He began the world with a great hunger for money; the son of a half-pay officer, bred in a family, whose study was to make four-pence do as much as others made four-pence halfpenny do.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Not alone did it give him the same dark and murky aspect of the Silva house, inside and out, but it seemed to emphasize that animal-like strength of his which she detested.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

In former times, small preliminary expeditions such as the one we have just been describing, would fix the dates and make arrangements often for as much as a year ahead.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

But assume a consent and it shall presently be granted, since really and underneath their all external diversities, all men are of one heart and mind.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since prior to th’ Ægean fleet Did Minos piracy defeat, And made adventures on the sea.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

And they consider that those things which partake of vices, and actions done according to vice, and bad men, are themselves in some sense the evil; and its accessories are despondency, and melancholy, and other things of that kind.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Those opinions which you have been educated to dread and mistrust are opinions that are dying away.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Hence we find it prefixed to the names both of Deities and men; and of places denominated from them.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

recognition Cydnabyddiaeth, n. aquaintance Cydnabyddus, a. aquainted together; expert Cydnad, n. conclamation Cydnaid, n. a joint leap Cydnaws, a. connatural Cydnerth, n. equipollence Cydnesu, to approach mutually Cydnewid, v. to interchange Cydoddef, n. sympathy Cydoed, n. a contemporary Cydoes, a. coeval, coevous Cydoesi, v. to contemporise Cydofal, n. a mutual care Cydol, a. complete, whole Cydolrwydd, n. continuity Cydradd, a. of equal degree Cydraid, n. mutual want Cydraith, n. mutual rule Cydran, n. a joint share Cydranu, v. to share mutually Cydranwr, n. a joint sharer Cydrawd, n. concurrence Cydred, a. concurrent Cydroddi, v. to give mutually Cydrwymo, v. to bind together Cydryddid, n. mutual liberty Cydryw, n. hermaphrodite: a homogeneous Cydrywiaeth, n. homogeneity Cydsain, n. a consonant Cydseinio, v. to agree in sound Cydsiarad, n. confabulation Cydsisial, v. to whisper together Cydsoriant, n. mutual offence Cydsylweddiad, consubstantiation Cydsylltiad, n. conjunction Cydsyniad, n. unanimity Cydsynio, v. to consent Cydu, v. to bag, to pouch Cydundeb, n. unity, union Cyduniad, n. a consenting Cydwaed, a. to the same blood Cydwaeddiad, n. conclamation Cydwas, n. a fellow servant Cydwe, n. a contexture Cydwedd, n. a yoke fellow Cydweddu, v. to accord Cydweinidog, n. a fellow servant Cydweitho, v. to co-operate Cydweithiwr, n. a fellow labourer Cydweithredu, v. to co-operate Cydwelydd, n. a consociate Cydwerth, n. an equivalent Cydweu, v. to interweave Cydwybod, n. conscience Cydwybodol, a. conscientious Cydwybodolrwydd, n. conscientiousness Cydwynebiad, n. confrontation Cydwysiad, n. convocation Cydyfed, v. to drink together Cydymattal, to abstain mutually Cydymaith, n. a companion; v. to accompany Cydymdeimlad, n. mutual sympathy Cydymdeithas, n. company Cydymdeithasu, v. mutually to asscociate Cydymdrafodi, v. to strive mutually Cydymddiried, n. mutual trust Cydymddwyn, to bear mutually Cydymgais, n. competition Cydymgilio, to recede mutually Cydymgyrch, n. concurrence Cydymholi, v. enquire mutually Cydymlid, n. mutual pursuit Cydymliw, n. mutual reproach Cydymaith, n. companion Cydymeithasu, v. to consociate Cydymoddef, v. to bear mutually Cydymranu, v. to secede together Cydymrodd, v. to yield mutually Cydymroi, v. to resign mutually Cydymryson, n. mutual strife Cydyrauniad, n. mutual union Cydymweddu, v. to conform mutually Cydyn, n. a little bag Cydyru, v. to drive together Cyf, a. prefix of general use, denoting a mutual act or effect Cyfab, a. with foal Cyfaddas, a. convenient, meet Cyfaddasu, v. to render meet Cyfaddef, v. to confess Cyfaddefiad, n. confession Cyfagos, a. near, contiguous Cyfagu, v. to nurse together Cyfagwedd, n. conformity Cyfagweddu, v. to conform Cyfaill, n. a friend Cyfammod, n. covenant Cyfammodi, v. to covenant Cyfamser, a. mean time Cyfamseru, to make opportune Cyfan, a. entire, whole, total Cyfanol, a. entire, integral Cyfander, n. entireness Cyfandroed, a. web-footed Cyfanedd, n. integrality Cyfaniad, n. a making whole Cyfannedd, n. inhabited place: adj. inhabited; domestic Cyfanneddiad, n. inhabitation Cyfanneddle, n. habitation Cyfanneddol, a. habitable Cyfaneddu, v. to inhabit Cyfaneddwr, n. inhabitant Cyfanrif, n. total number Cyfanrwydd, n. entireness Cyfansawdd, a composite Cyfansoddi, v. to compose; to arrange the letters Cyfansoddiad, n. composition Cyfansoddol, a. compositive Cyfansoddwr, n. composer Cyfanu, v. to make whole Cyfanwerth, n. wholesale Cyfar, n. a front, facing; joint ploughing; acre Cyfarch, n. address, greeting: v. to greet, to salute Cyfarchedigol, v. congratulatory Cafarchiad, n. a greeting Cyfarchol, a. complimentary Cyfarchwel, n. reproach Cyfarchwr, n. congratulator Cyfarchwyl, n. a survey Cyfaredd, n. a charm Cyfareddu, v. to cure by charm Cyfarfod, an assembly, a meeting Cyfartal, a. proportional Cyfartalai, n. a standard Cyfartaledd, n. poportionateness Cyfartaliad, n. an equation Cyfartalu, v. to proportonate Cyfarth, n. a barking, a yelp: v. to bark, to yelp Cyfarthiad, n. a barking Cyfarthfa, n. a baiting with dogs; n. junction of hills Cyfarthiad, n. a barking Cyfaru, v. to plough together Cyfarwydd, n. a wizard: a. guideing; skilful Cyfarwyddiad, n. direction Cyfarwyddo, v. to direct Cyfarwyddol, v. directing Cyfarwyddwr, n. director Cyfarwyddyd, n. experience Cyfarwynebu, v. to comfort Cyfatteb, v. to correspond Cyfattebiad, n. a corresponding Cyfattebiaeth, n. correspondence Cyfattebol, a. corresponding Cyfategu, v. to uphold jointly Cyfathrach, n. affinity, kind Cyfathrachu, v. to join alliance, to join in matrimony Cyfhâu, v. make whole Cyfddydd, n. the day-spring Cyfebol, a. big with foal Cyfebr, v. going with foal Cyfebriad, n. gestati
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Our men were strangely dispirited in all the assaults they gave upon the place; there was something looked like disaster and mismanagement, and our men went on with an ill will and no resolution.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

Julia told me of the things he did not do as marvellingly as of the things he did or had done; the charm, it seemed, was to find herself familiar with him to the extent of all but nursing him and making him belong to her.
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8 by George Meredith

Then Icilius and Numitorius took up the dead body of the maiden and showed it to the people, saying much of the wickedness of him who had driven a father to do such a deed, and much also of the liberty which had been taken from them, and which, if they would only use this occasion, they might now recover.
— from Stories From Livy by Alfred John Church

The standard daily dietary for a man of average weight, doing a moderate amount of work, is variously stated by the best authorities as proteids from 100 to 130 grammes, fat 35 to 125 grammes, and carbo-hydrates 450 to 550 grammes.
— from The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by A. W. Duncan

When the Sultan had received the despatches announcing my arrival, orders were sent to the Governor of Constantinople to convey us over to Asia, and send us on to Amasia (or Amazeia, as it is spelt on ancient coins).
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

So these differences all melt away on careful comparison, and it is not proved that there are two distinct sermons.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson

She simply suffered in dumb, abject misery, an occasional dry sob shaking her.
— from A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter

Twelve hundred troops and Canadians 383 were to land with artillery at Dorchester, and march at once to force the barricade across the neck of the peninsula on which the town stood.
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

The workmen are paid daily, gain about eighteen dollars a month, and occupy several houses not far from the mine.
— from Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826. v. 1-2 by Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Bernhard