‘Children alive?’ inquired Noggs, stepping up to him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Thus, the natives of Bonabona and Su’a’u, on the South Coast of New Guinea celebrate annually in November to January festivities, associated with dancing, gifts of pigs, the building of new houses, [ 493 ] the erection of a platform and several other features.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

sooner than; a. prefix denoting priority: n. wedge; chisel Cyna, v. to follow dogs Cynaber, n. head of a stream Cynach, n. seeding plant Cynâig, a. apt to follow dogs Cynallu, n. first power Cynamser, n. antiquity Cynamserol, a. primitive Cynan, n. faculty of speech Cynaniad, n. enunication Cynanu, v. to prelate Cynarch, n. primary request Cynarchwaeth, n. foretaste Cynarddelwi, v. to affirm beforehand Cynarfaeth, n. permeditation Cynarfaethu, v. to premeditate Cynarfer, n. original usuage Cynarparu, v. to predispose Cynauaf, n. autumn, harvest Cynauafa, v. to harvest Cynauafu, v. to gather a harvest Cynbechod, n. original sin Cynblant, n. first born Cynbrawf, n. rudiment Cynbryd, n. prototype Cynbwyll, n. forethought Cyndad, n. patriarch Cyndardd, n. first issue Cyndawd, n. antecedence Cyndeyrn, n. chief Cyndwf, n. first growth Cyndy, n. dog house Cyndyn, a. stubborn, perverse Cyndynrwydd, n. stubborness Cynddail, n. the first leaves Cynddangosiad, n. premonstraiting Cynddarbodi, v. to pre-conceive Cynddarbodaeth, n. preconception Cynddaredd, n. madness Cynddawd, n. preposition Cynddeall, v. to pre-conceive Cynddeddf, n. instinct Cynddefawd, n. precept Cynddefnydd, n. original matter Cynddeiriog, a. mad; furious Cynddeiriogi, v. to madden Cynddelw, n. archetype Cynddethol, v. to pre-elect Cynddirnad, n. pre-surmise Cynddodiad, n. preposition Cynddosbarth, n. premonstration Cynddrych, n. object Cynddrychiolydd, n. a representative Cynddyrchiol, a. present Cynddrygedd, n. mischief Cynddull, n. first form Cynddulliad, n. prefiguration Cynddydd, n. break of day Cynêica, n. to go after dogs Cynell, n. dog kennel Cynenid, a. primogeneal Cynenidedd, n. primogeniture Cynenw, n. christian name Cynenwad, n. prenomination Cynesgor, n. first delivery Cynethol, v. to pre-elect Cynfab, n. first born, male Cynfam, n. first mother Cynfardd, n. primitive bard Cynfas, n. sheet of cloth, to bed sheet Cynfebyd, n. early infacy Cynfedydd, n. first baptism Cynfedd, n. original bias Cynfeddiant, n. pre-occupation Cynflas, n. foretaste Cynflith, n. firstmilk Cynfod, n. pre-existence Cynfodol, a. pre-existent Cynfraint, n. prerogative Cynfrith, a. of variegated front Cynfro, n. a first country Cynfrodor, n. an aborigine Cynfrwydr, n. front of battle Cynfyd, n. antidiluvian world Cynfyl, n. native place Cynffon, n. tail, rump Cynffonog, a. having a tail Cynffoni, to form a tail, to cringe Cynffrwyth, n. first fruit Cynhaid, n. first swarm Cynhanfod, n. pre-existence Cynhasedd, n. a mutual bond Cynhebrwng, n. funeral Cynhebyg, a. alike, similar Cynhebygol, a. comparative Cynhebygu, v. to compare Cynhefyg, n. principal Cynhefin, n. growth of a year Cynhen, n. contention, strife Cynhenid, a. inbred, natural Cynhenllyd, a. quarrelsome Cynhenhol, a. contentions Cynhenu, v. to contend, to quarrel Cynhenus, a. contentious Cynhes, a. warm; cheering Cynhesiad, n. a warming Cynhesrwydd, n. warmth Cynhesu, v. to warm Cynhordŷ, n. court house Cynhwrf, n. commotion: trouble; disturbance Cynhyrfiad, n. an agitating Cynhyrfu, to move, to convulse Cynhyrfwr, n. an agitator Cyni, n. anguish, anxiety Cyniad, n. principal Cyniant, n. priority Cynio, v. to wedge; to chizel Cynllaeth, n. first milk Cynllaith, n. humidity Cynlliw, n. first colour Cynllog, n. common interest Cynllun, n. pattern, model Cynllunio, v. to model Cynlluniwr, n. a modeller Cynllwyn, n. waylaying Cynllwyno, v. to waylay Cynllwynwr, n. lurker Cynnadledd, n. colloquy Cynnadliad, n. a conversing Cynnadl, n. intercourse Cynnadlu, v. to intercourse Cynnal, v. to sustain, to bear Cynnaliad, n. support Cynnaliaeth, n. maintenance Cynnaliwr, n. supporter Cynnar, a. early, timely, soon Cynnaru, v. to be early Cynnarwch, n. earliness Cynau, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

It is easy for a profound philosopher to commit a mistake in his subtile reasonings; and one mistake is the necessary parent of another, while he pushes on his consequences, and is not deterred from embracing any conclusion, by its unusual appearance, or its contradiction to popular opinion.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

p. 294, "is in possession of well-established markets; there are manufactured fine stuffs, which are called after its name."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He is embarrassed which to choose, and is not unlikely to waste years in dallying with his chances, before giving himself to the serious tug and strain of a single object.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

The word 'negation' taken simpliciter is treated as if it covered an indefinite number of { 287} secundums , culminating in the very peculiar one of self-negation.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

[See on the Phasianidae family in Central and Western Asia, David et Oustalet, Oiseaux de la Chine , 401-421; the Phasianus Reevesii or veneratus is called by the Chinese of Tung-lin, near Peking, Djeu-ky (hen-arrow); the Crossoptilon auritum is named Ma-ky .—H. C.] CHAPTER LVIII.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The period of the campaign of 1812 from the battle of Borodinó to the expulsion of the French proved that the winning of a battle does not produce a conquest and is not even an invariable indication of conquest; it proved that the force which decides the fate of peoples lies not in the conquerors, nor even in armies and battles, but in something else.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She thought a chili was something cool, as its name imported, and was served with some.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I am Viola Henley, Mr. Craig, and I need you.
— from Gordon Craig, Soldier of Fortune by Randall Parrish

The temperature fell to -15° last night, with a clear sky; it rose to 0° directly the sky covered and is now just 16° to 20°.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

Polly's face fault-finding wits might scoff at as too little for the rest of the body, her features as not so well proportioned as Kate's, and her skin somewhat browner than doth consist with beauty; but in her eyes there was a cheerfulness as if nature smiled in them, in her mouth so pretty a demureness, and in her countenance such a spark of wit that, if it struck not with admiration, filled with delight.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

This comprises all I need say on the subject; except that if I had seen occasion, I had resolved to reprint a few of these details of legal proceedings, from certain old newspapers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Samuel R. Harper (Illinois): On the question presented by the first section of the tentative bill presented this afternoon, the rule, as I understand it, is that the declaration by the Legislature that a certain trade is hazardous is merely an indication of the legislative judgment on that proposition and nothing more; and that that judgment is revocable by the courts and is not conclusive unless the declaration is based in some way on some reasonable classification of hazardous trades and industries.
— from Proceedings, Third National Conference Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents by National Conference on Workmen's Compensation for Industrial Accidents

He has wronged me cruelly, and I need a friend who can serve me as you can quite easily.
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

What was possible for a compact area is not possible for an area 1,900 miles long and 1,500 broad.
— from The Wheel of Fortune by Mahatma Gandhi

Now as Mr. Harrison is fully aware that thirty years ago I reviewed the English version of those parts of the Positive Philosophy which treat of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics; and as he has referred to the pamphlet in which, ten years later, I quoted a number of passages from the original to signalize my grounds of dissent from Comte’s system; I am somewhat surprised by this statement, and by the still more emphatic statement that to me “the writings of Comte are, if not the Absolute Unknowable, at any rate the Absolute Unknown” (p. 365).
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

He understood the carefully veiled command, and it nettled him.
— from The Flying Girl and Her Chum by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

It has a black spine; always grows very even from stem to point, with scarcely any handle; carries its bloom well; keeps a good fresh color; and is not liable to turn yellow as many other sorts.
— from The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr