Fool as I may be, I am not so conceited as to suppose that!" "I think you—are conceited, nevertheless," said Bathsheba, looking askance at a reed she was fitfully pulling with one hand, having lately grown feverish under the soldier's system of procedure—not because the nature of his cajolery was entirely unperceived, but because its vigour was overwhelming.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

We have only to see their books if we are not sufficiently convinced of this, and we shall very quickly become so, perhaps too much.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

agutíut n squeaking, creaking sound produced by two surfaces rubbing against each other.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

It was so slight, that the next morning he felt nothing of it, and when he heard the hunting cries outside, he exclaimed, "I cannot stop away—I must be there, and none shall catch me so easily again!"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

a. searching Chwiliadwy, a. searchable Chwilied, to search, to examine Chwiliedydd, n. a searcher Chwilio, v. to search, to seek, to look for Chwiliogaeth, n. gorcery Chwilioges, n. a sorceress Chwiliores, n. a hornet Chwilioryn, n. a maggot Chwilog, a. whirling: n. the lesser guillemot Chwilota, v. to catch beetles Chwilotai, n. a pryer about Chwim, Chwimiad, n. motion Chwimio, v. to move briskly Chwimiol, a. full of motion Chwimp, n. a turn; a hap Chwimwth, a. nimble, speedy Chwimythder, n. nimbleness Chwip, n. a quick turn: a quick, swift Chwipiad, n. a whipping Chwipio, v. to whip, to slap Chwipyn, n. a quick turn: a quick, instantly Chwistrell, n. a syringe Chwistrelliad, n. a squirting Chwistrellu, to syringe; to squirt Chwitchwat, n. a sly pilferer Chwith, a. sinister untoward Chwithig, a. sinister, left Chwithigrwydd, n. corruptness Chwithio, v. to feel awkward Chwithol, a. sinister Chwithrwd, n. a rustling Chwithrwd, v. to rustle Chwiw, n. a whirl; an attack or fit of discease Chwiwbigo, v. to pilfer Chwiwdwll, n. a lurking hole Chwiwell, n. a whirler; the widgeon; the female salmon Chwiwgi, n. a sculking dog; a thief, a rogue Chwiwiad, n. turning round Chwiwian, v. to hunt about Chwiwio, v. to fly about; to pry to pilfer Chwiwladrad, n. a pilfering Chwiwladrata, v. to pilfer Chwiwleidr, n. a pilferer Chwiws, n. widgeons Chwychwl, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

He talked hopefully to Becky; but an age of anxious waiting passed and no sounds came again.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Ingenium res adversæ nudare solent, celare secundæ —As a rule, adversity reveals genius, and prosperity conceals it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But you need not believe with your eyes shut and noses stopped, chief, since you have the means of learning for yourselves the truth of what I tell you.
— from Oak Openings by James Fenimore Cooper

It boasts of banks, a newspaper, several churches, and the Gill College,—an imposing edifice which was erected by private endowment.
— from Six Months at the Cape by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

And now she could see nothing else; the park, with the regions beyond it and the sky above it, had become merely a setting for one man and one woman; the avenue, fresh strewn with red golden gravel, led up to them and ended there at their feet; a young poplar trembled in the wind and shook its silver green fans above them in delicate confusion.
— from Superseded by May Sinclair

Neither are these Evacuations only negatively wrong, merely from doing no Good; for considerable Evil positively ensues from the Application of those acrid irritating Medicines, which increase the Pain and Inflammation; drawing the Humours upon those Parts that were already overloaded with them; which by no means expel the Cause of the Disease, that not being at this time fitted for Expulsion, as not sufficiently concocted or ripe: and yet which, at the same Time, discharge the thinnest Part of the Blood, whence the Remainder becomes more thick; in short which carry off the useful, and leave the hurtful Humours behind.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

And as long as you don't care for it, and no sense can be knocked into your head about it, I hope you'll marry somebody that does know the value of it.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Just before dinner she arrives; there is a little flutter in the hall, a few words, a few steps, and then the door is thrown open, and a young woman, tall, with dark eyes and hair, a nose slightly celestial, and a very handsome figure, enters.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess