Many additions, much increase of madness, folly, vanity, should Democritus observe, were he now to travel, or could get leave of Pluto to come see fashions, as Charon did in Lucian to visit our cities of Moronia Pia, and Moronia Felix: sure I think he would break the rim of his belly with laughing.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[ in- , not , + cognitus , known ], unknown in-colô, -ere, -uî , ——, [ in , in , + colô , dwell ], inhabit; live incolumis, -e , adj. sound, safe, uninjured, imharmed in-crêdibilis, -e , adj.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

saw a vast number of buffaloe feeding in every direction arround us in the plains, others coming down in large herds to water at the river; the fragments of many carcases of these poor anamals daily pass down the river, thus mangled I pesume in decending those immence cataracts above us.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Isabel’s chief dread in life at this period of her development was that she should appear narrow-minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should really be so.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Even if we obtain a series of meanings corresponding to each term of the original text, there is often considerable difficulty in linking these meanings together.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But now he has strucken me, I could do it less nor ever, for it would be getting other men to take up my quarrel.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It is just possible, by the theory, that one of two living forms might have descended from the other; for instance, a horse from a tapir; and in this case DIRECT intermediate links will have existed between them.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

They were against war, believed in collectivism, demanded international labor legislation, the eight-hour day, the "day of rest," etc.
— from Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel Peter Orth

A. Christ descended into Limbo to preach to the souls who were in prison—that is, to announce to them the joyful tidings of their redemption.
— from A Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Anonymous

One of the company declared it looked very much like Greek.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Synonyms: cant, dip, incline, list, slope, careen, heel over, lean, slant, tilt.
— from English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

But she had opened eyes in my soul that had been blind before, and had shown me lives seared with pain and sin and scorched with the fires of passion that were yet beautiful; of men who could fight down the beasts of temptation and conquer the devils of vice; of men who could forget self-interest to hold out a helping hand to the weak and the stumbling; of men who could die in lone, silent places so that others might live in safety and security; of women who could offer their all for the public good, and lose it with a smile on their lips.
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes