He destroyed in war ten captains of Norway, and finally approached the island which afterwards had its name from him, meaning to attack the king himself last of all.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

now, at present Origyn, n. a short space Orlais, n. a time-piece, clock Orn, n. a start; push; threat Ornedigaeth, n. a threatening Ornedd, n. a threatening state Ornest, n. tilting, combat, duel Ornestfa, n. place of combat Ornestiad, n. a combating Ornestu, v. to combat, to duel Ornestwr, n. dueller Orni, v. to start, to threaten Oroï, v. to utter; to be uttering Oroïan, n. a jubilation; joy: v. to shout in triumph Os, conj, if Osai, n. sweet juice; cyder Osg, n. what tends out or from Osged, n. a laver, a bason Osgl, n. a branch; a twig Osglen, n. a branch; a twig Osgli, v. to branch; to shoot Osgliad, n. a branching out Osglod, n. a ramification Osglog, a. branchy, branching Osgo, n. obliquity, slope Osgoad, n. a starting aside Osgöedd, n. obliquity; starting Osgöi, v. to go aslant; to start Osgoilyd, a. apt to start aside Osgyd, n. a laver, a bason Osiad, n. a making an essay Osio, v. to offer to do, to essay Ostid, n. epithet for a shield Ostl, n. an open place; inn Ostr, n. what is spread Ostri, n. display, hospitality Oswydd, n. war-horses; cavalry Ow, n. a breathing out; a moan Pa, n. what is in continuity: a. what Pab, n. a father; a pope Pabaidd, a. papal; popish Pabell, n. tent; tabernacle Pabelliad, n. a fixing a tent Pabellu, v. to pitch a tent Pabi, n. the poppy Pabïol, a. papaverous Pabir, n. rushes; rush candles Pablaidd, a. active; nervous Pabledd, a. activity; vigour Pabliad, n. invigoration Pablu, v. to invigorate Pabwyr, n. rushes Pabwyra, v. to gather rushes Pabwyrog, a. full of rushes Pabwyren, n. a single rush Pabwyryn, n. a bullrush Pabydd, n. a papist Pabyddol, a. papistical Pabyddiaeth, n. popery Pâd, n. what keeps together; what contains Padell, n. pan Padellaid, n. a panful Padellan, Padellig, n. a little pan Padellu, v. to form a pan Padd, n. what keeps a course Pae, n. a constraint; a panting Paeled, n. a spread, a plaster; a scull-cap Paen, n. what spreads; peacock Paenes, n. a peahen; a fine girl Paent, n. paint; colour Paentiad, n. a painting Paentiedig, a. painted, coloured Paeol, n. a pail; a pot Paeth, n. concurrence Paff, n. a lump; a hulk Paffiad, n. lumping; thumping Paffio, v. to lump; to thump Pang, n. a convulsion; a pang Pangiad, n. a convulsing Pangol, a. convulsive Pangu, v. to convulse Paham, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Nor do I yet persuade myself that I know why one is one, nor, in a word, why any thing else is produced, or perishes, or exists, according to this method of proceeding; but I mix up another method of my own at random, for this I can on no account give in to."
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

I dread the more the consequences of new attempts, because I know that POWERFUL INDIVIDUALS, in this and in other States, are enemies to a general national government in every possible shape. PUBLIUS 1.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

121 The French ambassadors were the spectators, and had nearly been the victims, of the conspiracy of Nicephorus, and the national hatred.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I triumph’d over Eugenius; but I triumph’d over him as I always do, like a fool.——’Tis my comfort, however, I am not an obstinate one: therefore I define a nose as follows—intreating only beforehand, and beseeching my readers, both male and female, of what age, complexion, and condition soever, for the love of God and their own souls, to guard against the temptations and suggestions of the devil, and suffer him by no art or wile to put any other ideas into their minds, than what I put into 96 my definition—For by the word Nose, throughout all this long chapter of noses, and in every other part of my work, where the word Nose occurs—I declare, by that word I mean a nose, and nothing more, or less.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Yet the image of Christ remained in men's hearts and retained its marvellous authority, so that even now, when so many who call themselves Christians, being pure children of nature, are without the least understanding of what Christianity came to do in the world, they still offer his person and words a sincere if inarticulate worship, trying to transform that sacrificial and crucified spirit, as much as their bungling fancy can, into a patron of Philistia Felix.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

hence, from that place Oddiyno, adv. thence, from that place Oed, n. process of time; time to come; set time; age Oedog, a. full of delay Oedol, a. procrastinating Oedfa, n. a set time; a meeting Oedi, v. to set a time; to delay Oediad, n. a delaying Oediog, a. of long time; aged Oedran, n. age, full age Oedraniad, n. a growing aged Oedranu, v. to grow aged Oedranus, a. stricken in years, aged Oedwr, n. a delayer Oedd, v. was, did exist Oen, n. a lamb Oenaidd, a. like a lamb Oenan, n. a lambkin Oenes, n. an ewe-lamb Oenig, n. little ewe-lamb Oenol, a. belonging to a lamb Oenyn, n. a lambkin, a little lamb Oer, a. cold frigid; repulsive Oeraidd, a. somewhat cold Oerol, a. of a cooling nature Oerdra, n. coldness, frigidity Oerfa, n. cool place Oerfel, n. cold air or weather Oergri, n. a dismal cry Oergwymp, n. a dismal fall Oeri, v. to cool, to chill; to be come cold Oeriad, n. a cooling, a chilling Oerlais, n. a dismal voice Oerlef, n. a dismal moan Oerllyd, a. of cold quality; chilly Oernad, n. a dismal howl Oerni, n. coldness, chillness Oerwaedd, n. a dismal cry Oerwedd, n. a chilling aspect Oerwlyb, a. cold and wet Oerwynt, n. a cold wind Oeryn, n. a cold person Oes, n. an age, period of life.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Cross over, now, and follow along close under the reef—easy water there—not much current.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

And they ran towards each other and took one another's hand, in the great cathedral of nature and poesy, and above them sounded the invisible holy bell; happy spirits surrounded them, singing hallelujahs and rejoicing.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Richard III. and his consort Anne, were crowned with great state at Westminster, 6th of July, 1483; there being an unusual concourse of nobility at this festival, according to Walpole, including three duchesses of Norfolk.
— from Coronation Anecdotes by Giles Gossip

Concessions granted by royal prerogative would mean new force for that prerogative; it would bring with it the increase of personal influence at the expense of the law; it seemed to promise the conciliation of new adherents; and it certainly involved the weakening of the orthodox Churchman as well as the Nonconformist.
— from Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Craik, Henry, Sir

In 1774, the two children of Roux, a Calvinist of Nimes, are carried off.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

Simpson was for a time Town Clerk of Norwich, and his portrait hangs in the Blackfriars Hall.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

From this vast concurrence of evidence, from this uniformity of experience in so many spheres, there arises in the minds of scientific men a conviction, amounting to absolute moral certainty, that the whole course of physical [pg 354] nature is governed by law, that the notion of the perpetual interference of the Deity with some particular classes of its phenomena is false and unscientific, and that the theological habit of interpreting the catastrophes of nature as Divine warnings or punishments, or disciplines, is a baseless and a pernicious superstition.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Leaving the continent of North America, which may be said to terminate at the southern end of Mexico, we enter that extremely irregular portion of land which, now widening, now narrowing again, stretches in a south-easterly direction till it unites with the southern half of the American continent at the Isthmus of Panama.
— from The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

They do not hammer out steps—it is a false notion of rhythm that there is a hammer-stroke on every strong beat—but take a collection of steps, as a singer takes a collection of notes, and calmly and gracefully phrase them, in the manner of a bird beating the air with its wings, rather than that of a blacksmith hammering on his anvil.
— from The Russian Ballet by Ellen Terry

[Pg 257] will take, for he will want, I am sure, a decree of the Senate and a decree of the augurs (we shall be hurried off to Rome or harassed, if we are absent), so that the praetor may hold an election of consuls or name a dictator, both acts unconstitutional.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

They came on, neck and neck, towards us, cheered like mad by their respective supporters, both sides deeming the honour of his form at stake in the event.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Many mothers turned over their children to the care of nurses and the wealthy employed wet-nurses.
— from The Historical Child Paidology; The Science of the Child by Oscar Chrisman