Regular shipments of coffee from Dutch Guiana have been made for two centuries, beginning—a few years after the plant was introduced—with a shipment of 6,461 pounds to the mother country in 1723.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The four Danish girls lived with the laundryman and his wife in their house behind the laundry, with a big garden where the clothes were hung out to dry.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

“I am agreeably struck by your inclination for drawing generalizations, and the sketch of my character you have just drawn is simply brilliant.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

nying, negative Gwadu, v. to deny; to disown Gwadd, n. a mole Gwaddeg, n. a spout; a scuttle Gwaddod, n. sediment, lees Gwaddodi, v. to cast a sedement Gwaddodlyd, a. feculent, dreggy Gwaddol, n. a portion; money Gwaddoli, v. to dower Gwae, n. woe Gwaed, n. blood or gore Gwaedboer, n. blood-spitting Gwaedgi, n. a blood-hound Gwaedglais, n. blood stripe Gwaedgoll, n. bloodshed Gwaediad, n. a bleeding Gwaedled, bloody, blood-stained Gwaedlif, n. a bloody-flux Gwaedlin, n. an issue of blood Gwaedlyd, a. bloody; cruel Gwaedlydu, to stain with blood Gwaedlys, n. blood-wort Gwaedneu, n. a blood issue Gwaedog, abounding with blood Gwaedogaeth, n. sanguinity Gwaedogen, n. a blood pudding, a black pudding Gwaedoli, v. to sanguify Gwaedol, sanguineous of blood Gwaedoliaeth, n. kindred by blood, consanguinity Gwaedraidd, a. running with blood Gwaedrod, n. a course of blood Gwaedu, v. to bleed, to let blood Gwaedd, n. a cry, a shout Gwaeddan, n. a bawler Gwaeddfan, a. loud shouting Gwaeddgreg, a. hoarse shouting Gwaeddi, v. to cry, to shout Gwaeddiad, n. a crying out Gwaeddolef, n. a cry a woe Gwaefyd, n. a state of woe Gwäeg, n. a fibula; a clasp Gwäegiad, n. a buckling Gwäegu, v. to buckle; to clasp Gwael, a. low, vile; poorly Gwaeledd, n. vileness; misery Gwaeleddu, v. to make wretched Gwaelni, vileness; wretchedness Gwaelod, n. a bottom, a base Gwaelodi, v. to bottom Gwaelodiad, n. a bottoming Gwaelodion, n. bottoms Gwaelu, v. to grow low or poor; to become faint Gwaeddol, a. crying, shouting Gwaeu, v. to make vile Gwäell, gwëyll, n. a skewer, a broach; a knitting needle; a spindle.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Old Cant , from the French DONNEZ , give; or from Joe Din , or Dun , a famous bailiff; or simply a corruption of DIN , from the Anglo-Saxon DUNAN , to clamour.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

godðrymnes f. divine glory , AS 9 4 ? godwebb n. fine cloth, purple , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

SYN: Forethought, timely care, forecast, divine government, divine superintendence.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Lying is a disgraceful vice, "affording testimony," as Plutarch says, "that one first despises God and then fears men."
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Only within a few days, gentlemen fresh from travel through these States have assured me, that, as they saw the condition of things there, nothing pressed upon their minds more than the necessity of such a provision.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 14 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

It was he who certified “Goddedaal” unfit to be moved and smuggled Carthew ashore under cloud of night; it was he who kept Wicks's wound open that he might sign with his left hand; he who took all their Chile silver and (in the course of the first day) got it converted for them into portable gold.
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

vii., p. 206.).—In reply to Elginensis I send you a quotation from Dr. Golding Bird's Natural Philosophy in explanation of this well-known phenomenon: "One very remarkable phenomenon connected with the escape of a current of air under considerable pressure, must not be passed over silently.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 180, April 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

It was a pity that Del Ferice and Donna Tullia were not allies, for if Madame Mayer hated Corona d'Astrardente, Ugo del Ferice detested Giovanni with equal virulency, not only because he had been so terribly worsted by him in the duel his own vile conduct had made inevitable, but because Donna Tullia loved him and was doing her very best to marry him.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Whistling softly to himself, he laughed at all misfortunes, assuring me that we should very soon find drier ground, and that before dawn I should meet Sonia Korolénko, who was awaiting me.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

Heauens face doth glow, [Sidenote: dooes] Yea this solidity and compound masse, [Sidenote: Ore this] With tristfull visage as against the doome, [Sidenote: with heated visage,] Is thought-sicke at the act.[10]
— from The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark A Study with the Text of the Folio of 1623 by William Shakespeare

“Stop at that confectioner's,” she directed, indicating a window filled with candies scattered in a creamy tide, bister, pale mauve, and citrine, over fluted, delicately green satin, against a golden mass of molasses bars.
— from The Lay Anthony: A Romance by Joseph Hergesheimer

I have used my best efforts, with the aid of my eldest son, F. D. Grant, assisted by his brothers, to verify from the records every statement of fact given.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Part 1. by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant