unscortende not failing , LkLR 12 33 . unscrȳdan (ē 2 , ī 2 ) to put off ( clothes ), undress, strip, deprive of , Æ. unscrȳdd pp.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Lotty reported that they had eaten "a much, and greatly laughed, and the master bid her throw away all the sweet stuff, and hide the pots." Meg longed to go and tell Mother, but a sense of shame at her own short-comings, of loyalty to John, "who might be cruel, but nobody should know it," restrained her, and after a summary cleaning up, she dressed herself prettily, and sat down to wait for John to come and be forgiven.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I had never seen that Frenchman before, and at the end of an hour we had done with each other for life: he did not seem particularly talkative either; he was a quiet, massive chap in a creased uniform, sitting drowsily over a tumbler half full of some dark liquid.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

So home and to dinner, and after dinner all the afternoon got my wife and boy to read to me, and at night W. Batelier comes and sups with us; and, after supper, to have my head combed by Deb., which occasioned the greatest sorrow to me that ever I knew in this world, for my wife, coming up suddenly, did find me embracing the girl....
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Le centre culturel inclut une bibliothèque multimédia, un cinéma, une salle de conférence et un restaurant.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

And about the beginning of November it was sold ten ounces and a half again; the like of which, I believe, was never heard of in any city, under so dreadful a visitation, before.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Through the varying features and expression of those five faces could be marked a certain steadfastness of chin, underlying surface distinctions, marking a racial stamp, too prehistoric to trace, too remote and permanent to discuss—the very hall-mark and guarantee of the family fortunes.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

Every movement of the water calls up slender, delicate confervæ , and pale and coloured luminariæ .
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

Louis looked surprised and angry; he had never seen Camilla under such deep excitement.
— from Minnie's Sacrifice by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

When David Hume's housemaid was wroth because somebody chalked up "St David's" on his house, the philosopher is said to have remarked,—" Never mind, lassie, better men than I have been made saints of before now."
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Thomas Henry Huxley

There came up some dispute in the Cabinet as to the disfranchisement of East Retford and Penryn, in the course of which Mr. Huskisson resigned.
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

“Cheer up, cheer up!” said Dick, “I know I am a brute to have made you all so unhappy, but when I come home again I intend to turn over a new leaf.”
— from The Rival Crusoes by William Henry Giles Kingston

When a devout person has a new carriage built, it is sent to wait at the door of one of the churches, or convents, until some dying person may happen to send to that church, or convent, for the last offices of religion: and until the carriage has been blessed by carrying the host, the owner would feel himself unblessed in entering it.
— from Spain in 1830, vol. 2 by Henry D. (Henry David) Inglis

But do not let us condescend upon such details.
— from The Call of the Town: A Tale of Literary Life by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir