He never disdained those, who were wretched by poverty and misfortune; he did sometimes despise persons, who, with many opportunities of happiness, rendered themselves miserable by vanity, ignorance and cruelty.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

, S. Dimnes , sb. dimness, S2. Dinnen , v. to din, MD; dunien , MD; denie , S; dinede , pt. s. , MD; donyd , MD; dynnit , MD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Defaute , sb. defect, fault, S2, C2, PP; defalte , S2; defautis , pl. , S3, W2.—AF. defaute , defalte .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

A decoction of the leaves and branches of Sage made and drank, saith Dioscorides, provokes urine, brings down women’s courses, helps to expel the dead child, and causes the hair to become black.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Nec solum nobis silvestria cernere monstra Contigit; aequoreos ego cum certantibus ursis Spectavi vitulos, et equorum nomine dignum, Sen deforme pecus, quod in illo nascitur amni....”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Disheriten , v. to disinherit, S2; deseritede , pt. s. , S2; deserited ,
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Dihten , v. to order, rule, prepare, adorn, MD, S2; diȝten , MD; diȝtti , S2; diht , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Directeur des publications de CyLibris, maison d'édition littéraire en ligne Yoshi Mikami * (Fujisawa, Japon) / Créateur de The Languages of the World by Computers and the Internet, et co-auteur de Pour un web multilingue Jacky Minier (Orléans) / Créateur de Diamedit, site de promotion d'inédits artistiques et littéraires Jean-Philippe Mouton (Paris) /
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

"To that class in this country, according to the decisions of our courts hitherto, belong American Indians and slaves, and, according to the Dred Scott decision, persons of African descent whose ancestors were slaves.
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

[49] Die Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta und die Sierra de Perijá, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin, Vol. 23, 1888, pp. 1-158.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

Her merchants, conveying cloth, velvet, serge, canvas, various precious and commercial metals, glass beads, and other goods, received in return drugs, spices, dyes, precious stones, rugs, silks, brocades, cotton, and perfumes, which were sold at a high rate of profit.
— from Venice by Dorothy Menpes

: be dæies , by day, S; now a dayes , C2; daie , dat. , S; daw , S2; daȝes , pl. , S;
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

54.—Hechos de Sancho Davila, p. 29.—Ossorio, Albæ Vita, tom. II.
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 by William Hickling Prescott

Four thousand charioteers, (Such as did glide upon the Phrygian plains, And (wheeling) double service do perform— Both horseman's speed and footman's stable strength)
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

Still shines the light of holy lives Like star-beams over doubt; Each sainted memory, Christlike, drives Some dark possession out.
— from Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

It is much to be regretted that Dr. Schepss’ death prevented him from pursuing this line of investigation further.
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer