ætsteall m. assistance, meeting with hostile intent (GK): station, camp station (BT),
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

I don't care to read, but I'd like to have you talk to me, for it seems as if I'd known you a long time and it does me good," said Christie, as she settled herself and baby on the old settee which had served as a cradle for six young Wilkinses, and now received the honorable name of sofa in its old age.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

And the glance she cast round her slowly fell upon the old man in the cassock.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot[obs3], langrage shot[obs3], round shot, chain shot; balista[obs3], ballista[obs3], slung shot, trebucbet[obs3], trebucket[obs3]; bullet, slug, stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve[obs3], congreve rocket[obs3]; shrapnel, mitraille[Fr]; levin bolt[obs3], levin brand[obs3]; thunderbolt.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Scho , sb. shoe, W2; schoo , C, Prompt.; schon , pl. , S2, S3; schone , S, W; schoon , S2, W, G; shoon , C2, W; shon , PP.—AS. scéoh , pl. scéos , gen. pl. scéona .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The talk being long and the heat great, she called for Greek wine and confections and let give Andreuccio to drink, after which he would have taken leave, for that it was supper-time; but she would on no wise suffer it and making a show of being sore vexed, embraced him and said, 'Ah, woe is me!
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

And good sense cannot lie.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To the man there is growth, struggle, conquest, the establishment of his family, and as much further success in gain or ambition as he can achieve.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"Not quite what is generally so called.
— from L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

"His Majesty does not think so—he insists that the Colonel of the Blue Guards should conform to the regulations.
— from The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott

He expressed himself in the strongest language concerning the danger to the royal cause from the weak and gradually sinking condition of the army.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

If the birds flew back to Earth, and left him there, what would his grandfather say? "Come back, come back!"
— from American Indian Fairy Tales by W. T. (William Trowbridge) Larned

"Go and see Madame Pallois," said Babet: "go," she continued impatiently, as if eager to get rid of her, and as the child arose to depart she added with much emotion— "
— from Moral Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

The town of Guayaquil stands close to the river, being partly built on an ascent, and partly at the foot of a small hill, having a steep descent to the river.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

For heating the soldering copper, a heater of some kind, such as a blue flame kerosene stove, gas furnace or common one-burner gas stove, charcoal furnace, or gasoline plumbers’ torch with attachments for holding copper.
— from Making Tin Can Toys by Edward Thatcher