Their ill success was imputed, by their factors and agents, to the extortion and oppression of the Spanish government; but was, perhaps, principally owing to the profusion and depredations of those very factors and agents; some of whom are said to have acquired great fortunes, even in one year.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The difficulty is, not in understanding the differences of the virtues, but in apprehending their unity.
— from Laws by Plato

Todi, v. to construct; to join Todiad, n. a construction Toddadwy, a. dissolvable, soluble Toddaid, n. what is melting; a metre Toddedig, a. dissolved, liquid melting Toddi, v. to melt, to dissolve Toddiad, n. a dissolving, a melting Toddiant, n. a solution, a melting Toddion, n. meltings, drippings Toddol, a. dissolving, melting Töed, n. a covering; a roofing Töedig, a. covered: roofed Toes, n. dough, paste of bread Toeseg, n. a kneading trough Toesi, v. to make dough Toesyn, n. a lump of dough Tofi, v. to draw out in a range Tofiad, a. a drawing in a range Togi, v. to elongate, to extend Toi, v. to cover over; to roof Tolach, n. a moan: v. to moan Tolc, n. a dent or impression by punching or striking Tolciad, n. a driving in Tolcio, v. to cause a sink, to dent, to crease Tolch, Tolchen, n. a coagulated mass, a clod Tolchenu, v. to form a clod Tolchiad, n. a forming clods Tolfaen, n. an omen stone Tolgorn, n. a trump, a clarion Toli, v. to curtail; to spare; to deal out Toliad, n. a curtailing; sparing Toliant, n. a privation; sparing Tolio, v. to dimmish; to spare Tolws, n. what roars; a roarer Toll, n. a fraction; a toll Tollfa, n. a tolling place Tolli, v. to take from; to toll Tolliant, n. a toll, a custom Tom, n. a mound; a heap of dirt; dung Tomen, n. a mound; a dunghill Tomi, v. to make a heap; to dung Tomlyd, a. covered with dung Ton, n. a surface; a sward; a peel; a skin; lay land: n. a breaker; a wave Tôn, n. a tone, an accent; a tune Tonc, n. a tink, a ring, a clash Tonciad, n. a tinking, a ringing Toncio, v. to tinkle, to ring Tonen, n. coating; cuticle; bog Toni, v. to form a skin; to pare Toniad, n. a making a tone: n. a skinning, a paring Toniar, n. a plank, a shingle: n. a breaker, a wave Tonog, a. turbulent, boisterous; froward Tonol, a. breaking in waves Tonyddiaeth, n. a tonation Top, n. a top; a stopple Topiad, n. a topping: a cresting Topio, v. to top, to crest Topyn, n. a top; a topple Topynu, v. to form a top Tor, n. a break, a rupture, a cut: n. a bulge; a belly; a boss Toraeth, n. a produce; a store Torbwt, n. a turbot Torch, n. a wreath, a coil Torchi, v. to wreath; to coil Torchog, a. wreathed; coiled Torchol, a. wreathing, coiled Torchwr, n. a wreather, a twister; a coiler Tordain, v. to loll, to lounge Tordyn, a. tight-bellied Tordd, n. a murmur, a din Torddiad, n. a raising a din Torddu, v. to murmur, to make a din Tored, a. what expands: a. vast Toredwynt, n. a whirlwind Toreithio, v. to yield increase Toreithus, Toreithiog, a. abundant, full, teeming Torf, n. a crowd; a troop; a host, a multitude Torfa, n. thousand millions Torfagl, n. the eye-bright Torfog, a. having a host Torfu, v. to collect a host Torgeingl, n. a girth, a girt Torgest, n. a hernia, a rupture Torgestu, v. to form a hernia; to rupture Torgoch, a. red-bellied: n. a chair Torgochiad, n. a char fish Tori, v. to break, to cut, to fracture Toriad, n. a breaking Toriant, n. a fraction, a fracture Torlan, n. a broken bank Torlla, n. a slattern, a slut Torllwyd, Torllwydog, n. the wild tansy Torllwyth, n. the burden of a womb Torm, what is stretched round Tormach, n. a forfeit of bail Tormaen, n. the saxifrage Tormennu, v. to press round Torment, n. press round; conflict Tormiad, n. a gathering round Tormaint, n. surrounding host Tormu, v. to assemble round Torog, a. having a prominence; big-bellied, applied to sows, dogs, and cats Torogyn, n. a big-bellied one Toron, n. plat; a decking out; a cloak Toronaeth, n. a decking out Toroni, v. to deck out; to mantle Toronog, a. decked, mantled Torp, n. a round mass, a lump Torpwth, n. a short squab Tors, n. a covering; a shelter Torsed, n. a coverlet, a rug Torsi, v. to cover over Torstain, a. bulging, gorbellied Torsyth, n. stiff-stomached Torsythu, v. to stiffen out the belly; to swagger Torth, n. what sustains; a loaf Torthi, v. to cake; to settle Torympryd, n. a breakfast Toryn, n. a mantle, a cape Toryniad, n. a mantling Torynu, v. to mantle, to cloak Tos, n. quick jerk, toss Tosiad, n. a jerking, a tossing Tosio, v. to jerk, to toss Tost, a. severe, harsh, violent Tostedd, n. severity; a stranguary Tostfrwyn, n. sea rushes Tosti, v. to rack, to torture Tostiad, n. a torturing Tostur, n. misery, severe plight Tosturaol, a. commiserating Tosturâu, v. to commiserate Tosturi, n. compassion; pity Tosturiaeth, n. compassion Tosturio, v. to take pity Tosturiol, a. compassionate Tosturus,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The scandal of an abstract heresy can be only proclaimed to the people by the blast of the ecclesiastical trumpet; but the most ignorant can perceive, the most torpid must feel, the profanation and downfall of their visible deities.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Good-morning, Madame Houlbreque.” PART III This particular Sunday was the day of the village festival, the annual festival in honor of the patron saint, which in Normandy is called the assembly.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We gather from this poem, which must be considered an authentic and most interesting document, that the manse or dwelling of the villain comprised three distinct buildings; the first for the corn, the second for the hay and straw, the third for the man and his family.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

Do they begin by exciting the detestation of the very instruments of their intended usurpations?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Sometimes again we praise the lover of Honour as manly and having a love for what is noble, and him who has no love for it as being moderate and modest (as we noticed also in the former discussion of these virtues).
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

If this construction be adopted, then each party has for ever renounced the right of laying any duties on the vessels of the other coming from any foreign port, or more than one hundred sols on those coming coastwise.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 by Thomas Jefferson

Of the former, Mayon, in the province of Albay, is the delight of the vulcanologist and of the layman alike on account of its exquisite form, which is that of the theoretically perfect volcano.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

They burned and made a perfect destruction of the village and everything pertaining to it."
— from Gregg's Commerce of the Prairies, 1831-1839, part 2 by Josiah Gregg

This fact tends to cast some doubt on the value of laryngoscopic observation as a means of determining the laryngeal action.
— 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

To them Shelley’s description of the view from the Euganean Hills of northern Italy, “Beneath is spread like a green sea
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

Of the competing cults in the East the least developed in a theological sense were those of Attis and Adonis, originally deities of the Vegetation principle, whose annual death and resurrection stood primarily for the yearly decay and rebirth of the general life of Nature, and secondarily for the waning and waxing of the power of the sun.
— from A Short History of Christianity Second Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

This is the most frequent and the least dangerous of the various forms of bleeding.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

Vicissitudes were not for Rollo, who had not fathomed the joys of adaptability; and the savour of the sweet herbs which, from Jarvo's wallet, he had that day served, was forgotten in his longing for a drop of tarragan vinegar and a bulb of garlic with which to dress the herbs.
— from Romance Island by Zona Gale

Yet no sunlight glittered upon the Kremlin domes; only the velvet blackness of the dark hour had melted, and given place to a twilight of sullen gray.
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

We see in both the same general principles of arrangement, which indeed belong to all Benedictine monasteries, enabling us to determine with precision the disposition of the various buildings, when little more than fragments of the walls exist.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg