It was a genial spring day when they landed at St. Louis; the birds were singing, the blossoms of peach trees in city garden plots, made the air sweet, and in the roar and tumult on the long river levee they found an excitement that accorded with their own hopeful anticipations.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

= lǣfer lāc nf. play, sport : (†) strife, battle : sacrifice, offering , Æ, CP: gift, present , Mt ; Æ: booty , B : (†) message .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Dreȝ , adj. continuous, great, powerful, MD; dryȝ , patient, S2.—Icel.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

As is manifestly apparent in pease, beans, fasels, pomegranates, peaches, cottons, gourds, pumpions, melons, corn, lemons, almonds, walnuts, filberts, and chestnuts; as likewise in all plants, slips, or sets whatsoever, wherein it is plainly and evidently seen, that the sperm and semence is more closely veiled, overshadowed, corroborated, and thoroughly harnessed, than any other part, portion, or parcel of the whole.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

SYN: Dramatic, scenic, melodramatic, showy, ceremonious, gesticulatory, pompous, meretricious, tinsel. ANT: Chaste, genuine, simple, unaffected, quiet, subdued, mannerless, plain.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The good woman set oat-bread before me and a cold grouse, patting my shoulder and smiling to me all the time, for she had no English; and the old gentleman (not to be behind) brewed me a strong punch out of their country spirit.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

'My God, Mrs. Fisher, if I could get Paul Morpeth to paint her like that, the picture'd appreciate a hundred per cent in ten years.'
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I know you have to work, but so you did then— Claude Gueux , Philosophie Mêlée , Les Voix Intérieures , Les Chants du Crépuscule ,
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

In the Federal Constitution of the United States, by which the central government possesses more real force, this evil is still extremely sensible.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

They had already gained over to their interest count Gyllenburgh, prime minister and president of the chancery in Sweden.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Ashcroft v. ACLU, 2002 U.S. LEXIS 3421 (May 13, 2002) (remanding the case to the Court of Appeals to review the legal and factual bases on which the District Court granted plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction after vacating its opinion that relied on a different ground from the ones used by the District Court).
— from Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) Ruling by United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

For the benefit of physician readers I should like to add that in treating eye strain, conjunctivitis, sties, granulated lids, and eye conditions generally, pressures made with a blunt probe, (see E Fig. 11 ) on the muco-cutaneous margins (where the skin joins the mucous membrane in the nostrils) affects the second division of the ophthalmic nerve, and assists materially in bringing about a favorable influence in eye troubles.
— from Zone Therapy; Or, Relieving Pain at Home by Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers

Until the present century the succeeding generations of the Stanleys took little active interest in national affairs, preferring the quieter and less exciting life of country gentlemen, passing much of their time in Cheshire improving their estates, and spending much of their leisure in the indulgence of their literary tastes.
— from Historic Sites of Lancashire and Cheshire A Wayfarer's Notes in the Palatine Counties, Historical, Legendary, Genealogical, and Descriptive. by James Croston

Nettie has not many things to play with," agreed Nan, "and we can get plenty more.
— from The Bobbsey Twins in the Country by Laura Lee Hope

Chronicle Guidance Publications, Moravia, New York. $0.35.
— from Careers in Atomic Energy by Loyce J. McIlhenny