There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Every sound was hushed, every voice was silent, on both sides reigned a deep religious and solemn silence.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Your countess is called Anastasie de Restaud, and she lives in the Rue du Helder.”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I have dwelt so long upon authors, that you will perhaps suspect I intend to enroll myself among the fraternity; but, if I were actually qualified for the profession, it is at best but a desperate resource against starving, as it affords no provision for old age and infirmity.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Here late, and to Sir W. Batten’s to speak upon some business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled I thought: he took me aside to tell me how being at my Lord Chancellor’s to-day, my Lord told him that there was a Great Seal passing for Sir W. Pen, through the impossibility of the Comptroller’s duty to be performed by one man; to be as it were joynt-comptroller with him, at which he is stark mad; and swears he will give up his place, and do rail at Sir W. Pen the cruellest; he I made shift to encourage as much as I could, but it pleased me heartily to hear him rail against him, so that I do see thoroughly that they are not like to be great friends, for he cries out against him for his house and yard and God knows what.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

ende m. ‘ end ,’ conclusion , Mt : boundary, border, limit , Ps ; Æ, AO, CP: quarter, direction : part, portion, division , AO: district, region , AO: species, kind, class : death .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Changing then his clothes, he rode a Naples courser, a Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

From MIZZLE , a drizzling rain; a Scotch mist.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

We took and lined her with dough, and set her in the coals, and loaded her up with rag rope, and put on a dough roof, and shut down the lid, and put hot embers on top, and stood off five foot, with the long handle, cool and comfortable, and in fifteen minutes she turned out a pie that was a satisfaction to look at.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

145 Aventurous, “adventurous,” dangerous, risky Averty, shrewd, prudent Avisè, skilful, II.
— from The Bruce by John Barbour

A dog rose and stretched himself elaborately, yawning the while.
— from The Forgotten Planet by Murray Leinster

Secondly, in a war where the sympathies of the whole population are enlisted, each fraction of the army thus divided may serve as a nucleus of assembly in each province; but in a purely methodical war, with regular armies, carried on according to the principles of the art, divergent retreats are simply absurd.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Left comparatively alone with Pilate—for the crowd would not risk the defilement of the Prætorium—Jesus still maintained a dignified reserve and silence, not even speaking to Pilate's question of surprise, "Answerest Thou nothing?"
— from Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St Luke by Henry Burton

It is little likely that such a despotic ruler as Sixtus V would escape criticism; he was constantly lampooned and held up to ridicule in the manner dear to the witty Romans, but full of danger even when it was done anonymously.
— from Italian Prisons St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition by Arthur Griffiths

Le Long, La Croix, and de Robiere and several others were nothing but children, and they were always in irrepressibly good spirits.
— from The Escaping Club by A. J. (Alfred John) Evans

[Pg 270] Angleford's was the suite which had been prepared for Drake, and he came out of the room which adjoined the one she used as a dressing room as she was going into it.
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

Chillingworth was a devoted Royalist, and saw service on the King's side in the Civil War.
— from The Quiver 12/1899 by Anonymous

So the next day they took some cakes and dried rice and set off; they were welcomed right warmly and pressed to stay the night.
— from Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas

Near the Berg there are two climates, one for “below” and one for “on top,” and it was quite reasonable and natural to rise, as they did, out of the placid spring morning on the flats into a first-class thunderstorm with high wind and driving rain as soon as they reached the exposed plateau.
— from The Outspan: Tales of South Africa by Percy Fitzpatrick