“Bid the master of my meat quarries approach the throne,” cried King Gelidus suddenly, in a voice of icy dignity.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

It is a particular manner of forming an idea: And as the same idea can only be varyed by a variation of its degrees of force and vivacity; it follows upon the whole, that belief is a lively idea produced by a relation to a present impression, according to the foregoing definition.]
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The Normans, who had so long been concealed by a veil of impenetrable darkness, suddenly burst forth in the spirit of naval and military enterprise.
— 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

Out of this chaos and vision of imminent destruction Abd-er-Rahmān had evolved order and prosperity.
— from The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

[Pg 191] His loves and hates, his joys and sorrows, his pride, his wrath, his gentleness, his boldness, his timidity—all these permanent qualities, which run through humanity and vary only in degree, belong to his inherited structure.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

IF YOU WISH, ADD MUSTARD AND VINEGAR, OR, IF DESIRED RICHER, ADD RAISINS.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Diffyg anadl, shortness of breath Diffygiad, n. defection Diffygio, v. to be defective Diffygïol, a. defective, weary Diffyn, n. defence, guard Diffynadwy, a. defensible Diffynol, a. defensive Diffyniad, n. a defending Diffyniant, a. unprosperous Diffynu, v. to defend; to guard Dîg, n. passion; anger; ire: a. angry, displeased Digabl, a. uncalumniated Digadarn, a. not powerful Digae, a. unenclosed, unfenced Digaer, a. unwalled, unfortified Digaeth, a. unconfined Digaethiwed, a. unconfined Digainc, a. not having branches Digais, a. not seeking; negligent Digaled, a. not obdurate Digalon, a. heartless, dispirited Digalondid, n. heartlessness Digaloni, v. to dishearten Digaloniad, a. disheartening Digam, a. not bent Digamwedd, a. faultess Digamwri, a. void of iniquity Digar, a. not loved; forlorn Digarad, a. disregarded; forlorn Digarc, a. careless; unanxious Digarchar, a. unimprisoned Digardd, a. unstigmatised Digariad, a. unbeloved, forlorn Digaru, v. to cease loving Digas, a without hatred, unhated Diguer, n. anger, displeasure Diged, a. without treasure Digedenu, v. to remove nap Digeintach, a. without bickening Digel, a. not hidden, not secret Digelwydd, a. free from falsehood Digellwair, a. not joking Digen, a. without scales, or scurf Digenedl, a. without a family Digenfigen, a. without envy Digeraint, a. without kindred Digerdd, a. artless; songless Digerth, a. not imminent Digerydd, a. without rebuke Digiad, n. an angering Digib, a. having no husk Digig, a. without flesh, fleshless Digil, a. unreceding; firm Digilwg, a. without frown Digio, v. to offend, to anger Diglefyd, a. free from disease Digliw, a. incompact, deformed Diglod, a. without fame Digloff, a. not lame or halt Diglwyt, a. uninfected; sane Digllon, a. angry, wrathful Digllonder, n. wrathfulness Diglonedd, n. displeasure Diglloni, v. to be displeased Digoed, a. without wood Digofaint, n. anger, displeasure Digoll, a. without loss or lapse Digolled, a. free of loss, safe Digollediad, n. indemnification Digolledu, v. make good a loss Digon, a. & ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

There were just two places to be had inside, and just three to be had out; so Sam Weller booked for them all, and having exchanged a few compliments with the booking-office clerk on the subject of a pewter half-crown which was tendered him as a portion of his ‘change,’ walked back to the George and Vulture, where he was pretty busily employed until bed-time in reducing clothes and linen into the smallest possible compass, and exerting his mechanical genius in constructing a variety of ingenious devices for keeping the lids on boxes which had neither locks nor hinges.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I considered it a narrative of facts, and discovered in it a vein of interest deeper than what I found in fairy tales: for as to the elves, having sought them in vain among foxglove leaves and bells, under mushrooms and beneath the ground-ivy mantling old wall-nooks, I had at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant; whereas, Lilliput and Brobdignag being, in my creed, solid parts of the earth’s surface, I doubted not that I might one day, by taking a long voyage, see with my own eyes the little fields, houses, and trees, the diminutive people, the tiny cows, sheep, and birds of the one realm; and the corn-fields forest-high, the mighty mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like men and women, of the other.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Strong nitric acid acts violently on it, decomposing and dissolving it.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Every day or two some new idea flashes upon one of them and vanishes, or is discarded after trial.
— from James Watt by Andrew Carnegie

The two first ages of its history are very obscure; it does not begin to be known till after the age of Gelon, and furnishes in the sequel many great events for the space of more than two hundred years.
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

His words referred to the fact that, without surrendering our suite at the New Louvre Hotel, we had gone upon a visit, of indefinite duration, to a mythical friend; and now were quartered in furnished chambers adjoining Fleet Street.
— from The Hand of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

America is still the land of hope—the land where the poor man's horizon is not bounded by a vista of inevitable dependence on charity; where—in spite of some superficially grotesque results—every man can speak to every other without the oppressive sense of condescension; where a civil word from a poor man is not always a covert request for a gratuity and a tacit confession of dependence.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

Now, as to Casey: he has been described as a ruffian and villain of irredeemable depravity—desperate to the last degree.
— from The Vigilance Committee of 1856 by James O'Meara

On account of the instability of the hypnoidal state, and because of the continuous fluctuation and variation of its depth, the subconscious dissociated experiences come up in bits and scraps, and often may lack the sense of familiarity and recognition.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

James then renewed his suit to the younger princess, and still found obstacles from the intrigues of Elizabeth, who, merely with a view of interposing delay, proposed to him the sister of the king of Navarre, a princess much older than himself, and entirely destitute of fortune.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

An approximation to the proportions of Sanskrit existing in some of the principal languages will show that the amount constantly diminishes as we recede from Java and Sumatra, until all vestiges of it disappear in the dialects of Polynesia.
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir