Our reputation, our character, our name are considerations of vast weight and importance; and even the other causes of pride; virtue, beauty and riches; have little influence, when not seconded by the opinions and sentiments of others.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

In case of need a Colonel of Conspiracies can become a General of Ambuscades.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

'Sir, (continued he,) there is all the difference in the world between characters of nature and characters of manners; and THERE is the difference between the characters of Fielding and those of Richardson.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The change of names and confusion of families was corrected eventually by law.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

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

C o nzáre, as C o nciáre, &c. C o nziér o , as C o nciér o .
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Among the absentees compelled to contribute to the expedition accompanying the Prince, are mentioned Maria, Countess of Norfolk, Agnes, Countess of Pembroke, Margery de Boos, Anna le Despenser, and other noble ladies, who, by a strange recurrence, represented in this age the five co-heiresses of the first Earl Marshal, granddaughters of Eva McMurrogh.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee

C o ntralẻttera, a countermand or letter written against another.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

It is a civil offence, not a criminal one."
— from Marietta: A Maid of Venice by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

C o nocchiáre, as C o nnocchiáre.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

C o nfederánza, as C o nfederati ó ne. C o nfederáre, to confederate.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

C o nnẻssità, as C o nnẻssi ó ne. C o nnẻss o , connexed or ioyned vnto.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

C o ncordiáre, as C o ncordáre.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

C o nuitánti, as C o nuitáti.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio