The stout turnkey having been relieved from the lock, sat down, and looked at him carelessly, from time to time, while a long thin man who had relieved him, thrust his hands beneath his coat tails, and planting himself opposite, took a good long view of him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

And whenever you get long vertical lines in a composition, no matter whether it be a cathedral interior, a pine forest, or a row of scaffold poles, you will always have the particular feeling associated with rows of vertical lines in the abstract.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

p. 832,) a zealous Guelph, the subjects of Charles, who had reviled Mainfroy as a wolf, began to regret him as a lamb; and he justifies their discontent by the oppressions of the French government, (l. vi. c. 2, 7.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

pen = penn pending , pene(n)g, penig = pening pening m. ‘ penny ,’ coin, money , Æ, Cp, Ct, G, LL (v. 2·614): pennyweight , Lcd . pening-hwyrfere , -mangere m. money-changer , WW.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Like to take a good long vacation.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Note 45 ( return ) [ Nicephorus Gregoras (l. v. c. 6) admires the wisdom of Providence in this equal balance of states and princes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It was a hasty note to inform Louisa that Mrs. Gradgrind lay very ill.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

[95] The feeling of the Congress expressed itself thus cautiously:—“Messieurs les plénipotentiaires n’hésitent pas à exprimer, au nom de leur gouvernements, le voeu, que les Etats entre lesquels s’éléverait un dissentiment sérieux, avant d’en appeler aux armes, eussent recours, en tant que les circonstances l’admettraient, aux bons offices d’une puissance amie.”
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

a. prospering Llwyddiannus, a. fortunate Llwyddo, v. to prosper Llwyddol, a. prosperous, lucky Llwyeidio, v. to take a spoonful Llwyf, Llwyfan, n. a form, a frame; a loft, a platform Llwyfanen, Llwyfen, n. the elm Llwyfo, v. to make a platform Llwyg, n. a turn round; a mite Llwygiad, n. a mazing Llwygiant, a turning; a maze Llwygo, v. to turn round; to be in a maze; to be restive Llwygol, a. being mazed; restive Llwyn, n. a quick turn; a quirk; the loin; a grove; a bush Llwynhidl, n. the ribwort Llwyniad, n. a giving a turn Llwynin, a. apt to turn; of the grove Llwyno, v. to give a motion Llwynog, a. of the grove; a fox Llwynogaidd, a. like a fox, foxy Llwynoges, n. a bitch fox Llwynogwydd, n. a burgander Llwynogyn, n. a young fox Llwyo, v. to use a spoon Llwyr, a. utter, quite clean Llwyrbris, n. full purchase Llwyrdeb, n. completeness Llwyrdda, a. completely good Llwyrddrwg, a. completely bad Llwyredd, n. entireness Llwyrles, n. universal benefit Llwyrwad, n. complete denial Llwyrwaith, n. complete work Llwyrwys, n. a general summons Llwys, a. clear,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Bits of rosemary and geranium, lemon verbena, tuberose, and heliotrope, fragile and whitened, but still sweet, fall from the opened letters and rustle softly as they fall.
— from Threads of Grey and Gold by Myrtle Reed

La Gioconda , Leonardo, vi, 59.
— from Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

It was a pretty, soft, kindly English landscape, like a good and gentle life, very reposeful and pleasant to {25} see, but not dramatic or exciting.
— from Two Strangers by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

E gia` la vita di quel lume santo rivolta s'era al Sol che la riempie come
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

[Joe HIGGINS]; The Workers' Party [Mick FINNEGAN] Isle of Man Alliance for Progressive Government; Liberal Vannin Party
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Such a paper as the London "Times," having nothing higher than avaricious commerce and national pride to consult, in a conspicuous centre of affairs has thus become the great weathercock of the world, splendidly gilded, lifted very high in the air, but, like some other stupid chanticleers, crowing at false signals of the dawn, and well called the "Times," as in its columns nothing eternal was ever evinced.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Ltr. Gryllus L. —— Vigorsii iv.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

As they made their way southward, the wind grew less violent.
— from The Strife of the Sea by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains