lytig (e) crafty, cunning , AO.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

That in that virtue in which Regulus excels Cato, Christians are pre-eminently distinguished.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The decoction is good for the same purpose, and opens obstructions, evacuating cold, clammy and phlegmatic humours both from the liver and the spleen, and bringing the body to a more lively colour.
— 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

When sixty-six allied ships-of-the-line confronted the thirty-five which alone England could collect, and drove them into their harbors, there was realized that mastery of the Channel which Napoleon claimed would make him beyond all doubt master of England.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

what, and how causeth melancholy; quantity; diet of divers nations Diet rectified in substance; in quantity Diet a cause of love-melancholy; a cure Diet, inordinate, of parents, a cause of melancholy to their offspring Digression against all manner of discontents; digression of air; of anatomy of devils and spirits Discommodities of unequal matches Disgrace a cause of melancholy; qualified by counsel Dissimilar parts of the body Distemper of particular parts, causes of melancholy, and how Discontents, cares, miseries, causes of melancholy; how repelled and cured by good counsel Diseases why inflicted upon us; their number, definition, division; diseases of the head; diseases of the mind; more grievous than those of the body Divers accidents causing melancholy Divine sentences Divines' miseries; with the causes of their miseries Dotage what Dotage of lovers Dowry and money main causes of love-melancholy Dreams and their kinds Dreams troublesome, how to be amended Drunkards' children often melancholy Drunkenness taxed E. Earth's motion examined; compass, centre; an sit anamata .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Sanguis upupoe cum melle compositus et centaurea, &c. Albertus.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Quod quo facilius optinerent, scripserunt heredes secum M. Crassum et Q. Hortensium, homines eiusdem aetatis potentissimos; qui cum illud falsum esse suspicarentur, sibi autem nullius essent conscii culpae, alieni facinoris munusculum non repudiaverunt.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The Formula is an exact, clear, consistent, and guarded statement of original Lutheranism purified of all foreign elements later on injected into it by the Philippists and other errorists.
— from Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente

Vegetables, such as lettuce, chicory, sorel, artichokes, spinach, green pease, beans, cabbage, celery, and all such as are used by way of salad, are not very nutritive, but contain much watery and mucilaginous matter, favourable to the development of corpulency: the same may be said of carrots, turnips, potatoes, rice, beet-root, maccaroni and vermicelli bread; all kinds of cakes, pastry and biscuits, which are made of wheaten flour, are decidedly contra-indicated, as are also eggs, cream, cheese and butter.
— from Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of Cure by J.-F. (Jean-François) Dancel

Rangez d'un côté les agréments et de l'autre les désagréments et comparez cela avec vos situations passées et avec celles auxquelles vous pouvez attendre et faites alors la conclusion."
— from Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 2 (of 3) Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England by Wraxall, Lascelles, Sir

Prosecutions and executions like this were common in every Christian country, and all of them were based upon the belief that an intellectual conviction is a crime.
— from An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine by Robert Green Ingersoll

In a flash I saw the futility of attempting to explain to a woman like Mrs. Sardis, who had no doubts about the utter righteousness of her own code, whose rules had no exceptions, whose principles could apply to every conceivable case, and who was the very embodiment of the vast stolid London that hemmed me in—of attempting to explain to such an excellent, blind creature why, and in obedience to what ideal, I would not answer for the future.
— from Sacred and Profane Love: A Novel in Three Episodes by Arnold Bennett

Elsmere was silent, thinking this then was the explanation of the Squire’s minute and exhaustive knowledge of the early Christian centuries, a knowledge into which—apart from certain forbidden topics-he had himself dipped so freely.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Southeast Asia Clipperton Island: World Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Southeast Asia Colombia: South America, Central America and the Caribbean Comoros: Africa Congo, Democratic Republic of the: Africa Congo, Republic of the: Africa Cook Islands: Oceania Coral Sea Islands: Oceania Costa Rica: Central America and the Caribbean Cote d'Ivoire: Africa Croatia: Europe Cuba: Central America and the Caribbean Cyprus: Middle East Czech Republic: Europe Denmark: Europe Djibouti: Africa Dominica: Central America and the Caribbean Dominican Republic: Central America and the Caribbean Ecuador: South America Egypt:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The moon had risen, and the rose garden was clad in luminous white with trimmings of purplish grey and black shadows. 208 XIV Passengers for Kürschdorf by the Orient Express change cars at Munich, which, if the train is on time, is reached at 12.24 on the day following the departure from Paris.
— from A Prince to Order by Charles Stokes Wayne

You know how I have run down every conceivable clue and how I stand as uncleared as the day the verdict was brought at Manila.
— from The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford