The legate Albornoz, who seemed desirous of his ruin, inflexibly refused all supplies of men and money; a faithful subject could no longer presume to touch the revenues of the apostolical chamber; and the first idea of a tax was the signal of clamor and sedition.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A ludicrous ceremony, practised every new parliament: it consists of a mock election of two members to represent the borough of Garret (a few straggling cottages near Wandsworth in Surry); the qualification of a voter is, having enjoyed a woman in the open air within that district: the candidates are commonly fellows of low humour, who dress themselves up in a ridiculous manner.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

This stone edifice consisted of a central mass and two wings, whereon stood as sentinels a few slim chimneys, now gurgling sorrowfully to the slow wind.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

A few spectators came near, drawn by the seemingly conferring group, then more and more, and quickly there was a pushing, gaping crowd.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Late as it is, I put myself to school, And feel some comfort, not to be a fool.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

3813 Parisot remarks, that it is true that the Euphrates increases periodically, much in the same manner as the Nile; but that its increase does not arise from similar causes, nor are the same results produced by it, seeing that the river does not convey the same volume of water as the Nile, and that the country in the vicinity of its bed does not, like Egypt, form a valley pent up between two ranges of hills. 3814
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And when the spaces allotted for soldiers could not contain them, he made all Rome itself his camp, and filled all the houses with his armed men; which men, when they saw the riches of Rome with those eyes which had never seen such riches before, and found themselves shone round about on all sides with silver and gold, they had much ado to contain their covetous desires, and were ready to betake themselves to plunder, and to the slaughter of such as should stand in their way.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Cader buwch, cow’s udder Cadernid, n. strength Cadfarch, n. a war horse Cadfiled, n. the march of battle Cadfiliad, n. a general Cadflaen, n. the van of an army Cadfridog, n. a general Cadganu, v. to forswear Cadgorn, n. a horn of battle Cadlan, n. a field of battle Cadlas, n. a close, a croft, a yard Cadlys, n. an intrenchment Cadnaw, Cadno, n. a fox Cadnoes, n. a she fox Cadraith, n. military discipline Cadrawd, n. rage of battle Cadres, n. a line of battle Cadseirch, n. war-harness Cadu, v. to battle, to conflict Cadw, n. a keeping; a flock, a herd; v. to keep, to preserve Cadwad, n. a keeping Cadwadog, n. a preservative Cadwadol, a. preservative Cadwadwy, a. preservable Cadwaith, n. action, battle Cadwedig, preserved, guarded, kept, saved Cadwedigaeth, n. preservation Cadwedigol, a. preservative Cadweidiaeth, n. preservation Cadweini, n. knight-service Cadwen, n. a bandage, a chain Cadwent, n. a field of battle Cadwfa, n. a reservoir Cadwr, n. a warrior Cadwraeth, n. preservation Cadwraidd, n. radiation of sinews Cadwy, n. a covering a rug Cadwyd, v. to keep, to preserve Cadwydd, n. a brake Cadwyn, n. a bond, a chain Cadwynad, n. a chaining Cadwynedigaeth, n. catentation Cadwyno, v. to chain Cadwynodi, v. to rhyme alternately Cadwynog, a. chained Cadwynol, a. chaining Cadwynor, n. a binder in chains Caddug, n. an obscurity; an eclipse Caddugo, to obscure, to darken Caddugol, a. gloomy, obscure Cae, n. an inclosure, a hedge, a field; a. inclosed, shut, close Caead, n. a cover, a lid; a. inclosed, shut, closed Caeadlen, n. a curtain Caeadrwydd, n. inclosed state Caeadu, v. to inclose, to close Cael, v. to get, to have Caenen, n. a covering; a layer Caenenu, v. to incrustate Caeniad, n. a coating over Caenu, v. to incrust Caeog, a. inclosed, wreathed Caeol, a. tending to close Caeor, n. a sheep fold Caer, n. a fort; a wall; a city Caerog, a. fortified, fenced Caeru, v. to wall, to fortify Caerwaith, n. fortification Caeth, n. a bondman, a slave Caeth, a. bound, straight Caethder, n. restriction Caethedig, a. restricted Caethes, n. a female slave Caethforwyn, n. a bondwoman Caethfyd, n. a state of slavery Caethglud, n. a captive Caethgludiad, n. a carrying captive Caethgludo, v. to carry captive Caethaid, n. a straitening Caethiant, n. confinement Caethiw, a. confined, servile Caethiwed, n. slavery, bondage Caethiwedig, a. confined Caethiwo, v. to confine, to enslave Caethiwol, a. confining Caethlwnc, difficult swallowing Caethnawd, n. a slavish state Caethrawd, n. bondage Caethu, v. to confine, to enslave Caethwas, n. a bondman Caf, n. a void, a hold, a cave Cafall, n. a cell, a chancel Cafn, n. a trough, a canoe Cafniad, n. a scooping Cafnu, v. to scoop, to hollow out Caffad, n. attainment Caffael, v. to get, to obtain Caffaeliad, n. a getting hold of Caffawd, n. acquirement Caffell, n. a grasper, a valve Caffiad, n. grasping; a throwing about the arms, to seize Cagl, n. sheep dung; mire Caglog, a. bedaggled, daggled Caglu, v. to bedaggle Cangen, n. a nymph; a branch Cangenog, a. having branches Cangeniad, n. a branching Cangenu, v. to branch out Canghell, n. a chancel Canghellog, a. having a chancel Canghellor, n. a chancellor Canghelloriaeth, n. chancellorship Canghellydd, n. a chancellor Caib, n. a mattock, a hoe Cainc, n. a branch, a bough Cail, n. a fold, a sheep-fold Caill, n. a testicle Cain, clear, bright, fair, beautiful Cair, n. berries Cais, n. an effort; a getting Cala, n. a stem, a stalk Calaf, n. a reed, a stalk Calafog, a. having a reed Calan, first day of every month Calch, n. lime, enamel Calchiaid, n. a coat of enamel Calchaidd, a. calcareous Calchdo, n. enamel covering Calchedig, a. covered with lime Calchiad, n. a liming Calchog, a. calcareous, limed Calchwr, n. a lime burner Caled, n. hardness, hardship; a. hard, hardy; severe Calededd, n. hardness, obduracy Caledi, n. hardness; hardship Calediad, n. a hardening Caledrwydd, n. hardness Caledu, v. to harden Caledwch, n. hardness Calen, n. a whetstone Calon, n. a heart; a centre Calondid, n. heartiness Calonog, hearty, valiant Calonogi, to hearten up, to encourage Calonogrwydd, n. heartiness Call, n. what starts out Call, a. wise, prudent Callaidd, a. somewhat cunning Callawr, n. a cauldron Callder, n. circumspection Called, n. stalks of pulse, thistles, and the like Calledd, n. discreetness Callestr, n. pyrites; flint Callestrol, a. flinty, of flint Callineb, n. circumspection Callod, n. fungi; agaric Callodryn, n. a knotted stalk Calloraid, n. a chaldron-ful Cam, n. circumvention; a step, stride, or pace; a. crooked; Camarfer, n. misusage Camder, n. crookedness Camdriniaeth, n. mismanagement Camdroi, v. to pervert Camdybiad, n. misconception Camddeall, v. to misunderstand Camddirnad, v. to misapprehend Camddodi, v. to misplace Camedd, n. a bending Cameg, n. felly of a wheel Camen, n. a whirl, a curve Camenw, n. misnomer Camaenwad, n. misnaming Camfa, n. stile or step Camfarnu, v. to misjudge Camfeddiant, n. usurpation Camfeddylio, v. to misconceive Camgred, n. heresy Camgyfrifiad, n. a misreckoning, a miscounting Camgymmeriad, n. a mistake Camgymmeryd, v. to mistake Camlas, n. a trench, a ditch Camlwrw, n. a fine for injury Camlywodraeth, n. misgovernment Camosod, v. to misplace Camosodiad, n. a misplacing Camp, n. a feat; a game Campfa, n. a place for games Campio, v. to strive at games Campus, a. excellent, masterly Campwri, n. masterpiece Camraw, n. a shovel Camre, n. a pace, a step Camreoli, v. to misgovern Camrifo, v. to miscount Camsyniad, n. misconception Camsynied, v. to misconceive Camwedd, n. iniquity, injustice Camweddog, a. iniquitious Camweddu, v. to transgress Camweddus, a. iniquitious Caraweithred, n. a misdeed Camwri, n. perversion, abuse Camymddwyn, v. to misconduct Camymddygiad, misconducting Camystum, n. distortion Camystyr, n. a wrong sense Camystyriaeth, n. misconstruction Camystyried, v. to misapprehend Cân, n. a descant, a song Càn, n. sight; brightness; whiteness, flour: a. white Canad, n. a bleaching Canaid, n. a luminary Canawd, n. a descanting Canbost, n. a prop, a baluster Candryll, a. all to pieces Canedig, a. blanched, whitened Canfed, a. hundredth Canfod, v. to behold, to perceive Canfodadwy, a. perceptible Canfodiad, n. a perceiving Canfys, n. the ring-finger Canhauol, n. pellitory Caniad, n. license, consent: n. a song, music Caniadaeth, n. science of song Caniatâd, n. permission Caniatâol, a. permissive Caniatâu, v. to permit, to consent Canlyn, v. to follow, to pursue Canlyniad, n. a following Canlyniadol, a. consequential Canlynol, a. following Canlynwr, n. a follower Canllaw, support; ballustrade Canllawiaeth, n. supportation Canmol, v. to commend Canmoladwy, a. commendable Canmoliad, n. commendation Canmoliaeth, n. commendation Canmoliaethol, commendatory Canmoliant, n. commendation Cannu, v. to contain Cannwynol, a. congenial Canol, n. a middle, a centre Canolaidd, a. middling; central Canolbarth, n. a middle point Canoldir, n. an inland region Canoli, v. to centre Canoliad, n. what is central Canolig, a. middling, ordinary Canolog, a. middlemost, central Canolydd, n. a middle man Canon, a song; a canon, a rule Canonwr, n. a canonist Canplyg, a. hundredfold Canryg, n. rye-flour Cant, n. an orb, rim, or verge of a circle; a hundred Cantel, n. a rim of a circle Cantell, n. a rim or verge Cantor, n. a singer Cantores, n. a songstress Cantref, n. a canton, a hundred Cantro, a. centuple Cantroed, a. centipede Cantwr, n. a singer Cantwraig, n. a songstress Cànu, v. to bleach, to whiten Canu, v. to sing; to play music Canwaith, a hundred times Canwelw, a. of a bluish white Cànwr, n. a bleacher Canwr, n. a singer Canwraidd, a. hundred-rooted Canwraig, n. a songstress Canwriad, n. a centurion Canwyl, n. a horse-mask Canwyll, n. a candle Canwyllbren, n. a candlestick Canwyllwr, a dealer in candles Canwyllydd, n. a chandler Canwyllyr, n. a chandelier Canwyr, n. a plane Canwyro, v. to plane; also to mark beasts by cutting the ear Canwyrydd, n. a planer Canyddiaeth, n. the art of singing Canys, conj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

“And, in the meantime,” said Locksley, “we will beset the place so closely, that not so much as a fly shall carry news from thence.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The reason why they did not transport their goods the whole passage by sea, may be found in their ignorance and fears: their inexperienced mariners and frail ships could not succeed in doubling Cape Malea in Laconia; off which, and between it and Crete, the sea was frequently very boisterous.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by William Stevenson

"She said a feeling she could not resist, made her think it her duty to leave home and found a safe, calm retreat, by which much good could be done for the sick, poor or suffering, of a large city like Montreal.
— from Zoe; Or, Some Day: A Novel by May Leonard

The fears of a small community, proud of its local rights and conscious that its place in a federal system could never be a commanding one, are not to be despised.
— from The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion by A. H. U. (Arthur Hugh Urquhart) Colquhoun

2. Diagrammatic representation of the kidney proper on one side of a female Scyllium canicula, natural size, shewing the ducts of the kidney and the dilated portion of the Wolffian duct.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

The material is Persian thread, No. 12; and you work with a fine steel crochet needle, with a screw handle.
— from The Ladies' Work-Table Book Containing Clear and Practical Instructions in Plain and Fancy Needlework, Embroidery, Knitting, Netting and Crochet by Anonymous

At first she could not believe it possible, and hoped against hope that there had been some terrible mistake.
— from If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

She sobbed so that at first she could not answer; but at last she cried: "
— from Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

Two hands, together joined in prayer, With a roll and a volley of spheric thunder; Two hands, in hope spread half asunder, An empty gulf of longing embrace; Two hands, wide apart as they can fare In a fear still coasting not touching Despair, But turning again, ever round to prayer: Two hands, human hands, pass with awful motion From isle to isle of the sapphire ocean.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

As Lady Glencora stood she could hardly see,—indeed, at first she could not see,—one or two who were congregated at this spot.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope