487 This remark is incorrect, as far as respects nearly the whole of Egypt; see the remarks of Marcus, in Ajasson, ii. 245.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Madame Beck esteemed me learned and blue; Miss Fanshawe, caustic, ironic, and cynical; Mr. Home, a model teacher, the essence of the sedate and discreet: somewhat conventional, perhaps, too strict, limited, and scrupulous, but still the pink and pattern of governess-correctness; whilst another person, Professor Paul Emanuel, to wit, never lost an opportunity of intimating his opinion that mine was rather a fiery and rash nature—adventurous, indocile, and audacious.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

As well might you look for good fruit and blossom on a rootless and sapless tree, as for charms that will endure in a feeble and relaxed nature.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

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

Evening now approached, (For we have also our evening and our morn, We ours for change delectable, not need;) Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn Desirous; all in circles as they stood, Tables are set, and on a sudden piled With Angels food, and rubied nectar flows In pearl, in diamond, and massy gold, Fruit of delicious vines, the growth of Heaven.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Mind you, I am in my seventies, and I tend my herd day in and day out, and keep the night watch, too, for twenty kopecks, and I don’t sleep, and I don’t feel the cold; my son is cleverer than I am, but put him in my place and he would ask for a raise next day, or would be going to the doctors.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 Desirous, all in Circles as they stood, Tables are set, and on a sudden pil'd With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold, Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heav'n.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

They have no importance and for American readers no interest at all. ...
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

All fierce, and ready now the prize to gain, Unhappy Ajax stumbles on the plain (O'erturn'd by Pallas), where the slippery shore Was clogg'd with slimy dung and mingled gore.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“Cannot you visit me as a friend and resolve not to discuss the unfortunate affair?”
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

"You're all interested, are you not?" he went on, turning to the various attentive faces, and receiving nods and words of assent.
— from The Come Back by Carolyn Wells

For, "thus saith the Lord to the enemies of Zion, Drink ye, and be drunk, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword that I send amongst you.
— from Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Third Edition) by Samuel Rutherford

Moreover, Dan was too accomplished an athlete and too fine a fellow all round not to make friends wherever he went among men.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Behind the Lines by Margaret Vandercook

The second commenced at Frederickstad and ran northward by the source of the Mooi River to Breed's Nek in the Magaliesberg, from which point it was connected with the British garrison at Commando Nek, and thus screened the western side of the Pretoria and (p. 456) Johannesburg area.
— from Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 by W. Basil (William Basil) Worsfold

He passed a feverish and restless night, and in the morning he was drawn irresistibly to the tables.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox