The person of the house was the person of a house full of sordid shames and cares, with an upper room in which that abased figure was infecting even innocent sleep with sensual brutality and degradation.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Even Ali, who had hastened to obey the Count’s summons, went forth from his master’s presence in charmed amazement at the unusual animation and pleasure depicted on features ordinarily so stern and cold; while, as though dreading to put to flight the agreeable ideas hovering over his patron’s meditations, whatever they were, the faithful Nubian walked on tiptoe towards the door, holding his breath, lest its faintest sound should dissipate his master’s happy reverie.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The Monuments of their Admirals, which have been erected at the publick Expence, represent them like themselves; and are adorned with rostral Crowns and naval Ornaments, with beautiful Festoons of Seaweed , Shells, and Coral.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

As the love which Blifil had for Sophia was of that violent kind, which nothing but the loss of her fortune, or some such accident, could lessen, his inclination to the match was not at all altered by her having run away, though he was obliged to lay this to his own account.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Caer sidi, the zodiac Sidin, a. winding, revolving Sidydd, n. zodiac, ecliptic Sidyll, n. a whirl, a twirl; a rim Siff, n. an intermitting noise Siffro, v. to rustle, to murmur Sig, n. a shatter, a bruise Sigiad, n. bruising, shattering Sigl, n. a shake, a stir Siglaethan, play or swinging Sigledd, n. a rocking state Siglen, n. a swing, a quag Siglo, v. to shake, to rock Sigo, v. to shock, to bruise Sil, n. issue; seedling; spawn, fry; hulling of grain Silen, n. seedling; single fry Siliant, n. spawning; hulling of corn Sïlied, n. what is produced; hulled corn Silio, v. to spawn; to hull grain Silod, n. seedlings; spawn; fry Silodi, v. to issue seedlings Silodyn, n. single one of a fry Silyn, n. a seedling; a fry Sill, Syllaf, n. a component part; a syllable Silleb, n. a syllable Sillebu, Silliadu, v. to spell Silliad, n. a forming of syllables Silliadaeth, Sillyddiaeth, n. a syllabic system Sillio, v. to arrange parts Sillt, n. an element; a syllable Silltiad, n. a joining of elements Sim, n. what is flippant or light Simach, n. a monkey, an ape Simdde, n. a chimney Simer, n. levity; a frisk Simera, v. to frisk, to dally Simp, n. a fickle state; a flutter Sin, n. a surface; alms Sindal, n. fine linen, cambric Sindw, n. scoria, cinders Sinid, n. surface, scum Sinidr, n. scoria, dross Sinidro, v. to form dross Sinio, v. to reduce to scoria Sïo, v. to hiss, to whiz Siobyn, n. a small tuft Sioch, n. what is bushy Siochi, v. to make bushy Sïol, a. hissing, whizzing Siom, n. void; disappointment Siomgar, a. apt to disappoint Siomi, v. to disappoint Siomiant, n. disappointment Sionc, a. brisk, nimble, sharp Sioncedd, n. briskness Sionci, v. to become brisk Sipiad, n. a sipping Sipian, v. to keep sipping Sipio, v. to draw the lips, to sip Sipyn, n. a single sip, a sip Sir, n. a shire, a county: n. cheer, solace, comfort Sirion, n. cherries Sirio, v. to cheer, to solace Siriol, a. cheering, solacing Sirioldeb, n. cheerfulness Sirioli, v. to make cheerful Sis, n. a loud sound, a whisper Sisial, n. a whisper, a gossip Sisiala, v. to keep whispering Sisialu, v. to whisper, to mutter Sitell, n. a whisk round Sitellu, v. to whisk round Sitio, v. to whirl, to whisk Sitrachog, a. jagged, sheddred Sitrachu, v. to jag, to shred Siw, n. a hiss, a hush, a buzz Siwen, n. the mermaid Sob, n. a tuft, a mass Soba, Soban, n. a small bunch Sobr, a. temperate sober Sobrwydd, n. sobriety, temperance Socan, n. wallower Socyn, n. a pig; a little urchin Soch, n. a sink, a drain Sodi, v. to constitute, to fix Sodli, v. to heel, to trip the heel Sodlog, a. having a heel Sodol, a. tending to fix or settle Sodwedd, a. characteristic Soddedigaeth, n. act of sinking Soddi, v. to sink, to submerge Soddol, a sinking, plunging Soddwr, n. a sinker Soeg, grains of malt after brewing, draff Soegen, n. a swaggy female Soegi, v. to steep; to slabber Soeglyd, a. puffed by steeping Sofl, n. standing studdle Sôg, n. a wallowing, a spreading Soga, wallowing; slovenly Sôn, n. report, rumor, mentioning Soniwr, n. mentioner, talker Sopen, n. a mass squeezed together Sopenu, v. to bundle Sopiad, n. a bundling Sor, n. a chafed state; sullenness Sori, v. to chafe; to offend, to sulk Soriad, n. a chafing; an offending Soriant, sulleness; offence Sorllyd, a. apt to grow sullen Sorod, n. dregs, dross Sorodi, v. to yeld dregs Sorth, a. sudden; fell; slothful Sothach, n. refuse, dross Su, n. what pervades; a buzz Suad, n. a buzzing; a lulling Sucan, n. steeping, small beer, washbrew, gruel, flummny Sudd, n. what pervades; juice Suddas, n. sinking, immersion Suddiad, a sinking, a plunging Suddiant, n. perversion of moisture Suddo, v. to sink in, to sink Suddol, a. pervading; sinking Sug, n. a suck; juice sap Sugaethan, n. candle, poultice Suger, n. extracted juice; cyder Sugiad, n. a becoming juicy Suglian, n. drawing plaister Sugnbeirlnt, n. a pump Sugnbib, n. a syringe Sugndraeth, n. quicksand Sugnedydd, n. sucker; pump Sugno, v. to suck, to imbibe Sugnol, a. sucking, imbibing Sugoli, v. to render succulent Sugr, n. extracted juice, sugar Sugro, v. to sugar, to sweeten Sugrol, a. saccharine; sugary Sul, n. what extends round; the Sun.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Image to yourself, my dear Letty, a spacious garden, part laid out in delightful walks, bounded with high hedges and trees, and paved with gravel; part exhibiting a wonderful assemblage of the most picturesque and striking objects’ pavilions, lodges, groves, grottoes, lawns, temples and cascades; porticoes, colonades, and rotundos; adorned with pillars, statues, and painting: the whole illuminated with an infinite number of lamps, disposed in different figures of suns, stars, and constellations; the place crowded with the gayest company, ranging through those blissful shades, or supping in different lodges on cold collations, enlivened with mirth, freedom, and good humour, and animated by an excellent band of music.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

This curious structure was contrived by an augustine friar named Michael Bougeois, it is composed of timber, regularly paved, in squares which contain the stones , and is 1000 [5] feet in length; it commences from the middle of the quay of Rouen, and reaches over to the Fauxbourg of St. Sever, and carries on the communication with the country which lies south of the city.
— from The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot. by Carr, John, Sir

And in a breath of time we floated downwards and alighted on a broad and beautiful plain, where flowers of strange shape and colour grew in profusion.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

They were bearing to him a secret message from his government, and he had ridden to Manabad to there take it from them lest in approaching the city of the Peshwa, full of seditious spies and cutthroats, the paper might be stolen.
— from Caste by William Alexander Fraser

Clattering down the long flights of stone stairs, and converging across the barrack-square, the Legionaries came running from all directions, to gaze upon, to chaff, to delude, to sponge upon, and to rob and swindle the "Blues"--the recruits of the Légion Étrangère , the embryo Légionnaires d'Afrique .
— from The Wages of Virtue by Percival Christopher Wren

Since dunes travel and since their front layers, formed on steep slopes, are cut off to the level of the surface in the rear of the dune, it follows that the steepest dips in exposed sections are almost always less than those in existing dunes.
— from The Andes of Southern Peru Geographical Reconnaissance along the Seventy-Third Meridian by Isaiah Bowman

Over and over again did we, from our shelter, see a cloud of dust rise amongst the guns, now in front, now between them, now in rear; and yet the little black specks ran unconcernedly from the guns to the limbers and back again, and every now and then, with a sheet of flame and a muffled roar, did the gunners send back their defying answer to their hidden enemies.
— from Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

But, master, first let me tell you, that very hour which you were absent from me, I sat down under a willow tree by the waterside, and considered what you had told me of the owner of that pleasant meadow in which you then had left me; that he had a plentiful estate, and not a heart to think so; that he had at this time many law-suits depending, and that they both damped his mirth and took up so much of his time and thoughts that he had no leisure to take the sweet content that I, who pretended no title to them, took in his fields: for I could there sit quietly; and looking on the water, see some fishes sport themselves in the silver streams, others leaping at flies of several shapes and colours; looking on the hills, I could behold them spotted with woods and groves; looking down the meadows, could see, here a boy gathering lilies and lady-smocks, and there a girl cropping culverlocks and cowslips, all to make garlands suitable to this present month of May.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The furniture consists of the family-bed, formed of straw, sacks and coverlets, or according to the circumstances of the possessor, of feather-beds and bolsters, with covers ornamented with coloured stitch-work, which are objects of extraordinary luxury.
— from Austria containing a Description of the Manners, Customs, Character and Costumes of the People of that Empire by Frederic Shoberl

If you possess the generally recognized fundamentals of success; such as characteristic honesty, intelligence, energy, etc., you are not handicapped for want of a market.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

These deposits consisted of porcelain clays, yellow and white sands, and "burrstone," a flinty grit used for millstones, which often was full of silicified shells and corals, with the teeth of sharks and the bones of zeuglodon.
— from Charles Lyell and Modern Geology by T. G. (Thomas George) Bonney