; fancy; taste Awenol, a. poetical Awenu, v. to smile; to simper Awenydd, n. a poet, a genius Awenyddiaeth, n. poetry Awenyddol, a. poetical Awg, n. keeness; eagerness Awgrym, n. a sign; a beckoning Awgrymu, v. to make signs Awl, n. primeval light; praise Awn, n. a flowing together of atoms, or particles Awr, n. an hour.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

There cannot, therefore, exist any canon for the speculative exercise of this faculty—for its speculative exercise is entirely dialectical; and, consequently, transcendental logic, in this respect, is merely a discipline, and not a canon.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

(He being a dealer and not a customer.)
— from The Law and Medical Men by R. Vashon (Robert Vashon) Rogers

Mrs. Foster had been washing nearly the whole day,—work that she was really not able to do, and which always so tired her out, that in the night following she could not sleep from excessive fatigue,—she had been washing nearly all day, and now, after cleaning up the floor, and putting the confused room into a little order, she sat down to finish some work promised by the next morning.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Already I could almost put my finger on some islands which I had never heard of at school, and Mauritius and Réunion were as definite as Nashawena and Cuttyhunk.
— from She Blows! And Sparm at That! by William John Hopkins

Also, in and about their grass-thatched bungalow under the lofty avocado trees, Michael would have found other pet—cats, and kittens, and pigs, donkeys and ponies, a pair of love-birds, and a mischievous monkey or two; but never a dog and never a cockatoo.
— from Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

No one could be cool and mother and divided and necessary and climatical and of origin and beneath that mean and be a sun.
— from Geography and Plays by Gertrude Stein

It has been a damp and nasty and changeable winter—one of the most horrid I ever experienced.
— from On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich

An adventure of hers in the North, for instance—when, panic-struck, she had fled to him by a midnight train, had sought him through the dales and over limestone mountains through a day and night, and cried herself to sleep, and been found by him in the dewy dawn and soothed by his masterful cool sense—wasn't this romantic?
— from Rest Harrow: A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Hewlett

P.P.S.—I am writing in duplicate to make a diary, and names are censored by me in letters home, but you can see them later.
— from Letters from France by Isaac Alexander Mack