At length, doubling the point, at about two leagues from the land, I saw plainly land on the other side, to seaward; then I concluded, as it was most certain indeed, that this was the Cape de Verde, and those the islands called, from thence, Cape de Verde Islands.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

as good, so good Daer, n. fixed state: a. slow Daearawd, n. a claiming; a fixing Daered, n. appurtenance; mortuary Daeargri, n. a doleful cry Daeriad, n. a fixing, setting Daerodi, v. to decree Daeru, v. to fix, to decree Dafad, n. a sheep, ewe Dafaden, n. wart, schirrus Dafadenog, a. full of warts Dafadenu, v. to grow warty Dafates, n. flock of sheep Dafniad, n. a dropping Dafnog, a. having drops Dafnol, a. trickling, dropping Dafnu, v. to trickle, to drop Dafyn, n. a drop Dagr, n. a tear, a drop; knife Dagreuo, v. to lachrymate Dagreuol, a. lachrymal Dagru, v. to shed tears Dai, n. that causes, the Deity Daiar, n. the earth; earth Daiawn, n. good: a. good Daif, n. singe, blast Daig, n. what is effused Dail, n. leaves; foliage Daill, n. product, issue Dain, a. pure; fine; delicate Daioni, n. goodness; good Daionus, a. beneficial, good Dair, n. an effusion, a song Dais, n. a wish, a desire Daith, n. flash, blaze Dal, n. a hold, catch; a stop: v. to hold; to bear, to catch, to detain, to arrest Dâl, n. a leaf, a lamina Dala, v. to hold, to bear, catch Dalbren, n. holdfast Dalen, n. a leaf, a lobe Dalenog, a. foliacious, leaved Daleniad, n. foliation Dalenu, v. to foliate Dalfa, n. a capture, a hold Daliad, n. holding Daliaden, n. support, prop Daliedydd, n. detainer Daliwr, n. holder Dall, n. blind one: a. blind Dalliad, n. a blinding Dallineb, n. blindness Dallineb, n. blind worm Dallt, n. the understanding: v. to understand Dallu, v. to grow blind Dam, a prefix to denote being about, or circumscribe Damaethu, v. to be husbanding or cultivating Damblygu, v. to fold round Dam
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

"Et dist Messires Marc : 'Encore une foiz, biaus sires, li Bacsi de Tebet et de Kescemir et li prestre de Seilan , qui si dient que l'arme vivant doie trespasser par tous cez changes de vestemens; si com se treuve escript ou livre Maistre Rusticien que Sagamoni Borcan mourut iiij vint et iiij foiz et tousjourz resuscita, et à chascune foiz d'une diverse manière de beste, et
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

C. de Verb.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Thus the Cardinal de Vitry is fain to say the creature " profert ex cute quasi quamdam lanam de quâ
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

For, evermore in the government of God, good groweth out of evil: and, whether man note the fact or not, Providence, with secret care, doth vindicate itself.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

If they started shelling from the Château de Vicoigne, they were likely to continue shelling from that point.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

“Perhaps—perhaps Madre will come down,” Vere whispered.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

Many of the “humpback oxen” were seen, of which some of the men may have remembered Cabeza de Vaca’s description.
— from The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1. by George Parker Winship

The æsthetic sense of children develops very early.
— from The Nervous Child by Hector Charles Cameron

Some of the commonest trees of this period, such as the sigillariæ, which united the structure of ferns and of cycadeæ, departed very widely from all known living types.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I didn't really mind his throwing over his master and taking possession of the rug in my sitting-room, but I certainly did very keenly resent his behaviour towards the birds every morning at breakfast-time.
— from Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

His principle was, money first, carte de visite afterward; and if, perchance, any visitor took off his carte de visite without paying for it, he would rush forward, screaming, to the length of his tether, to prevent this irregular transaction, and would not cease his noisy expressions till the money was paid down.
— from The Country of the Dwarfs by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

"Let us come back," he said, thinking in his heart, perhaps, that he could do very well without my sympathy; "my proceedings only bear upon your case in an odd sort of way, which may come to nothing.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore