"I think you are rafted, and not yourself," he continued.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

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

First you’ll marry a combination of calico and consumption that’s as thin as a rail, and next you’ll get a creature that’s nothing more than the dropsy in disguise, and then you’ve got to eke out that bridal dress with an old balloon.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

But, though both labour and rest are necessary, yet the latter is preferable to the first; and by all means we ought to learn what we should do when at rest: for we ought not to employ that time at play; for then play would be the necessary business of our lives.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

“You are rich and noble, you are clever and talented, well, be so, God bless you.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Can you teach me how this is? SOCRATES: I told you, Meno, just now that you were a rogue, and now you ask whether I can teach you, when I am saying that there is no teaching, but only recollection; and thus you imagine that you will involve me in a contradiction.
— from Meno by Plato

Rule of Residue : "When in any phenomena we find a result remaining after the effects of all known causes are estimated, we may attribute it to a residual agent not yet reckoned."
— from Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training by William Walker Atkinson

When I was still silent she continued: "I told you [Pg 249] how Maizie felt, and I thought it was all right, and now you do it again.
— from The Story of an Untold Love by Paul Leicester Ford

Gentlemen, quoth Aesop, I remember you derided my dialogue of the daws and rooks; and now you can admire and believe as improbable a story of dolphins.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Holding fast by this true substance, he learns to feel how far all other things are substance or shadow; and, if he hold on, at length walks the highway of life free, invincible, and rejoicing; all nature yielding him aliment and peace.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

"Distracted!" replied Sancho; "it is I that am distracted, and carried a rambling, and not your master.
— from The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

'Your imagination is all right, and New York is neither heaven nor the other place.
— from The Water Ghost and Others by John Kendrick Bangs

I am rich again now: you can't tell how rich I am, and nothing to do with my money, and nobody likely to share it.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 3 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

[1] I perceived all its excellences, on a first reading, as readily as now you have been removing a supposed film from my eyes.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb