Why, I cannot contain myself for joy!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder; pericarp, udder. stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket; mouth. pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net; ditty bag, ditty box; housewife, hussif; saddlebags; portfolio; quiver &c. (magazine) 636. chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary; trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise; grip, grip sack [U.S.]; skippet, vasculum; boot, imperial; vache; cage, manger, rack.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He belongs to the Cochin China mission, and had come from among the savage Stiêns to renew his stock of provisions; but, having been attacked by dysentery, owing to the fatigue of the journey, he had been unable to return.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

cweldeht corrupted, mortified , Lcd 47b.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“Why, you saved that Levin from disagreeable consequences.” “Yes, sa compagne called me, and I tried to pacify him, he’s very ill, and was dissatisfied with the doctor.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[‘ cheap ’] cēapcniht m. bought servant, slave , Gl .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

One of these village lights, glaring redly through a crimson curtain, marked out the particular window behind which it was likely that Luke Marks sat nodding drowsily over his liquor, and waiting for the coming of his wife.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

In this case, continued my father, which Plato, I am persuaded, never thought of—Love, you see, is not so much a Sentiment as a Situation, into which a man enters, as my brother Toby would do, into a corps—no matter whether he loves the service or no—being once in it—he acts as if he did; and takes every step to shew himself a man of prowesse.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

SYN: Concoct, compound, mix, hatch, prepare, season, threaten, impend, increase, collect, form, gather, grow.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Am I not a member of the consulting commission?” Mere Lefrancois looked at him for a few moments, and ended by saying with a smile— “That’s another pair of shoes!
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The trade also of Doerstadt prospered by the change; Christian merchants flocked thither in greater numbers, and with greater confidence, and thus helped forward the work of Anskar and his colleagues.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“Clever!” cries Mr. Frank, “he ought to be horsewhipped within an inch of his life.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

Early in the fourth century (B.C. 335) Tyre was the seat of a synod or council, called to consider charges made against the great Athanasius, 14484 who was taxed with cruelty, impiety, and the use of magical arts.
— from History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson

In compliance with this request, Captain C. M. Morris was ordered to relieve him.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

Then I ran away and Clarke caught me.
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

All day she had seen, here and there along the street, little forlorn and ragged ones, straying about aimlessly, as if by any chance, a scrap of Christmas cheer might even fall to them, if only they kept out in the midst of it.
— from Faith Gartney's Girlhood by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

I like even more to think of the same will giving rein to anger, of a converse cry: 'Commit melodrama!
— from A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

Captain Cook makes frequent mention of it as the ceremonial greeting among islands he visited.
— from Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Garrick Mallery

Well, these seemed to me always of the essence of the story, which is the story of a cause célébre ; moreover, they are the justification of my inventions; if these men went so far (granting Davie sprung on them) would they not have gone so much further?
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson