SAVEY, to know; “do you SAVEY that?”— French , SAVEZ VOUS CELA ?
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Rib. Section 7: "Qui filios non habuerit et aliurn quemlibet heredem facere sibi voluerit coram rege . . .
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A moment later he felt suddenly very cold.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

So very weak and spent, she felt, so very calm and unresisting, that she had no thought of any wants of her own, but prayed that God would raise up some friend for him.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The belief is said to constitute knowledge of this fact, provided it fulfils those further somewhat vague conditions which we have been considering in the present chapter.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

SYN: Judgment, fate, sentence, verdict, condemnation, lot, destiny.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Nowhere had the new forces so vigorously corrected the errors of the old, or so effectively redressed the balance of the ecliptic.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

For subsequent visitations, cf.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

The practice of his profession had given him keen eyes in the dark; he discovered Beaumaroy's tall figure stealing very cautiously down the narrow, flagged path.
— from Beaumaroy Home from the Wars by Anthony Hope

There was no carpet, but the floor seemed very clean.
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

Always Ready for Food ¶ Substantial viands can be served to him any hour of the day or night with the certainty of pleasing him.
— from How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types by Elsie Lincoln Benedict

This second Part of the Map of Virginia , compiled, and perhaps added to, by Richard Pots , ... tested and revised by the Rev. William Simmonds , D. D. , ... and published by T. Abbay ; is a condensed summary of the sayings and writings of the following seven Virginian Colonists: Gentlemen.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

It is certain that all the members of the bar of that day, as did all of the merchants, died poor with two prominent exceptions; and when we reflect that those two men held the front rank at the bar, one of them at least twenty years, the other near thirty, and neither on his withdrawal could be deemed wealthy, the inference is irresistible that, though now and then in that interval a big fee came rolling in from some vessel caught in the act of violating the embargo, or, at a much later date, from some prize case in the war between Spain and her South American colonies, the rewards of legal merit were low.
— from Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby

“Come, brother physic, come along then,” said Mr Wallace, as they stepped into the carriage which had brought the party from Sea View Cottage.
— from Roger Kyffin's Ward by William Henry Giles Kingston