'Good lack,' repeated Bruno, 'can it be?' 'Certes,' replied Calandrino, 'it is so, more by token that I am undone and know not how I shall return home.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

The speaker tries to correct it by changing a subsequent "ei" or "eu" to "oi."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

In 1878 the English began the propagation of coffee in British Central Africa, but it was not until 1901 that coffee cultivation was introduced into British East Africa from Réunion.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

12 herein is a representation of a "Helmschau," where the examination of the crests is being carried on.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Ct = Charters, wills and other like documents, as contained in BC, CC, EC, KC and TC.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I visited the ti mand near Paikāra by appointment, and, on arrival near the mand, found the two palols, well-built men aged about thirty and fifty, clad in black cloths, and two kaltmokhs, youths aged [ 135 ] about eight and ten, naked save for a loin-cloth, seated on the ground, awaiting our arrival.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Only where there is conflict is behavior conscious and self-conscious; only here are the conditions for rational conduct.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Should he, however, fall back into Richmond, I would follow up and make a junction with his (General Butler's) army on the James River; that, could I be certain he would be able to invest Richmond on the south side, so as to have his left resting on the James, above the city, I would form the junction there; that circumstances might make this course advisable anyhow; that he should use every exertion to secure footing as far up the south side of the river as he could, and as soon as possible after the receipt of orders to move; that if he could not carry the city, he should at least detain as large a force there as possible.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The wísh is from wásh, a lengthened form of wash, an affix of common use to express similitude; or the long vowel in wásh may by a figure of speech, called Imála, be changed into the í of wísh.
— from The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell

The whites found the broad track they made in coming in, but could not find where they had gone out, each wily redskin then covering his own trail, and the whole number apparently breaking up into several parties.
— from The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt

( 194 ), to choke (intr.), be choked ;
— from A Gothic Grammar, with selections for reading and a glossary by Wilhelm Braune

The daughter puffs a delicate cigarette, while the mother smokes a huge cigar, it being considered a disgrace for the young ladies to use—only cigarettes.
— from Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

We need not recount the almost vertiginous growth of the German banking system, with its tendency towards a narrow concentration, its bold conduct and control of German industry and its establishment of { 121} branch organisations in the countries to be invaded.
— from American World Policies by Walter E. (Walter Edward) Weyl

Our conversation, I believe, commenced upon the character of King William; and I will confess to you, that estimating the two characters in moral worth, I would infinitely prefer being the exiled and Catholic James than the unnatural and crowned King William.”
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

Singapore is chiefly inhabited by Chinese and Malays, and contains but few European families.
— from A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas by Fanny Loviot

Could it be consistent with humanity, much less with the mercy of an all powerful God, to put to death all the boys of a nation, merely because they might in time revenge the insolent invaders of their country?
— from Watson Refuted Being an Answer to the Apology for the Bible, in a Series of Letters to the Bishop Of Llandaff by Samuel W. (Samuel Ward) Francis

And so, as he confided to his assistant with great complacency, it became clear as daylight that the largest percentage of recoveries, their rapidity, and as a natural corollary the incidence of mildness in the attack itself, seemed in connection with the position of the cots.
— from In the Guardianship of God by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Outside the Bradford Daily Telegraph and the Yorkshire Daily Observer offices the latest intelligence was posted, the streets being blocked by the eager people who had come in by car from Manningham, Heaton, Tyersall, Dudley Hill, Eccleshill, Idle, Thackley, and other places.
— from The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London by William Le Queux