Who wishes you would?” “The servants—and of course Dr. Craven because he would get Misselthwaite and be rich instead of poor.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In a full chase upon a burning scent: Nay, being wak’d, imagin’d stags pursue, As if they had them in their real view, Till, having shook themselves more broad awake, They do at last discover the mistake:” the watch-dogs, that we often observe to snarl in their dreams, and afterwards bark out, and start up as if they perceived some stranger at hand; the stranger that their soul discerns is a man spiritual and imperceptible, without dimension, without colour, and without being:— Consueta domi catulorum blanda propago Degere, spe levem ex oculis volucremque soporem Discutere, et corpus de terra corripere instant, Proinde quasi ignotas facies atque ora tuantur.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When Captain Dobbin came back in the afternoon to these people—which he did with a great deal of sympathy for them—it did his heart good to see how Amelia had grown young again—how she laughed, and chirped, and sang familiar old songs at the piano, which were only interrupted by the bell from without proclaiming Mr. Sedley's return from the City, before whom George received a signal to retreat.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Here Dr. Okill Stewart, formerly rector of this church, but subsequently of St. George's, Kingston, used occasionally, when visiting York, to officiate—a very tall, benevolent, and fine featured ecclesiastic, with a curious delivery, characterized by unexpected elevations and depressions of the voice irrespective of the matter, accompanied by long closings of the eyes, and then a sudden re-opening of the same.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The Shepherd replied, in a loud voice: “He certainly did come, but he fled to the left,” but he secretly motioned with his eyes towards the right.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

= unwierðe unweorðian (o, u) to slight, treat with contempt, dishonour , CP: (±) become worthless, vile, dishonour oneself .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

“Will you not come down?” cried Blue Beard “One moment longer,” said his wife, and then she cried out: “Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see nobody coming?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Before the wounds of civil discord could be healed, the provinces of Gaul were overwhelmed by a deluge of Barbarians.
— 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

WILLIAM VERBECK, Albany, N.Y. National Scout Commissioner Colonel PETER S. BOMUS, New York City Treasurer GEORGE D. PRATT, Brooklyn, N. Y. MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD COLIN H. LIVINGSTONE, Chairman Daniel Carter Beard Milton A. McRae Mortimer L. Schiff Col. Peter S. Bomus William D. Murray Ernest Thompson Seton B. L. Dulaney George D. Pratt Seth Sprague Terry Lee F. Hanmer Frank Presbrey Adj.-Gen.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

It evidently was widely read for it was condemned donec corrigatur by the Index in 1616 and the mathematical literature of the next half century contains many allusions to his remarks on Job: IX: 6; "Who shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.
— from The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson

And if, nevertheless, considerable differences can be observed in the teaching of the priests of Memphis and Thebes, they are sufficiently explained by the mode in which religion and state were developed in Egypt, and the rival position of the two great centres of ecclesiastical life.
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Max Duncker

—An acute, infectious, and contagious disease, characterized by an inflammation of one or both of the parotid glands. Cause.
— from Anatomy and Embalming A Treatise on the Science and Art of Embalming, the Latest and Most Successful Methods of Treatment and the General Anatomy Relating to this Subject by Albert John Nunnamaker

But nothing less than a complete and conclusive deliverance can be the legitimate end of the experience of the Christian life here.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

The conversation flagged, and recourse was had to music— "Piozzi, a first-rate singer, whose voice was deliciously sweet, and whose expression was perfect, sung in his very best manner, from his desire to do honour to il Capo di Casa ; but il Capo di Casa and his family alone did justice to his strains: neither the Grevilles nor the Thrales heeded music beyond what belonged to it as fashion: the expectations of the Grevilles were all occupied by Dr. Johnson; and those of the Thrales by the authoress of the Ode to Indifference.
— from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi

(No. dirty ____) 4 53 LONG HAIRS are______kept short on belly, flanks, udder and tail 1 54 UDDER AND TEATS of cows are______thoroughly brushed and wiped with a clean damp cloth before milking 3 55 ALL FEED is______of good quality and distillery waste or any substance in a state of putrefaction is______fed 2 56
— from Outlines of dairy bacteriology, 10th edition A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by E. G. (Edwin George) Hastings

As Rob had hinted the night was really at an end, and in the east the first peep of coming dawn could be seen in the brightening sky.
— from The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields by John Henry Goldfrap

In this charge Acting-Sergeant Bukari of B Company displayed conspicuous bravery, which was subsequently rewarded by a second Distinguished Conduct Medal.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir