Lafayette coldly whispers it, and coldly asseverates it, to Count d'Estaing at the Dinner-table; and d'Estaing, one of the bravest men, quakes to the core lest some lackey overhear it; and tumbles thoughtful, without sleep, all night.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[A; c] let s.t. fall with a crash either by slamming it down or just dropping it if it is heavy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Leon , sb. lion, S2, C2, WA; leun , S; leoun , S, S2, C2; lyoun , S2; liuns , pl. , S; leuns , S.—AF. liun , OF. leon ; Lat. leonem .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

By ten o’clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

All the rugs in the house had been put in it, and a great many flowers; and when at night she lay down in her snug, wide, very soft bed and covered herself with a silk quilt that smelt of old clothes long stored away, she laughed with pleasure.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And these germs of good are often found to be developed by new circumstances, like stunted trees when transplanted to a better soil.
— from Phaedo by Plato

On the south side of the street is a curious little square brick building with the figure of a Bluecoat boy over the porch, and the inscription on a slab, "The Blue Coat School, built in the year 1709.
— from Westminster by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

St. Christopher le Stocks.
— from The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Isabella M. Holmes

Look here; not to be too personal, I think you are about the shabbiest and most contemptible little shriveled-up reptile that can be imagined.
— from The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut by Mark Twain

Black; head brightly gilded above, clothed with luteous hairs beneath; mystax with some black bristles; 3rd joint of the antennæ nearly linear, conical at the tip, a little longer than the 1st and the 2nd together; thorax with three slender cinereous lines; sides with ochraceous hairs; two humeral testaceous spots; abdomen bluish-black towards the tip; 1st, 2nd, and 3rd segments with ochraceous hairs; legs with gilded hairs and with black bristles; femora incrassated, especially the hind pair; wings blackish, almost limpid for nearly half the length from the base, which is partly blackish; the blackish part emitting some streaks into the limpid part; veins black; halteres testaceous.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

The aim of morality is life, of absolute morality complete life; society is therefore justified in coercing the criminal who breaks through the conditions of life or constrains us to do so.
— from A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Cora May Williams

Its call-note is “ fink-fink ,” and it has a short, cheery little song.
— from Birds useful and birds harmful by Ottó Herman