H2 anchor CHAPTER III—MEETING AT THE BOTANICAL Young Jolyon, whose circumstances were not those of a Forsyte, found at times a difficulty in sparing the money needful for those country jaunts and researches into Nature, without having prosecuted which no watercolour artist ever puts brush to paper.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

not usual: discordium , at variance , and vēcordium , frantic , once each. -aus , -audis fraus , F., deceit , G. Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The Plaza de Armas adjacent to the fort had its arsenal, stores, powder-works, and a foundry for the casting of guns and artillery.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

I'm comin'!' scrambled down till he found a firm foothold.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

They selected, with the consent and by the choice of the holy Church of the English nation, a priest named Wighard, 500 one of Bishop Deusdedit's clergy, a good man and fitted for the episcopate, and sent him to Rome to be ordained bishop, to the end that, having been raised to the rank of an archbishop, he might ordain Catholic prelates for the Churches of the English nation throughout all Britain.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

My argument against this, in which Katsura concurred, was that a change of road would give rise to a great deal more ill-will between the opposite nationalities than the murder of a few foreigners, and that from what we had hitherto seen in this country a little fighting would open the eyes of the Japanese and make us all better friends than before; in fact, we held it was better to apply caustic at once than to let the disease linger on and attempt to cure each symptom as it presented itself.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The King accordingly dispatched his envoys anew with a letter of thanks, and begging as a further favour that Page 282 the cure should be completed by the healing also of his right side.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

[‘ ferd ’] fierd- v. also fyrd-. fierdian (y) to go on an expedition, march , Chr .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Hamilton himself, in his "Vindication," not only acknowledges this, but boasts of it—"blessing God for it," he says, and "desiring to bless his holy name that since he helped me to set my face to his work, I never had nor would take a favour from mine enemies, either on the right or left hand, and desire to give as few."
— from Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses by Andrew Macgeorge

I have writ to her, danced with her, and fought for her, and have been her Man in the Sight and Expectation of the whole Town these 1 three Years, and thought my self near the End of my Wishes; when the other Day she called me into her Closet, and told me, with a very grave Face, that she was a Woman of Honour, and scorned to deceive a Man who loved her with so much Sincerity as she saw I did, and therefore she must inform me that she was by Nature the most inconstant Creature breathing, and begg'd of me not to marry her; If I insisted upon it, I should; but that she was lately fallen in Love with another.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

As for Frank, Mr. Foster had readily volunteered to visit the steamship office, in the city, when he went over to business, next day, and do whatever might be needed with reference to the young gentleman's baggage.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 by Various

On the fourth side was an irregular row of buildings; first a long shed with windows at wide intervals, before which stood a sentry, who gazed across at the recruits with great curiosity; next a forge, from the door of which a grimy blacksmith and his assistants were watching, and a soldier in a grey jacket was leading out a black mare that had just been shod; then came another shed with large gates, one of which was open, and a number of men inside were busily engaged around a gun with cloths and brushes.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

I woke in a fright from a dream I had, and the room was filled with smoke; and when I made my way to the door and opened it the flames burst out, and I saw my husband lying on the bed.
— from Stephen Grattan's Faith: A Canadian Story by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Enter King with Tarudante and Ferdinand, followed by Enrique and Sala.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 5 by Robert Bridges

[858] The Guises and the queen mother, who were now in co-operation, [859] at once began to practice to lure Condé away forever from his party, and the former at the same time, in order to make the alliance between France and Scotland more firm, conceived the idea of marrying the prince of Condé to Mary Queen of Scots.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

Before luncheon, Andrew and I had made a tour of the roof, and he had demonstrated unanswerably, and with appalling examples from barracks that he had repaired in Central India, and built in Wei-hai-Wei, that nothing but habit and family feeling induced any one of the chimney stacks to stand up.
— from In Mr. Knox's Country by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

When the novice essays to shoot the pistol or revolver, the results are generally disappointing and discouraging; but rapid progress invariably rewards the efforts of those who persevere, and when once thoroughly interested in this style of shooting, there comes a fascination for it that frequently endures throughout a lifetime.
— from Pistol and Revolver Shooting by A. L. A. (Abraham Lincoln Artman) Himmelwright