As those arts therefore are most advantageous to their respective professors which are farthest distant from wisdom, so are those persons incomparably most happy that have least to do with any at all, but jog on in the common road of nature, which will never mislead us, except we voluntarily leap over those boundaries which she has cautiously set to our finite beings.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

'Twas nothing but that she could not bear to hear Charles reflected on notwithstanding their difference.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

M. Madier de Montgau, judge of the cour royale of Nismes, and president of the cour d'assizes of the Gard and Vaucluse, upon one occasion felt himself compelled to break up the court, rather than take the deposition of that notorious and sanguinary monster Truphemy:
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Beards & Cummings, coffee roasters of New York City, established a branch in Cleveland under the management of Alvan Stephens in 1855.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

(It is of course possible that parts of the rose may be red and parts not red, or that the rose may be of a shade of pink which we hardly know whether to call red or not; but in the former case it is plain that the rose as a whole is not red, while in the latter case
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Oesfyr, a. short-lived Oesi, v. to pass through life; to live Oesiad, n. a passing through life, an existing Oesol, a. relating to age, aged Oesran, n. assigned period of life Oesred, n. course of existenct Oestad, Oestadol, a. constant, constantly, always Oethi, v. to render intense Of, n. atoms; particles; motes Of, a. elementary; crude; raw Ofawd, n. a making crude; a mouldering Ofedd, n. elementary state Ofer, a. waste, vain, useless, idle Ofera, v. to waste; to act idly Oferddyn, n. a dissipated man, a spendthrift Oferedd, n. frivolity; dissipation Oferfost, n. a vain boasting Ofergais, n. a fruitless attempt Ofergoel, superstition Oferiaith, n. useless idle talk Oferlaeth, n. waste milk Oferwaith, n. a useless work Oferwas, n. a worthless chap Oferwr, n. an idler Oferymgais, n. an idle attempt Ofiad, n. a decomposing Ofiannu, v. to render friable Ofiant, n. a reducing to atoms Oflyd, a. decomposing, jumble Ofn, n. fear, dread, timidity Ofnâd, an intimidation Ofnadwy, a. terrible, frightful Ofnâu, v. to become fearful Ofnedig, a. intimidated, scared Ofnedd, n. fearfulness Ofni, v. to fear to terrify Ofniad, n. a dreading, a fearing, intimidation Ofnid, n. terror, dread, fear Ofnog, a. fearful, timorous Ofnol, a. tending to frighten Ofnus, a. fearful, timorous Ofnusrwydd, n. fearfulness Ofydd, n. philosopher Ofyddfardd, n. scientific bard Offeiriad, n. minister, priest Offeiriadaeth, n. a priesthood Offeiriadol, a. priestly Offeiriadu, v. to minister Offer, n. implements; gear Offeren, n. sacred service; mass Offerena, v. to celebrate mass Offereniad, n. a saying of mass Offerenol, a. relating to the mass Offerenu, v. to perform mass Offerynol, a. instrumental Offeiriannu, v. to act as agent Offeru, v. to equip, to furnish Offeryn, n. instrument, a tool Offrwm, n. an offering, sacrifice Offrymiad, n. a sacrificing Offrymu, v. to sacrifice, to offer Og, n. what is full of motion or life; youth; a harrow: a. apt to move; youthful Ogaid, n. a stroke of a harrow Oged, n. what stirs; a harrow Ogedu, v. to use a harrow Ogfaen, n. hip, fruit of briers Ogi, v. to use the harrow Ogiad, n. a harrowing Ogof, n. a cave; a den Ogotog, a. full of caves Ongl, n. a corner, an angle Ongli, v. to make angular Ongliad, n. forming angles Onglog, a. having angles Ohonof, a pronominal preposition, from me, of me, out of me Oi, v. to proceed; to come forward: interj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

She thought they were commercial travellers—‘drummers’ was the word she used—and all through dinner she tried to prove that England, our great and beloved country, rests on nothing but commerce.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

On this wise, Bruno, with the aid of Buffalmacco, who had a hand in the matter, kept the game afoot and had the greatest sport in the world with Calandrino's antics, causing him give them bytimes, as at his mistress's request, now an ivory comb, now a purse and anon a knife and such like toys, for which they brought him in return divers paltry counterfeit rings of no value, with which he was vastly delighted; and to boot, they had of him, for their pains, store of dainty collations and other small matters of entertainment, so they might be diligent about his affairs.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

With the strong a priori probability that flows in from 1 and 3 on the correspondent historical evidence of 2, no man can refuse or neglect to make the experiment without guilt.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In the meantime I was the constant recipient of numerous presents of all kinds, and the invitations that I received to dinners were far too many for any professional golfer to accept.
— from The Complete Golfer by Harry Vardon

He was a great bather, and scrupulously clean in all his habits, abstemious in his food, and careless in what it consisted, rarely or never touching wine, and noting sobriety as the highest of qualities when describing any new people.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude

I write only to say that I entirely appreciate your answer to my objection on the score of the comparative rareness of Northern warm-temperate forms in the Southern hemisphere.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

"My sister and I shall, of course, remove our names from the Club."
— from The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

A striped-bass chum rod of natural bamboo is a good and serviceable tool for the work, with multiplying reel and braided linen line, to which is affixed a Sproat hook, No. 3-0, on gimp snell, by a brass box-swivel.
— from Bass, Pike, Perch, and Others by James A. (James Alexander) Henshall

Still there were grave objections to this combined rule of numbers and wealth as applied to the slaveholding States.
— from History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 2 With Notices of Its Principle Framers by George Ticknor Curtis

The critical reviews of Nuttall and Jepson (1909), Howard (1911), and Graham-Smith (1913) should be consulted by the student of the subject.
— from Handbook of Medical Entomology by O. A. (Oskar Augustus) Johannsen

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/05/biztech/articles/14soft.html EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WANTS ISPs TO SPY The European Parliament last Friday passed the Lawful Interception of Communications council resolution on new technologies — known as Enfopol — which requires Internet service providers and telephone companies to provide law-enforcement agencies with full-time, real-time access to Internet transmissions, even those traversing along multiple networks.
— from Project Gutenberg Newsletters 1999 Thirteen Letters: December 1998 to December 1999 by Michael Hart

Whether the city resists or not, those black villains’ thirst for slaughter will not very easily be appeased.”
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen