For who am I that I should dispute such things—I who am a mere retired army doctor, et voilà tout —an army doctor who has taken to agriculture?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

Don Enrique Villamor, the commander of the fort, gave me books from the library.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

behold, lo Enyd, n. while, time, space Enydd, n. seat of intellect Enyfed, n. energy, vigour Eng, n. space: a ample Engherdded, n. a sojourning Engi, v. to set at large, to free Englyn, n. a metre so called Engu, v. to set at large, to free Engur, a. marvellous, amazing Engurio, v. to marvel Engwarth, n. a beach Engwth, n. a push: a. sudden Engyl, n. expanding principle: fire; angels Engyn, n. an outcast, a wretch Engyrth, a. awful, direful Eoca, v. to catch salmon Eofnder, n. confidence, boldness Eofneg, n. the parrhesia Eofni, v. to make bold Eofniad, n. a growing bold Eog, n. a salmon Eogyn, n. a samlet Eon, a. bold, daring, forward Eondra, n. boldness, daringness Eoni, v. to grow daring Eorth, a. diligent, assiduous Eos, n. a nightingale Eosaidd, a. like a nightingale Epa, n. an ape, a monkey Epples, n. leaven; ferment Eppil, n. offspring, issue Eppiledd, n. offspring Eppilgar, a. prolific, teeming Eppiliad, n. bringing forth Eppilio, v. to generate, to multiply Eppiliwr, n. one who generates Epynt, n. an ascent, a slope Er, n. impulse forward: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Sed notat hunc omnis domus et vicinia tota, / 25 Introrsum turpem, speciosum pelle decora —But all his family and the entire neighbourhood regard him as inwardly base, and only showy outside.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

At [ 76 ] Fort Santiago Don Enrique Villamor, the commander, received me.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige that is in them of unselfishness and generosity, and so effectively that they shine resplendent in the eyes of all beholders.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

your Eichiad, n. a crying out Eichio, v. to sound; to cry Eidiaw, v. to frisk, to enliven Eidiawl, a. vigorous, lively Eidiogi, v. to invigorate Eidion, n. a beast, steer Eidral, n. ground-ivy Eiddew, n. the ivy Eiddiad, n. a possessing Eiddiar, n. hether or ling Eiddiaw, v. to possess Eiddiawg, a. owned: n. slave Eiddig, a. jealous: n. a jealous one; a zealot Eiddigedd, n. zeal, jealousy Eiddigeddu, v. to grow jealous Eiddìgio, v. to grow jealous Eiddigor, n. superior Eiddigus, a. jealous; zealous Eiddil, a. slender, small Eiddilaâd, n. extenuation Eiddilâu, v. to grow slender Eiddiliad, n. extenuation Eiddilo, v. to extenuate Eiddilwch, n. slenderness Eiddion, n. personal property Eiddiorwg, n. the ivy Eiddo, n. property; chattels Eiddun, a. desirous, fond Eidduneb, n. desire, choice Eiddunedu, v. to desire Eidduno, v. to desire, to wish, to pray; to vow Eiddunol, a. delectable Eiddwg, a. contiguous, near Eiddwng, a. contiguous Eiddyganu, v. to approximate Eigiad, n. a bringing forth Eigiaeth, n. a teeming estate Eigian, n. centre; origin: v. to bring forth; to sob Eigiaw, v. to generate Eigiawl, a. teeming, prolific Eigion, n. a source; a middle the abyss, or ocean Eigraeth, n. virgin state Eigrau, n. stockings without feet Eigyr, n. a virgin, a maid Eilar, n. second ploughing Eilchwyl, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Serafina taking the advantage of this general satisfaction, when the heart, softened into complacency, deposits every violent thought: “I must now,” said she, “try my interest with Renaldo.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Pawlowsky, I. Ueber den Einfluss von Tee, Kaffee und einigen alkoholischen Getränken auf die quantitative Pepsinwirkung.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

However, if those whom it more concerns think fit to be of another opinion, I am ready to depose, when I shall be lawfully called, that no European did ever visit those countries before me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

About the same time also, when corne began to wax ripe, to reuenge himselfe of them that had refused to go with him in that iournie, he caused the pales of all the parks & forrests which he had within his realme to be throwne downe, & the diches to be made plaine, that the déere breaking out and ranging abroad in the corne fields, might destroie & eat vp the same before it could be ripened, for which act (if it were so in déed) manie a bitter cursse procéeded from the mouths of the poore husbandmen towards the kings person, and not vnworthilie.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed

Ex eo enim quod aliud a se coli dicit quam colit, et culturam et honorem in alterum transferendo, jam non colit quod negavit: dicimus, et palam dicimus et vobis torquentibus lacerati et cruenti vociferamur, Deum colimus per Christum.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

Nur in der Schule selbst ist die eigentliche Vorschule —The true preparatory school is only the school itself.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This much is definitely established: Vocal tone is produced when the vocal cords are brought together and held on tension, and the air in the lungs is expired with sufficient force to set the vocal cords in motion.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor

And I do not think it fanciful to suppose that the note of grave if unclassified piety, of reconciliation and resignation, with which they close the book, was intended—that it was a deliberate “evening voluntary” to play out of church the assistants at a most remarkable function—such a function as criticism in English had not celebrated before, such as, I think, it may without unfairness be said has not been repeated since.
— from Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

Blood, concocted well, Which by the thirsty veins is ne'er imbib'd, And rests as food superfluous, to be ta'en From the replenish'd table, in the heart Derives effectual virtue, that informs The several human limbs, as being that, Which passes through the veins itself to make them.
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Volume 4 by Dante Alighieri

[387] Ramsey Cartulary (Rolls Series), i. 267: 'Decem hidae, ex quibus persona, liberi et censuarii tenent tres hidas et dimidiam, et villani tenent sex hidas.'
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Up to this time Venice had fed her emotional instincts by pageants and gold and velvets and brocades, but with Giorgione she discovered that there was a deeper emotional vehicle than these superficial glories,—glowing depths of colour enveloped in the mysterious richness of chiaroscuro which obliterated form, and hid and suggested more than it revealed.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

Des Esseintes viewed the arcades of the rue de Rivoli , drowned in the gloom and submerged by water, and it seemed to him that he was in the gloomy tunnel under the Thames.
— from Against the Grain by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans