For with a wonderful instinctive cunning, she kept silent and allowed me to glorify her; to mistake my own visions, thoughts, and feelings for hers.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

ort , a point, limit, district, Icel. oddr , ‘cuspis;’ see Kluge.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

So settled to business, and at noon with my wife to the Wardrobe, and there dined, and staid talking all the afternoon with my Lord, and about four o’clock took coach with my wife and Lady, and went toward my house, calling at my Lady Carteret’s, who was within by chance (she keeping altogether at Deptford for a month or two), and so we sat with her a little.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And right as Beaumains overtook the damosel, right so came Sir Kay and said, Beaumains, what, sir, know ye not me?
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

I myself can scarcely keep my eyes open and the dog is asleep already."
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

There was a deafening roar, interspersed with whistles and a shrill childish shout: “Kashtanka!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The person whom she called 'St. Katherine' was obviously in the castle and able to communicate with the prisoner: this was not difficult, for the evidence shows that there was a concealed opening between Joan's room and the next.
— from The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

By Agnes Carr Sage. KATIE ROBERTSON.
— from Marjorie Dean, High School Senior by Josephine Chase

Although she had a very good mother, Uncheedah was her efficient teacher and chaperon Such knowledge as my grandmother deemed suitable to a maiden was duly impressed upon her susceptible mind.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

A noble woman, a Christian Cornelia, she knew how to turn these troubles into lessons for her son; and a more genial, lovable “great man” than Lamartine has seldom claimed our homage, notwithstanding the foibles which necessarily qualify our admiration.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Charles should know as much, He too has children!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Metals it is true are still unknown, but side by side with tools, which are merely chipped or roughly cut, we find for the first time hatchets, celts, small knife-blades, and arrow-heads admirably polished by the long-continued rubbing of one stone on another.
— from Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples by Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de