If Lear, Gloster and Albany are set apart, the rest fall into two distinct groups, which are strongly, even violently, contrasted: Cordelia, Kent, Edgar, the Fool on one side, Goneril, Regan, Edmund, Cornwall, Oswald on the other.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

[ blīðe ] ± blissian (intr.) to be glad, rejoice, exult , CP, Lk ; Æ: (tr.) make happy, gladden, endow , † Hy : applaud , ANS 109·306.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

French Globular Roaster Edwin Crawley and W.T. Johnston, Newport, Ky., assignors to the Potter-Parlin Co., New York, were granted four United States patents on gas coffee-roasting machines.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Dr. Smith, in his Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, says, “We think that Ukert has satisfactorily shown an accurate description of a place should be particular to add its astronomical and geometrical relations, explaining carefully its extent, distance, degrees of latitude, and temperature of atmosphere.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

go round; encircle &c. 227; describe a circle &c. 311.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

The Guard-room. I. The sun, awakening, through the smoky air Of the dark city casts a sullen glance, Rousing each caitiff to his task of care, Of sinful man the sad inheritance; Summoning revellers from the lagging dance, Scaring the prowling robber to his den; Gilding on battled tower the warder's lance, And warning student pale to leave his pen, And yield his drowsy eyes to the kind nurse of men.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

+) sv 5 w. in or g. to be glad, rejoice, exult , CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

‘ De Kirillov, gentilhomme russe et citoyen du monde. ’
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is observable ( a ) that this occurs at the period when that power would appear in the East as advancing in its conquests to the West; ( b ) that it was in the vicinity of the great river Euphrates; ( c ) that it had never before occurred—the Turkish power having been before united as one; and ( d ) that it never afterwards occurred—for, in the words of Mr. Gibbon, “after the death of Malek the bands of union and subordination were relaxed and finally dissolved.”
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

In order to maintain the initiative, Lieutenant General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., who had relieved General Walt as CG, III MAF in June, drew down on certain units to provide sufficient infantry strength for other operations.
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

212 The holds are not particularly good, and the steepness of the gully renders extreme caution necessary.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones

They had a daughter Mary, who was married to Sir Edvard Herbert, son of the first earl of Pembroke, and from that match are descended the earls of Pembroke and countess of Powis, Hans Stanley, Esq, George Rice, Esq. &c.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole

Lake deposits formed under arid climates that cause the waters to become saline; it appears that only in salty waters (not over 4 per cent?) are the bituminous materials made and preserved in the form of kerogen, the source of petroleum; some of the Green River (Eocene) continental deposits (the oil shales of Utah and Colorado) may be of saline lakes.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

I., p. 235, and Gayley, Representative English Comedies , p. 412.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

In general, real estate consists of land, things attached to it, such as trees, buildings, fences and certain rights and profits arising out of or annexed to the land.
— from The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

“You can gamble this is a squar' game,” replies Enright confidently.
— from Sandburrs by Alfred Henry Lewis

Che i Greci rotti, e che
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt