Depravity, Sin, Redemption, Heaven, Hell, and Damnation are preached twice a Sunday after the crops are laid by; and few indeed of the community have the hardihood to withstand conversion.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

Practically speaking, all reason, the whole heritage of intelligence, subtlety, and caution, the first condition of the priestly canon, is arbitrarily reduced, when it is too late, to a simple mechanical process: conformity with the law becomes a purpose in itself, it is the highest purpose; Life no longer contains any problems ;—the whole conception of the world is polluted by the notion of punishment ; —Life itself, owing to the fact that the priests life is upheld as the non plus ultra of perfection, is transformed into a denial and pollution of life;—the concept "God" represents an aversion to Life, and even a criticism and a contemning of it.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It takes no account of the kind of assimilation that takes place in primary groups where relations are direct and personal—in the tribe, for example, and in the family.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

2 [A; a12] do a physical examination.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I have here gone out of my narrative course in order that any who read this may form as correct an idea of a sailor's life and duty as possible.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

holy Llwysedd, n. purity; sanctitude Llwysiad, n. a purging, a hallowing Llwyso, v. to clear; to sanctify Llwysog, a. cleanly; hallowed Llwyth, n. what is borne, a load Llwythiad, n. a burdening, a loading Llwytho, v. to burden, to load Llwythog, a. burdened, loaded Llyad, n. a licking, a lic, a slap Llyarth, n. a gentle rise, a slope Llych, n. what is flat; a squat, a sculk Llychìad, n. a dusting, a powdering Llychiannu, v. to pulverise Llychiant, n. a powdering Llychineb, n. dustiness Llychio, v. to reduce to dust Llychiog, a. abounding with dust; powdery Llychlyd, a. dusty, full of dust Llychludo, v. to render dusty Llychlyn, n. a gulf; brooklime Llychol, a. squatting, cowering, sculking; flattening Llychu, v. to squat, to cower Llychwin, a. dusty; blotted Llychwino, v. to make or to become dusty; to become of a dusky hue Llychwr, n. what spreads along Llychwyr, n. decline of light; twilight Llychyn, n. particle of dust Llyd, n. breadth, extent Llydan, a. broad, wide, spacious Llydandroed, a. broad-footed Llydanddail, a. broad-leaved Llydanedd, n. broadness, width Llydaniad, n. a dilation Llydanu, v. to expand, to dilate Llydiad, n. an expanding Llydniad, n. a casting of young Llydnig, n. a small animal Llydnu, v. to bring forth, to foal Llydnyn, n. a little animal Llydu, v. to expand, to dilate Llydw, n. abundance, enjoyment Llydd, a. diffused, expanded Llyddad, n. a diffusing, a pouring Llyddo, v. to diffuse, to pour Lluest, n. a polypus Llyf, n. a stretch out; a licking Llyfan, n. a string, a rope Llyfandafod, n. tongue-tied Llyfaniad, n. a stringing Llyfanog, n. the liverwort Llyfantws, n. burst-cow fly Llyfanu, v. to string, to bind Llyfanwst, n. a disease in cattle Llyfas, n. a venture, an attempt Llyfasiad, n. aventuring, a daring, a presuming Llyfasol, a. venturesome, daring, presuming Llyfasu, v. to venture, to attempt Llyfeb, n. juration, swearing Llyfedig, a. being licked, or lapped Llyfeliad, n. a contriving; a levelling Llyfelu, v. to devise, to guess; to level Llyfen, n. the loin Llyfenol, a. relating to the loin Llyferthiad, n. a fatiguing Llyferthiant, n. defatigation Llyferthin, a. exhausted, wearied Llyferthol, a. wearisome Llyferthus, a. wearisome, tiring Llyfi, n. what is slimy; snivel Llyfiad, n. a licking Llyfio, v. to snivel Llyfiol, a. snivelling Llyfn, a. smooth, sleek, even, level Llyfnâd, n. a smoothing Llyfnâu, v. to smooth, to polish Llyfnder, n. smoothness Llyfniad, n. a making smooth Llyfnu, v. to smooth, to level: to harrow Llyfol, a. lambative, licking Llyfr, n. what drags, the heel of a drag, n. a book Llyfran, n. a pamphlet Llyfrâu, v. to render timid Llyfrder, n. cowardliness Llyfrgell, n. a library Llyfrith, a. eruptive, pimpled Llyfrithen, n. a pimple; a stye Llyfrithiad, n. an eruption Llyfritho, to break out as a rash Llyfrithiol, a. eruptive Llyfrol, a. relating to books Llyfrothen, n. a gudgeon Llyfru, v. to book Llyfrwerthydd, n. bookseller Llyfrwr, n. a bookman, a booker, a librarian Llyfryn, n. a little book Llyfu, v. to lick with the tongue Llyffant, n. frog.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

He seated himself at a distance and pretended to be reading; why did he pretend that?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I here except heiresses, who, being anomalies, deserve a particular paragraph for themselves.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

It is scarcely a self-evident or sufficient argument, to some hearers, even to prove that the English are as delicate and philanthropic as Sherman, still less that the Irish are as criminal and lawless as Lee.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"It looks very dark," said she; still she went in with him through the stove and through the pipe, where it was as dark as pitch.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I was still ‘Henri,’ but the tu was lost for ever.—‘I do not think so,’ I replied, assuming the manner of a friend; ‘but be as devout as possible, reconcile yourself to God, for the Duke waits for proofs; he hesitates, you must bring him to the point.’
— from Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac

To tell you the truth, if I were already set up in [Pg 21] life, and had as definite a position as you have,—family, friends, influence, and means,—why, perhaps I might afford to cultivate this style of thing.
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There remained the house by the river to investigate, and there remained hours and days, and possibly weeks, of close watching, that might reveal some tiny clue, and for that Coryndon was determined to wait and watch until it lay in the hollow of his palm.
— from The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery by Marjorie Douie

Nathaniel Parkhurst, who, when in the Fleet for debtors, murdered a fellow prisoner, demolished a roast fowl at breakfast on the morning of his execution, and drank a pint of liquor with it.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 1 From the twelfth to the eighteenth century by Arthur Griffiths

Preliminary Maps B , C , and D , at pages 244, 246, and 207, respectively, partly give the results of the work which filled in this area.
— from A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

A violent headache or a burning fever drives a man almost to distraction, and destroys any pleasure he might otherwise experience.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

Almost adjacent to St. Paul's, that is, in Queen's Head Passage, which leads from Paternoster Row into Newgate Street, once stood the famous Dolly's Chop House, the resort of Fielding, and Defoe, and Swift, and Dryden, and Pope and many other sons of genius.
— from Inns and Taverns of Old London by Henry C. (Henry Charles) Shelley