The niece and housekeeper were present at the conversation and could not find words enough to express their thanks to God at seeing their master so clear in his mind; the curate, however, changing his original plan, which was to avoid touching upon matters of chivalry, resolved to test Don Quixote's recovery thoroughly, and see whether it were genuine or not; and so, from one subject to another, he came at last to talk of the news that had come from the capital, and, among other things, he said it was considered certain that the Turk was coming down with a powerful fleet, and that no one knew what his purpose was, or when the great storm would burst; and that all Christendom was in apprehension of this, which almost every year calls us to arms, and that his Majesty had made provision for the security of the coasts of Naples and Sicily and the island of Malta.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She would no doubt immediately have begun to talk of cuckoos, incoherently, unrestrainably and deplorably, if she had been in the condition of nerves and shyness she was in last time she saw Mrs. Fisher.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Before I went to the office my wife’s brother did come to us, and we did instruct him to go to Gosnell’s and to see what the true matter is of her not coming, and whether she do intend to come or no, and so I to the office; and this morning come Sir G. Carteret to us (being the first time we have seen him since his coming from France): he tells us, that the silver which he received for Dunkirk did weigh 120,000 weight.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To have the several elements which compose our names, as Sydenham expresses it, repeated a thousand years hence, is a gift beyond the power of title and wealth; and is scarce to be purchased, unless by the sword and the pen.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

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

In a soft and luxurious climate, the degenerate children of the companions of Noureddin and Saladin were incapable of resisting the flower of European chivalry: they triumphed by the arms of their slaves or Mamalukes, the hardy natives of Tartary, who at a tender age had been purchased of the Syrian merchants, and were educated in the camp and palace of the sultan.
— 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

Who, capable of no articulate sound, Mars all things with his imitative lisp, How he would place his hand beside his ear,
— from Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) by William Wordsworth

On observing the wretched condition of Nobin, about seven or eight ryots of Shamanagara have all given up, and all are doing exactly as your Honour is ordering them.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

On salmon rivers, when the fish begin to run up the stream in spring, they are received with much deference by tribes who, like the Indians of the Pacific Coast of North America, subsist largely upon a fish diet.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

It was the strangest combination of north and south that could be imagined.
— from The Princess of the School by Angela Brazil

It required once more a critical separation of the spheres of validity of the respective conceptions of nature and spirit, such as Kant attempted, before full scope could be given to mechanical interpretation on the one side, and teleology restricted to the domain of spirit only on the other.
— from Giordano Bruno by J. Lewis (James Lewis) McIntyre

“Come out now, and see the maid’s sitting room,” cried Dorothy.
— from Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

" "Tell me," she continued, inclining her head, and permitting the sneer to become positive--"tell me, O prince of Jerusalem, where is he, that son of the carpenter of Nazareth, and son not less of God, from whom so lately such mighty things were expected?" He waved his hand impatiently, and replied, "I am not his keeper.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

In the afternoon of this day (Sunday) we traveled over another sandy plain to the river, eight miles, where we camped over night and started Monday morning all hearty and well.
— from Extracts from the Diary of William C. Lobenstine, December 31, 1851-1858 by William C. (William Christian) Lobenstine

On the other hand, if the powers which it has are recognized but not accounted for, it seems to be set outside the confines of nature and science.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

24 s. LOWE’S ( Sir Hudson ) HISTORY OF THE CAPTIVITY OF NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

Let us now see whether the vast continent of North and South America will bring us any nearer to our goal.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

The bulk of the king's army was in the neighbourhood of Dieppe, where they had been recently strengthened by twenty companies of Netherlanders and Scotchmen brought by Count Philip Nassau.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The whole coast of North and South Carolina, of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, with vast portions of the interior, including many impregnable positions, is ours.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various