He likes a boggy acre, A floor too cool for corn.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

That is a virtue on which great statesmen do not perhaps pique themselves so much; but it is somewhat extraordinary, that he should stake on a very poor calculation of chances, all credit for care, for accuracy, and for knowledge of the subject of which he treats.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

A long vowel preceding unsyllabic i̭ or ṷ followed by a consonant is shortened: as, gaudeō for *gāudeō (cf. gāvīsus , 111 ); claudo for clāudō (cf. clāṷis , 111 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Taught school and conducted a hospital during exile, patients coming from China coast ports for treatment.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

This evening news comes for certain that the Dutch are with their fleete before Dover, and that it is expected they will attempt something there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

CARWHITCHET, quip, pun. CASAMATE, casemate, fortress. CASE, a pair. CASE, "in—," in condition.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

While he was thus reasoning and resolving with himself, a slardral , or gentleman-usher, came from court, commanding my master to carry me immediately thither, for the diversion of the queen and her ladies.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

[Italian]; circulation, indiction[obs3], edition; hue and cry. publicity, notoriety, currency, flagrancy, cry, bruit, hype; vox populi; report &c (news) 532.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The burning of the Globe Theatre—an event due, by the way, to the results of the passion for illusion that distinguished Shakespeare’s stage-management—has unfortunately robbed us of many important documents; but in the inventory, still in existence, of the costume-wardrobe of a London theatre in Shakespeare’s time, there are mentioned particular costumes for cardinals, shepherds, kings, clowns, friars, and fools; green coats for Robin Hood’s men, and a green gown for Maid Marian; a white and gold doublet for Henry the Fifth, and a robe for Longshanks; besides surplices, copes, damask gowns, gowns of cloth of gold and of cloth of silver, taffeta gowns, calico gowns, velvet coats, satin coats, frieze coats, jerkins of yellow leather and of black leather, red suits, grey suits, French Pierrot suits, a robe ‘for to goo invisibell,’ which seems inexpensive at £3, 10s., and four incomparable fardingales—all of which show a desire to give every character an appropriate dress.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

We must have cold tongue and chicken, French chocolate and ice cream, besides.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

His own education had been very limited; he knew no modern language but his own, and I believe he knew no Greek whatever, and only just enough Latin for a solicitor, which in those days was not very much; but if he was a Philistine in neglecting his own culture, he had not the real Philistine's contempt for culture in others and desired to have me well taught; yet there was nobody near at hand to continue my higher education properly, and I was likely, had we lived long together at Shaw, to become like the regular middle-class Englishmen of those days, who from sheer want of preliminary training were impervious to the best influences of literature and art.
— from Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 by Eugénie Hamerton

corona f. crown. coronar crown.
— from El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda

The usual campaign for captives was successfully directed against Atlixco, and foreign nobles from hostile as well as friendly provinces came in crowds by invitation to witness the coronation ceremonies.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

I spent my last ten cents for crackers to-day.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896 by Various

Flowers dance across the walls, Mother's face seems far away, She's the audience, I'm the play, She will clap for curtain calls.
— from Songs for Parents by John Chipman Farrar

A wondrous attractive meal even in so far as judged by our simple lights, but with its garnishments a positive feast, for withal the table was strewn with dishes of burnt almonds, crystallised fruits, chocolates and such toothsome kickshaws, whilst the unstinted supply of champagne which accompanied the courses was succeeded by a noble array of liqueur bottles from which choice could be made in the drinking of toasts.
— from Scott's Last Expedition Volume I Being the journals of Captain R. F. Scott by Robert Falcon Scott

While everything else has changed, Fairview church is just the same, and every night when the wind blows furiously, I imagine that the great bell is tolling a muffled requiem for their unfortunate history from the rickety tower; every bright day I think that the birds are singing softly over their graves, and in their quiet corner of the yard, close by the path leading toward the old house where they first met, there is a willow that weeps for them in summer, and tenderly covers their graves with its leaves in winter.
— from The Story of a Country Town by E. W. (Edgar Watson) Howe

With a bare glance at his subordinates, he came forward cordially to take Cavendish's hand, and then, [Pg 246] opening the door of his private office, motioned him to enter first.
— from The Lieutenant-Governor: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl