I, with a few others, had the good fortune to be washed ashore clinging to pieces of the wreck, for the storm had driven us near an island, and scrambling up beyond the reach of the waves we threw ourselves down quite exhausted, to wait for morning.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

above: adv. above Ud, n. a howl, a yell; a blast Udfa, n. a howling, a yelling Udgan, n. a sound of a trumpet Udganiad, n. the act of sounding a trumpet Udganu, v. to sound a trumpet Udgorn, n. a trumpet Udiad, n. a howling, a yelling Udlef, n. a howling voice Udo, v. to howl, to yell Udol, a. howling, yelling Udon, n. a solemn cry Udoniad, n. an imprecation Udoniaeth, n. imprecation Udd, n. what is over; a chief Uf, n. what is over or spread Ufelai, n. oxygen Ufelier, n. what flames out Ufelu, v. to generate fire Ufelyddiad, n. ignition Ufell, a humble, obsequous Ufudd, a. humble, obedient Ufudd-dod, n. obedience Ufuddgar, a. obsequous, meek Ufuddâd, n. humiliation Ufuddâu, v. to obey, to be humble Ufuddoldeb, n. humbleness Uffarn, n. the ankle Uffern, n. hell, hades Uffernol, a. infernal, hellish Ug, n. what is enveloping Ugain, Ugaint, a twenty Ugeinfed, a. twentieth Ugeinplyg, a. twenty-fold Ul, n. what is humid; closeness, a. damp; close, muggy Ulai, a. hydrogen Uliad, n. a making damp; a growing muggy Uliar, n. a plegmatic habit Ulo, v. to damp; to smother; to become close or muggy; to heat with dampness Ulw, Ulwyn, n. ashes, cinders Ull, n. what is abrupt or quick Ullda, n. a crazy one, a fickle one, an oaf Ulliad, n. a sudden driving Un, n. an individual, one: a. one; identical, same Unad, n. a making one, union Unarbymtheg, a. sixteen Unarddeg, a. eleven Unben, Unbeniad, n. a monarch: sir Unbenaethol, Unbenol, a. monarchical Unbriodas, n. monogamy Uncorn, n. the unicorn Undad, a. of the same father Undeb, n. unity; concord Undeg, a. eleven
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Distillatio una nec adhuc in morem adaucta, tussim facit, assidua et violenta pthisim.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Let justice be really blind in all such cases, her sword descending upon noble and ignoble of station alike.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 by Various

He was dressed up nicely, and I thought he put on style, and I could only think of him at home, with his overalls tucked in his boots, driving a yoke of oxen to plow a field.
— from How Private George W. Peck Put Down the Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

The ordinance which the Continental Congress adopted in 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory is of great importance: it provides for the establishment of our territorial system; it contains many of those features of management which have been used from that date until now; and it is also of interest because of the influence it has had upon the history of slavery in our country.
— from Government and Administration of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby

The increase is attributable to several causes, especially the pressure which comes from ambitious statesmen for admission to the influential circle, the growing necessity of according representation to varied elements and interests within the dominant party, the multiplication of state activities which call for direction under new and important departments, and the disposition to accord to every considerable branch of the administrative system at least one representative.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Let not Sir Walter Scott, then, thus attempt to mislead the people of England in the character of their princes, by palliating their public abuses, and varnishing their private misconduct; nor let him disseminate doctrines unnatural, nonsensical, and injurious to the rights of human nature.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

The Sister acknowledged that she was, and Melvyna went on: "You see, things is different up North, and I understand 'em, but you don't.
— from Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson

There stands the Inspector at thy door: Like a dog, he hunts for boys who know not two and two are four.” “Kind words are more than coronets,” She said, and wondering looked at me: “It is the dead unhappy night, and I must hurry home to tea.”
— from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll

If we meet the Dawn up north, and I have a hunch we shall meet her, we want to keep our eyes open.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

She went through the birch bluff and towards the slough, which had almost dried up now, and it was with a curious stirring of confused feelings that she remembered what Wyllard had said to her there.
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss

The unfortunate propensity of the little governor to experiment and innovation, and the frequent exacerbations of his temper, kept his council in a continual worry; and the council being to the people at large what yeast or leaven is to a batch, they threw the whole community in a ferment; and the people at large being to the city what the mind is to the body, the unhappy commotions they underwent operated most disastrously upon New Amsterdam; insomuch that, in certain of their paroxysms of consternation and perplexity, they begat several of the most crooked, distorted, and abominable streets, lanes, and alleys, with which this metropolis is disfigured.
— from Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Washington Irving