twǣming f. parting, division, separation , Æ: distinction , Æ. twǣonung = twēonung twām v. twēgen .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The student must have praised the weather and compared it with the climate of Petersburg, for Pyotr Dmitritch said in a loud voice, in a tone as though he were not speaking to a guest, but to an usher of the court or a witness: “What!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Gutta fortunæ præ dolio sapientiæ —A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom.
— 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.

[64-2] —Allí lo conocí, porque intimó con Juan, mi asistente de toda la vida, o de toda mi 05 carrera; y cuando Napoleón tuvo la crueldad de llevar a Rusia, formando parte de su Grande Ejército, a todos los españoles que estábamos prisioneros en su poder, tomé de ordenanza a Risas .
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

ANT: Loss, forfeiture, privation, deprival, sacrifice, abandonment, relapse, retrogression, decay, declension, incurableness, ruin.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Feasting, drinking, ribaldry, laughter, go on alongside of all sorts of other occupations in Vanity Fair—the crowds were pouring out of church as Rawdon and his friend passed down St. James's Street and entered into their Club.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

His goods, which nature, that willeth the preservation of all mankind as much as is possible, hath made to belong to the children to keep them from perishing, do still continue to belong to his children: for supposing them not to have joined in the war, either thro' infancy, absence, or choice, they have done nothing to forfeit them: nor has the conqueror any right to take them away, by the bare title of having subdued him that by force attempted his destruction; though perhaps he may have some right to them, to repair the damages he has sustained by the war, and the defence of his own right; which how far it reaches to the possessions of the conquered, we shall see by and by.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

La collection est publiée sous l'égide FTR&D. Elle réunit des ouvrages rédigés en langue française par des spécialistes de centres de recherches, de l'université et de l'industrie des télécommunications.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Feye , adj. dead, doomed to death, feeble, S, S2, MD; fey , JD, HD; fay , MD; fæie , pl. dead, S, MD; fæiȝe , MD.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

For poor Drummond's story was known everywhere, and his miserable fate, and the discussion in the newspapers.
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Since their conservation is a continued creation, and since all human creatures in the world must confess that they cannot co-operate with God at the first moment of their existence, either to produce themselves or to give themselves any modality, since that would be to act before being (observe that Thomas Aquinas and sundry other Schoolmen teach that if the angels had sinned at the first moment of their creation God would be the author of the sin: see the Feuillant Pierre de St. Joseph, p. 318, et seqq ., of the Suavis Concordia Humanae Libertatis ; it is a sign that they acknowledge that at the first instant the creature cannot act in anything whatsoever), it follows manifestly that they cannot co-operate with God in any one of the subsequent moments, either to produce themselves or to produce any other thing.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

Cette réclamation nous a été communiquée par la rédaction du journal la Presse , et nous avons désiré qu'elle fût publiée dans son intégralité.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. IV, 1830 to 1831 by Alexandre Dumas

Even people who are not tainted with a love of the “Noble Art of Self-defence” must have heard of Jem Belcher, John Gully, page to George IV., and M.P. for Pontefract; Dutch Sam, Tom Crib, and his black adversary Thomas Molineaux; these names are as familiar to every schoolboy as those of the Homeric heroes.
— from The Dawn of the XIXth Century in England: A social sketch of the times by John Ashton

The following physical defects (some of which have been remedied wholly or in part) come under my observation: general weakness, weak chest (respiratory organs), bent carriage of the body, stiffness of wrist, joints, and clumsy movements of fingers, spinal curvature, extreme (comparative) development of right arm.
— from A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll

French Parc de Siége, one 21 cwt. ditto, one 16 cwt. ditto, one 533·00 kilos.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir

So Jack dug with me, and very hard work he found it, and very stiff he felt at the end of the first profitless day; so that I was able to screw out of him a kind of apology for his want of sympathy with my stiffness at Ngami.
— from Clutterbuck's Treasure by Frederick Whishaw

[67] No other material is thus reckoned from primitive days sacred and divine, unless it be blood, which is the synonym of life.
— from The Covenant of Salt As Based on the Significance and Symbolism of Salt in Primitive Thought by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull