Fanatically, childishly devoted to “the cause” or rather in reality to Pyotr Verhovensky, he acted on the instructions given to him when at the meeting of the quintet they had agreed and had distributed the various duties for the next day.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

= KEY: Desolate \a.\. SYN: Bereaved, forlorn, forsaken, comfortless, deserted, uninhabited, desert, wild, waste, bare, bleak, lonely.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

9 See De Gubernatis’ ‘Zoological Mythology,’ which contains further curious details on this subject.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

] FONTAINE (Comte de), one of the leaders of the Vendee, in 1799, and then known as Grand-Jacques.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running [Pg 78] back to fetch them, and committed hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humour possible; while the grocer and his people were so frank and fresh, that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn outside for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

crafing (æ) f. claim, demand , TC 644.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

We were both of us glad to meet once more, but on my offering to see what my great friends could do for him with the Academicians, he replied with all an artist’s pride that he was much obliged to me, but would rather not have any other patrons than his talents.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Tartari mulis, equis vescuntur et crudis carnibus, et fruges contemnunt, dicentes, hoc jumentorum pabulum et bonum, non hominum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

[Footnote: Castello del clli .
— from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete by da Vinci Leonardo

This inner vivacity of the Fichtean principle, which recalls the pure actuality of Aristotle's [Greek: nous] and the ceaseless becoming of Heraclitus, finds its complete parallel in the fact that, although he was wanting neither in logical consecutiveness nor in the talent for luminous and popular exposition, Fichte felt continually driven to express his ideas in new forms, and, just when he seemed to have succeeded in saying what he meant with the greatest clearness, again unsatisfied, to seek still more exact and evident renderings for his fundamental position, which proved so difficult to formulate.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

"That is unwise of him," Mr. Farrington commented, "Did you bring him to a better way of thinking?"
— from Phebe, Her Profession A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book by Anna Chapin Ray

De Fleury, Colonel D., at storming of Stony Point in 1779, 178; Awarded Medal by Congress--Biographical Sketch of, 181.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

I saw again from the edge of the moor that lone figure coming down the hillside towards us, I saw that strange light flashing in my father’s face, and I heard the greeting of the two men.
— from The Yellow House; Master of Men by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

of the fatal cases die within the week.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

"Why this frown, fair Coz?" demanded Roger in a Shakesperean tone.
— from Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

Nothing could surpass Marmont’s beautiful manœuvring for consecutive days while moving round the British flank, except the countervailing rapidity with which his talented opponent defeated every effort to outflank him, and held the marshal constantly in check.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood