“No, indeed, thank you, Mrs. Poyser,” said the captain, looking eagerly round the kitchen, as if his eye were seeking something it could not find.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

-co- , -cin- , -lo- , -er- , -ro- , -to- , &c.: as, -co- : albi-cāre , be white ( *albi-co- ); velli-cāre , pluck ( *velli-co- , plucker ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But as the word peace is employed in connection with things in this world in which certainly life eternal has no place, we have preferred to call the end or supreme good of this city life eternal rather than peace.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

It makes his colour look even richer than before."
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Please telegraph yes or no to Coburg Lodge, Emilia Road, Tulse Hill.' To think over this letter Mumford missed his ordinary train.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

Between these two points there runs a dark curved line, exactly representing the midrib of a leaf, and from this radiate on each side a few oblique marks, which well imitate the lateral veins.
— from Birds and Nature, Vol. 12 No. 3 [August 1902] Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

But our Poet , 137 png 47 above such considerations, leaves every reader to choose his own ingredients, and sweeten them to his own liking; wisely foreseeing, no doubt, that the more palatable each had rendered them to his own taste, the more he would be affected at their approaching loss.
— from Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning by George Canning

Chapter LII Ellen resolved that she would say as little as possible about the trouble at home that night.
— from The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

The lawyer will find in its pages the germs of our common law, especially relating to land; and the ethnologist or political philosopher will meet with much assistance in his inquiries into the early social condition of mankind."— Spectator.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 70, March 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various