"Do try to understand, you idiot, and get it into your brainless head, that in addition to physical strength you have a divine spirit; a sacred fire, by which you are distinguished from an ass or a reptile and bringing you nigh to God.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But I somehow felt greatly abashed while returning home, as if I had acted like a raw and bumptious youth in thus thrusting myself upon him unasked and unintroduced.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

perhaps, peradventure Ysgaw, n. elder wood Ysgawen, n. an elder tree Ysgawn, n. light body: a. light Ysgecriad, n. a bickering Ysgecru, v. to bicker, to brawl Ysgeler, a. atrocious Ysgelerdra, n. atrociousness Ysgentyn, n. a caperer, a buffoon Ysgerbwd, n. skeleton, a carcass Ysgeth, n. a spear, a lance Ysgethriad, n. an iterating Ysgethrg, v. to iterate, to repeat Ysgi, n. a cutting off; a parer; a hat Ysgien, n. a slicer; a cymetar; turner’s lathe; tall woman Ysgil, n. a recess, a nook Ysgiliad, n. a setting behind Ysgilio, v. to set behind Ysgin, n. a skin robe, a pelisse Ysgip, n. a quick snatch Ysgipiad, n. a snatching off Ysgipio, v. to snatch away Ysgipiol, a. snatching Ysgiw, n. a screen, a settle; a third cousin Ysgiwiad, n. a sheltering Ysgiwio, n. to screen, to shelter Ysg awring, Ysgrawling, n. glue, cement Ysglawringo, v. to glue Ysglem, n. a slice, a sliver Ysglemio, v. to slice, to sliver Ysglen, n. a sex, a kind Ysglenol, a. sexual Ysglent, n. a slide; adrift Ysglyn, n. a knob, a knot Ysglino, v. to form a knob Ysglöen, n. a damsel, a maid Ysglofen, n. a slip, a spray Ysglyf, n. what seeks for prey Ysglyfaeth, n. depredation; prey, spoil Ysglyfaethiad, n. a depredating Ysglyfaethu, v. to depredate, to spoil Ysglyfiad, n. a depredator Ysglyfio, v. to depredate, to prey on Ysglymu, v. to form a knot Ysgoad, n. a starting aside Ysgoegyn, n. a coxcomb Ysgog, n. motion, stir Ysgogi, v. to wag, to stir Ysgogiad, n. a wagging, a stirring Ysgogyn, n. to flutterer Ysgol, n. a school: n. a peak; a ladder: a. vehement, active Ysgoläig, n. a scholar Ysgoleigdod, n. scholarship Ysgolelgiaeth, n. a schooling Ysgoleigio, v. to school Ysgolfaer, n. a proctor Ysgoliad, n. a schooling Ysgolp, n. a spar Ysgor, n. a rampart, a bulwark Ysgorfa, n. a place of defence Ysgori, v. to encircle, to hem Ysgoriad, n. an entrenching Ysgornio, v. to scorn, slight Ysgoth, n. a purge, a voidance Ysgothfa, n. privy-house Ysgrad, n. what is rigid or stiff Ysgraell, Ysgraen, n. the sea swallow Ysgraf, n. what scrapes off Ysgrafell, n. a scraper; a rasp; a currycomb Ysgrafellu, v. to rasp, to scrape Ysgrafiad, n. a scraping Ysgrafu, v. to scrape, to grate Ysgraf, n. a ferry boat, a ferry Ysgraffiniad, n. a scarifying Ysgraffinio, v. to scarify Ysgrain, n. what is crawling Ysgrawen, n. a hard crust Ysgrech, n. a scream Ysgrechiad, n. a shrieking Ysgrechian, v. to keep screaming Ysgrechio, to scream, to shriek Ysgrechog, n. a jay Ysgrepan, n. a wallet, a scrip Ysgri, n. a shriek, a scream Ysgrif, n. a notch; a writing Ysgrifen, n. a piece of writing Ysgrifeniad, n. a writing Ysgrifenu, v. to write, to pen Ysgrifenydd, n. a scribe, a writer Ysgnfiad, n. a writing Ysgrifo, v. to notch; to write Ysgrifwas, n. a clerk Ysgrogell, n. a draw bridge Ysgrubliad, Ysgrubl, n. a beast, a brute Ysgrud, n. a frame; a skeleton Ysgrwd, n. a carcase Ysgrwth, n. a heap, a bulk Ysgryd, n. a shiver, a shake Ysgrydiad, n. a shivering Ysgrythyr, n. the scripture Ysgrythyrol, a. scriptural Ysgub, n. a sheaf; a besom Ysgubell, n. a whisk; a besom, a broom Ysgubiad, n. a sweeping Ysgubion, n. sweepings Ysgubo, v. to whisk; to sweep Ysgubor, n. a barn Ysguborio, v. to put in a barn Ysguth, n. a scud; a whisk Ysguthan, n. a ringdove, a wood-pigeon Ysguthell, n. a scudder Ysguthiad, n. a scudding Ysgw, n. guard, care; refuge Ysgwad, n. a guarding Ysgwaeth, n. guardianship Ysgwaetheroedd, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

I kiss mamma's hand, and send you a little note and a little kiss; and remain, as before, your——What?
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

] Note 26 ( return ) [ Priscus, in relating the contest, does not name the two brothers; the second of whom he had seen at Rome, a beardless youth, with long, flowing hair, (Historians of France, tom. i. p. 607, 608.)
— 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

“Because he is young, because he is poor, because he is a relation... and because you yourself don’t love him.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

You both persuaded yourselves you were marrying from pure love, when in reality each thought the other rich; and when that turned out not to be the case, mutual anger and recriminations arose between you.
— from Edelweiss: A Story by Berthold Auerbach

Cuthbert was already sufficiently established as rather a brilliant young university man, and a partnership in a large practice in town was being arranged for.
— from The Story Book Girls by Christina Gowans Whyte

"But the flag proves that you are all right; and, besides, you couldn't have had a hand in it, for you were on your way to Newbern when it happened.
— from Marcy the Blockade Runner by Harry Castlemon

Other volumes contained maps of the fashionable residential district, showing every consecrated block and the exact location as well as the linear dimensions of every awesome residence and back yard from Washington Square to Yorkville.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The mischievous ones in the sheepskin of meekness, Then over me steals a glorious resentment, And fain would I break the new-born temples, And fight on your side, ye ancient deities, For you, and your good ambrosial rights, And before your lofty altars, The once-more-restored, the sacrifice steaming, Fain would I kneel down and pray, And, praying, raise tow’rd you my arms.—
— from The poems of Heine; Complete Translated into the original metres; with a sketch of his life by Heinrich Heine

You know you could do all right acting, but you don't dare giving up this crummy job.
— from The Old Die Rich by H. L. (Horace Leonard) Gold

"We shall probably succeed in placing you in the Academy, where, if honest and industrious, you will advance rapidly, and before you know it—hear yourself called: Doctor Erdmann!"
— from The Forest Schoolmaster by Peter Rosegger

This is the time when Lincoln fell in love with Ann Rutledge, a beautiful young woman of New Salem who was already betrothed to another.
— from Life of Abraham Lincoln Little Blue Book Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 324 by John Hugh Bowers