Anxious C. Customerless C. Confounded C. Clouted C. Minced C. Loutish C. Tired C. Exulcerated C. Borne down C. Proud C. Patched C. Sparred C. Fractured C. Stupified C. Abashed C. Melancholy C. Annihilated C. Unseasonable C. Coxcombly C. Spent C. Oppressed C. Base C. Foiled C. Grated C. Bleaked C. Anguished C.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Ma come Costantin chiese Silvestro d'entro Siratti a guerir de la lebbre; cosi` mi chiese questi per maestro a guerir de la sua superba febbre: domandommi consiglio, e io tacetti perche' le sue parole parver ebbre.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Coe Jordan Revell Co. Self Reliance Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds, Noble & Co. Stories of Charlemagne Church Stories of King Arthur Waldo Cutler Crowell Co. Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Pyle Stories of King Arthur and the Round Table Beatrice Clay Stories of the Great West Roosevelt Story of the Cowboy Hough Successful Men of To-day Wilbur F. Crafts Funk & Wagnalls Success in Life Emil Reich Duffield Co. Successward Edward Bok Revell Co. Talks with Great Workers Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Tendency James I. Vance Revell Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Comper , sb. compeer, comrade, C, S2; 50 compere , Prompt.; cumpers , pl. , MD.—Of OF. origin; Lat. comparem , (acc.).
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Col, Cal, Calah, Calach, signify properly an eminence, like the Collis of the Romans; but are often used for a fortress so situated.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

graveclothes[obs3], shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth; cerement. coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn[obs3]. grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house; cemetery, necropolis; burial place, burial ground; grave yard, church yard; God's acre; tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn; ossuary; bone house, charnel house, dead house; morgue; lich gate[obs3]; burning ghat[obs3]; crematorium, crematory; dokhma[obs3], mastaba[obs3], potter's field, stupa[obs3], Tower of Silence.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Theirs was a correct, not to say noble, position; but, as a matter of fact, they took the benefit of the sale, for the coalition chose Charles Sumner as its candidate for the Senate, while George S. Boutwell was made Governor for the Democrats.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

"It doesn't really matter in the least," Chia Cheng continued; "so that there's no necessity of changing it; but it's evident that Pao-yü doesn't apply his mind to legitimate pursuits, but mainly devotes his energies to such voluptuous expressions and wanton verses!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

'This,' said the fellow, producing one, 'this is the infallible and invaluable composition for removing all sorts of stain, rust, dirt, mildew, spick, speck, spot, or spatter, from silk, satin, linen, cambric, cloth, crape, stuff, carpet, merino, muslin, bombazeen, or woollen stuff.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

CLIMATE, country. CLOSE, secret, private; secretive. CLOSENESS, secrecy.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

When the O’Cahils, in great numbers, had got close to the gate, and were directly under the loop-hole, on a sudden streams of boiling water, heated in the castle coppers, came showering down upon the heads of the crowd below: this extinguished their fire, and cruelly scalded many of the besiegers.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir

pretty; handsome, bonny, good; beautiful; pretty; handsome, boord, board (i.e. room and board), brainch, branch, brak, break, brakfast, breakfast, br'akin', breaking, brawly, admirably; very; very much; well, breid, bread, brither, brother, brither man, fellowman; brother, brithers, brothers; fellows, brocht, brought, broucht, brought, bude, would prefer to, buik, book, also Bible buiks, books, buildin', building, b'un', bound, burnin', burning, buss, bush; shrub; thicket, buyin', buying, by ord'nar, out of the ordinary; supernatural, also unusual; exceptional by ord'nar', out of the ordinary; supernatural, also unusual; exceptional ca', call; name, ca'd, called, cairriage, carriage, cairry, carry, callin', calling, cam, came, cam', came, cankerin', souring; festering, also fretting can'le, candle, canna, cannot, carefu', careful, caret, cared, carin', caring, carryin', carrying, ca's, calls, castel, castle, cat, ointment, lit.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

With Descriptions of Cochin China, Cambodia, Sumatra, and the Malay Archipelago.
— from Left Behind; Or, Ten Days a Newsboy by James Otis

Sir R. Arbuthnot, Vice-Adm. Sir F. Mason, Sir Richard B. Comyn, Culling C. Smith, Esq., J. L. Dampier, Esq., Ludwig Tieck, &c. Price 2 s. 6 d. NICHOLS & SONS, 25.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Who but a merciful and almighty Father can create children such as she, so lovely, so lovable, and set them on the world as He sets the stars upon the sky to light it and make beholders think of holy things, and who but man could have the heart to turn such as she to the base uses whereto they are daily turned?
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

[Pg xxx] DEATH AND FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY SMITH, G.C.B. &c. &c. &c. Sir William Sidney Smith died on Friday Morning, the 26th May 1840, at his residence, No. 9, Rue d'Aguisseau, in the 76th year of his age.
— from Sketch of the History of the Knights Templars Second Edition by James Burnes

Round the Capucian church certain stanzas are written, under what are called the fourteen stazioni or stations of the cross, (places where our Saviour is supposed to have halted, or fainted under his load, on his way to Calvary.)
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

For never that house or that house's lord May evil luck or mischance befal, While their crystal chalice can soundly ring, Or sparkle brim-full at St. Cuthbert's spring.
— from Lays and Legends of the English Lake Country With Copious Notes by John Pagen White