After walking a good while in the garden with these, I went up again to Sir W. Pen, and took my wife home, and after supper to prayers, and read very seriously my vowes, which I am fearful of forgetting by my late great expenses, but I hope in God I do not, and so to bed. 19th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

DANGER, n. A savage beast which, when it sleeps, Man girds at and despises, But takes himself away by leaps And bounds when it arises.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The carriage drew near and stopped.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To be sure, whenever we meet a balloon we have a chance of perceiving our rate, and then, I admit, things do not appear so very bad.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Diawlio, v. to call the devil Diaws, a. unapt Diawydd, a. without avidity Dib, n. a fall, a depth Dibaid, a. unceasing, incessant Dibaith, a. indistinct Diball, a. sure, infallible Dibara, a. not durable, short Dibarod, a. unprepared Dibarch, a void of respect Dibech, a. without sin, sinless Diben, a. headless, endless Dibenaeth, a. without a chief Diberchen, a. unpossessed Diberfedd, a. without entrails Diberthynas, a. irrelevant Diberygl, a. without danger Dibetrus, a. unhesitating Dibil, a. having no peel Dibl, n. a skirt; a daggle Diblaid, a. without party Diblant, a. childless Dible, n. skirts; daggles Dibleth, a. unplaited Diblaid, n. bedaggling Diblysg, a. without shell or husk Diblo, v. to daggle, to draggle Diblog, a. bedaggled Diblu, a. featherless, unfledged Diblwyf, a. having no parish Diblydd, a. not mellow or soft Diblyg, a. without a fold Dibobl, a without people Diboen, a. painless; unwearied Diboeth, a. without heat Diborth, a. helpless, unaided Dibr, n. a saddle Dibra, v. to put on a saddle Dibraidd, a. without flocks Dibrawf, a. without proof Dibres, a without copper Dibreswyl, a. having no abode Dibrid, a. priceless Dibridd, a. without earth Dibryn, a. unscanty, unscarce Dibrïod, a. unmarried Dibrudd, a. indiscreet Dibrwy, a. improvident Dibryd, a. inopportune Dibryder, a. without anxiety Dibryn, a. without purchase Dibrysur, a. not diligent Dibur, a. impure Dibwyll, a. senseless, witless Dibwys, a. not heavy, light Dibybyr, a. void of energy Dibyn, n. a steep, a hanging Dibynai, n. a pendulum Dibynaidd, a. pendulous Dibyniad, n.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

El indio disminuye en número de norte a sur y el europeo, de este a oeste.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They assembled a large army in the Val di Nievole, and seized Montecatini; from thence they marched to Montecarlo, in order to secure the free passage into Lucca.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, 70 Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own read.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Furnerius A. Prominently light-surrounded, with bright streaks, radiating for a long distance N. and S. Messier A.
— from The Moon: A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Thomas Gwyn Elger

The Chevalier de Grammont always made one of the company, and it was very seldom that he did not add something of his own invention, agreeably to surprise by some unexpected stroke of magnificence and gallantry.
— from The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 03 by Hamilton, Anthony, Count

But a just punishment overtook him for the murders he had committed upon those of the same nation with him; for when the people of Scythopolis threw their darts at them in the grove, he drew his sword, but did not attack any of the enemy; for he saw that he could do nothing against such a multitude; but he cried out after a very moving manner, and said, "O you people of Scythopolis, I deservedly suffer for what I have done with relation to you, when I gave you such security of my fidelity to you, by slaying so many of those that were related to me.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

But, as will appear in detail when the different species of birds of this class are described, he does not always succeed in doing this.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

C4-444 According to McWatters, the Beckley bus was behind the Marsalis bus, but he did not actually see it.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

I had thought that on dark nights and stormy nights, when the wind was whining dolefully about the gables, my light in my window might be—well, Jean might like to see it there.
— from Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

Yet, between the Esotericism of the old Arhats, and that which has now survived in India among the few Brâhmans who have seriously studied their Secret Philosophy, the difference does not appear so very great.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Praying God to spread in abundance His holiest blessings upon you and upon our poor child, I remain, very dear daughter, notwithstanding all surmises to the contrary, in very truth and with my whole heart your Mother, who has for you that incomparable maternal love which God has given me and which by His grace will never grow less.
— from Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal by Chantal, Jeanne-Françoise de, Saint