But Princess Mary experienced a painful rather than a joyful feeling—her mental tranquillity was destroyed, and desires, doubts, self-reproach, and hopes reawoke.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Celui qui possède le plus grand nombre de livres en "droits numériques" vendra le plus de soft, de books, et d'appareils… La concurrence va bientôt faire rage dans le domaine des achats de droits, si elle ne le fait pas déjà.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

A wicked Reynard, chased quite out of breath By the untiring dogs, and dreading death, Saw a tall gallows, where dead badgers hung,
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

ANT: Miss, pass, escape, elude, decline, avoid, disperse, diverge, separate, vary, disagree.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

King Myrkjartan came to his assistance, and they conquered a great part of the country, both Dublin and Dyflinnarskire (Dublin shire).
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

An answer from Horace was both more full, and of more dignity, than any I could have made in my own person; and the example of much greater freedom in so eminent a divine as Dr. Donne, seemed a proof with what indignation and contempt a Christian may treat vice or folly, in ever so low, or ever so high a station.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Toute personne qui remplit des conditions déterminées a droit de se faire inscrire dans l'ordre des avocats.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

The tone of a sound is not altered by the distance of the ear from the sounding body; but the intensity or strength of any sound depends on the force with which the waves of the air strike the ear; and this force is different at different distances; so that a sound which is very loud when we are near the body that produces it, will be weaker if we are further from it, though its tone will suffer no alteration; and the distance may be so great that we cannot hear it at all.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

Day after day Dick sat by the side of his trap, all in the dark and by himself, opening and shutting it, as the corves and rolleys came by, and Samuel worked away as usual with his pick and spade.
— from Taking Tales: Instructive and Entertaining Reading by William Henry Giles Kingston

And he had gone down such steep inclines that he was positive he had descended twice the height of the mountain and must surely come into some valley or other—then suddenly his foot slipped on the needles that cushioned the trail, he fell, just as one does on the ice—only much more softly—and slid on, down and down, deftly steering himself around a bend, and came to a stop against a dead log just in time to escape bumping over a flight of rocky steps, neatly built by Nature in the side of the mountain and which led to a grassy terrace, open on one side to the wide sweep of valley and surrounding mountains and closed in on the other by leaning, whispering birches.
— from Highacres by Jane Abbott

Indeed, so utterly wanting in decency and decorum did she appear at this particular epoch of her existence that the heart of her only aunt—her father's sister—was stirred to its depths.
— from Airy Fairy Lilian by Duchess

In spite ob de whip many hab to be carried up on deck, and dere de sailor men lay 'em down and trow cold water ober
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

duck quack, deuks, ducks, dictionar', dictionary, didna, did not, differ, difference, also differ din, sound; din, dingin', overcoming; wearying; vexing, dings, overcomes; wearies; vexes, dinna, do not, dinna fling the calf efter the coo, don't give up, also baby/bathwater dirt, worthless persons or things, term of contempt dis, does, disappint, disappoint, discoorse, discourse, disna, does not, dissiples, disciples, dis't, does it, div, do, dod!, God!
— from Sir Gibbie by George MacDonald

These have their seats so fixed upon hinges that those who sit in them can only maintain their position by balancing themselves with care, and resting their elbows on the seat-arms; so that if the monks who used them dropped asleep during divine service, the seats came forward and pitched them headlong upon the floor; nay, if they only dozed and nodded the least in the world, the hard oaken seat clapped against the hard oaken back, and made a noise loud enough to attract the attention of the whole audience.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 106, November 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

he commented, and he drew a deep, deep sigh.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

‘De nex’ ting is for you to go an’ tell de man dat de wilde-honde come an’ chase de pigs till dey run ’em plunk-clunk right into de mud hole, an’ dar dey all is, head down an’ dead down, smodered, wid on’y
— from Old Hendrik's Tales by Arthur Owen Vaughan