( weak ), S2; luȝen , pl. , S; lowen , pp. , concealed by lying, S; lowen vpon , lied against, PP; i-loȝe , lied, S.—AS. léogan , pt. léag (pl. lugon ), pp. logen .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It is a perpetual “I love you.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I saw the Wartburg and Berlin; I made the Harzreise and climbed the Brocken; I saw the Hansa towns and the cities and dorfs of South Germany; I saw the Alps at Berne, the Cathedral at Milan, Florence, Rome, Venice, Vienna, and Pesth; I looked on the boundaries of Russia; and I sat in Paris and London.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He pass'd a pond; and from its border bogs, Plunge after plunge, in leap'd the timid frogs, 'Aha!
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

The perfect unity of this kind of cognitions, which are based upon pure conceptions, and uninfluenced by any empirical element, or any peculiar intuition leading to determinate experience, renders this completeness not only practicable, but also necessary.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

“I shall take more interest than ever in my studies now,” said Anne blissfully, “because I have a purpose in life.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"I go to a place I like.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Keep a people in leading strings, it is said, and the moment the strings break, or are worn out, the people will not know where to go.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

One liquid, r , is assimilated to another, l : as, pelliciō , I lead astray ( 956 ), for *per-liciō ; agellus , small field , for *agerlos ; pūllus , clean , from *pūrlos (cf. pūrus , clean ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I am accustomed to ride up and down the country at any pace I like; and it is very tiresome to walk stupidly round and round for an hour."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

It interferes with all pleasure in life; it makes clear, open intercourse with others impossible; it interferes with any form of use into which it is permitted to intrude.
— from As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call

Thus, if a person is looking at an octopus in captivity and the animal is so placed that it cannot escape, the observer will be astonished to see the body of the animal suddenly assume a deep pinkish color which in turn is succeeded by a blue and then by a green, and finally a return to pink.
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 5 [May 1901] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

Thomas Cromwell employed Miles Coverdale to revise existing translations, and this Bible was printed partly in Paris and partly in London, "and finished in Aprill, a.d. 1539.
— from St. John's College, Cambridge by Robert Forsyth Scott

The MS. begins with an “Advertisement” in the handwriting of Southey, and it is followed immediately by a poem in Lamb’s handwriting headed “Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco,” in ten stanzas rhiming alternately thus:— It lay before me on the close grazed grass Beside my path, an old tobacco quid: And shall I by the mute adviser pass Without one serious thought?
— from The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections by A. Edward (Alfred Edward) Newton

The superior was one of the twenty-five mitred Abbots in England; he was called the “Lord of Lindsey,” had a seat in the House of Lords, and a palace in London.
— from Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter by James Conway Walter

Ascra laments thee far more than her Hesiod, and Pindar is less regretted by the forests of Boeotia.
— from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English Prose by of Phlossa near Smyrna Bion

He was telling them about the need for all sentient beings to have a purpose in life.
— from Abducted to Oz by Chris Dulabone

I mention all this, not to make myself wantonly disagreeable, but because military persons, thinking naturally that there is nothing like leather, are now talking of this war as likely to become a permanent institution like the Chamber of Horrors at Madame Tussaud's, forgetting, I think, that the rate of consumption maintained by modern military operations is much greater relatively to the highest possible rate of production maintainable under the restrictions of war time than it has ever been before.
— from New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 1, No. 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915, With Index by Various