The queen had at first positively refused; but at length became afraid that the duke, if exasperated, would commit some folly.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

During the coroner's investigation the name of a fourth person, Rufus Bigley, was mentioned.
— from The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Honore hesitated, for he wanted to make a few preparatory remarks before coming to his proposition; but as he could hit upon nothing, he made up his mind suddenly.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

As Mr. Pope's note concerning Johnson, alluded to in a former page, refers both to his London, and his Marmor Norfolciense, I have deferred inserting it till now.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Benywol, a. female Ber, n. a lance, a pike; a spit; n. a shank; a leg a. short; brief; scanty Bera, n. pyramid; a stack Beraes, n. a short shield Berai, n. a turn-spit, a jack Beran, n. a little spit; a broad Berasgell, n. the penguin Berdroell, n. a jack-wheel Berdas, n. a shrimp Berfa, n. a barrow Berfain, a. slender-shanked Berfaydd, n. a barrow man Bergam, a. bow-legged Beri, n. a kite, a glead Beriau, n. a short yoke Berllysg, n. a truncheon Bernais, n. a varnish; a cover Beroes, n. short life Berrwy, n. a fetter Berth, n. perfection, beauty: a fair, pleasant; rich Berthiad, n. a beautifying Berthog, a. endowed, wealthy Berthogi, v. to endow Berthu, v. to beautify Berthyd, n. ornament, jewel Beru, v. to pike, to spit Berw, n. boiling, ebullition Berwad, n. boiling, decoction Berwadwy, a. decoctible Berwedig, a. boiled, decocted Berwedydd, n. a boiler Berwedd, n. a boiling state Berweddu, v. to brew, to decoct Berwi, v. to boil; to bubble Berwol, a. boiling; bubbling Berwr, n. cresses Berwydd, n. a boiler; brewer Berwydda, v. to brew Berwyddfa, n. a brewery Bery, n. a kite, a glead Berysgrifen, n. brachygraphy Beth, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

(After these reflections we made ready to pay the last rites to the corpse,) and Lycas was burned upon a funeral pyre raised by the hands of enemies, while Eumolpus, fixing his eyes upon the far distance to gain inspiration, composed an epitaph for the dead man: HIS FATE WAS UNAVOIDABLE NO ROCK-HEWN TOMB NOR SCULPTURED MARBLE HIS, HIS NOBLE CORPSE FIVE FEET OF EARTH RECEIVED, HE RESTS IN PEACE BENEATH
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

"That the robe or mantle of a Marchioness be as before, only the cape powdered with three rows and a half of ermine, the edging 4 inches in breadth, the train 1¾ yards; the coronet to be composed of four strawberry leaves and four pearls (represented by silver balls)
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

After a few preliminary remarks by President Kaempf, the Chancellor arose.
— from Germany, The Next Republic? by Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

well he could do it,—and if there wasn't a few playful remarks between 'em about penal servitude for life.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

It won't do us any harm to obey a few parliamentary rules, but if we are too particular it'll be horrid."
— from Ethel Morton at Chautauqua by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

“ Pileus fleshy, obtusely conico-campanulate, then expanded, at first floccose, then smooth, even, or rivulose; stem hollow, with a floccose pith; ring broad, pendulous, double, the outer split in rays; gills free, wider in front, at first dirty white, then brown, tinged with pink.”
— from Mushroom Culture: Its Extension and Improvement by W. (William) Robinson

Was this just a news program, or was it a feature program run by a particular reporter or commentator?
— from Warren Commission (08 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Bidding me wedge myself into a firm place, Roman began to cut footholds up the icicle, and then, when after a few steps the cleft or chimney ended, he turned to his right and wormed himself along the very face of the cliff, holding on by the merest irregularities, which can hardly be termed ledges.
— from True Tales of Mountain Adventures: For Non-Climbers Young and Old by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

Let a few plain rules be given for sounding the final è of syllables, and for expressing the termination of such words as ocëan , and natiön , &c. as dissyllables,— or let the syllables to be sounded in such cases be marked by a competent metrist.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the frog we have a cartilaginous skeleton overlaid by numerous bony scutes (shield-like plates) which, when the student comes to study that type, he will perceive are equivalent to the bony parts of such scales as occur in the dog-fish, sunk inward, and plating over the cartilage; and in the frog the cartilage also is itself, in a few places, replaced by bony tissue.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Roman roads are most inhospitable, offering no shade, and no seat, and no pleasant views of rustic domiciles; nothing but the wheel-track of white dust, without a foot path running by its side, and seldom any grassy margin to refresh the wayfarer's feet.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne