This, then, may both serve as an additional argument for the present system, and may give us a notion after what manner our reasonings from causation are able to operate on the will and passions.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Come, let us go up above now and see the dinner-tables for the large tenants.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

They have given the world a new conception of both infancy and adolescence, and shed much new light upon characterology; given us a new and clearer view of sleep, dreams, reveries, and revealed hitherto unknown mental mechanisms common to normal and pathological states and processes, showing that the law of causation extends to the most incoherent acts and even verbigerations in insanity; gone far to clear up the terra incognita of hysteria; taught us to recognize morbid symptoms, often neurotic and psychotic in their germ; revealed the operations of the primitive mind so overlaid and repressed that we had almost lost sight of them; fashioned and used the key of symbolism to unlock many mysticisms of the past; and in addition to all this, affected thousands of cures, established a new prophylaxis, and suggested new tests for character, disposition, and ability, in all combining the practical and theoretic to a degree salutary as it is rare.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I go upon a naked and moderate calculation, just enough, without a pedantical exactness, to give your lordship some feeling of the effects of political society.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The truth is, if poetry gives us a noble assemblage of Page 280 words corresponding to many noble ideas, which are connected by circumstances of time or place, or related to each other as cause and effect, or associated in any natural way, they may be moulded together in any form, and perfectly answer their end.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Got up at nine, and went down to the Hummums for a bath.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

This gave us a novel and somewhat embarrassing sense of importance.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

a. undescending Annistrywiol, a. undestructive Anniwair, a. unclean, unchaste Anniwallus, a. unsatiating Anniweirdeb, n. incontinence Anniwyd, a. indolent Anniwygiol, a. unreforming Anniwylledig, a. uncultivated Annodi, v. to suspend Annoeth, a. unwise, imprudent Annoethineb, n. indiscretion Annofi, v. to become refractory Annog, n. incitement; v. to indite; to exhort Annogaeth, n. admonition Annogedig, a. incited; admonished Annogiad, n. an inciting Annogol, a. inciting Annolurus, a. unpainful Annoniog, a. giftless, unskilful Annos, n. a driving; v. to drive to chase Annuw, a. atheistic; faithless Annuwiaeth, n. atheism Annuwiol, a. ungodly, wicked Annuwioldeb, n. ungodliness Annwfn, n. the great deep Annwyd, n. a cold, a chillness Cael yr annwyd, to catch cold Annwydaidd, a. chilly, cold Annwydedd, n. chilliness Annwydog, a. cold, chilly Annyben, a. void of purpose; endless Annybendod, n. endlessness; tediousness Annybenol, a. inconclusive Annyblyg, a. unfolded Annychweladwy, a. irreversible Annychymygol, a. unimaginary Annyddan, a. comfortless Annyfal, a. lazy, heedless Annyfodadwy, a. inaccessable Annyfrol, a. not watery Annyffygadwy, a. indefectible Annygymodol, a. unconciliatory Annyledus, a. unincumbent Annylyedog, a. not having claim Annylynol, a. inconseguent Annymchweladwy, a. not returnable Annymunol, a. undesirable Annynsoddol, a. impersonal Annynwaredol, a. unimitative Annyoddefadwy, a. unsufferable Annyolchgar, a. unthankful Annyrchafedig, a. unexalted Annysbeidiol, a. unintermitting Annysbendawd, n. inconclusiveness Annysgedig, a. unlearned Annysglaer, a. not bright Annysgwyliad, n. inexpectation Annystaw, a. not silent Annyundeb, n. disagreement Annyunol, a. disagreeable Annywedadwy, a. unspeakable Annyweddog, a. unconjugal Annywyllyniog, a. uncultivated Anobaith, n. hopelessness Anobeithiad, n. desperation Anobeithio, v. to despair Anobeithlon, a. unhopeful Anobrwy, a. unrequited Anobryn, a. void of reward Anocheladwy, a. unavoidable Anodidog, a. unexelling Anodinebus, a. unadulterous Anoddefadwy, a. insufferable Anoeth, n. incomprehensibility Anofal, a. careless; imprudent Anofidiol, a. untroubled Anofnog, Anofnus, a. fearless Anofwyedig, a. unvisited Anofynol, a. uninquisitive Anogonol, a. inglorious Anohebol, a. uncorresponding Anolau, a. indistinct; dark Anolrhain, a. trackless Anoludog, a. poor, not rich Anoluddiol, a. unobstructed Anolygiadol, a. unspeculative Anolygus, a. unsightly
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

“I pray the god of love,” she added, “to grant us a night as beautiful as this day has been.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Achilles glanced up and nodded, and the little smile on his dark face grew.
— from Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light.
— from A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The keys of Azoph, which had been so long withheld from the basha, who was to have taken possession of that place for the sultan, his master, were now given up; and, notwithstanding all the endeavours of the king of Sweden, the intrigues of his friends at the Ottoman Porte, and even some menaces of a new war on the part of the Turks, both that nation and the Russian empire continued at peace.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

"Then I tell you, Drew, we three have been shipmates many years now, and you shall have the old Seabird as she stands; and if you don't want to better yourself--you are too young a man to retire--you shall get us a new and a better boat, and be our captain still."
— from The Duke's Sweetheart: A Romance by Richard Dowling

Very soon a bold egregious wether jumped the fence into the Higher Criticism, and gave us a new and amazing interpretation of the culminating line in Crossing the Bar .
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

At last she got up and nodded at me two or three times silently, with a smile, as if she were applauding me for a solo on the violin.
— from Eugene Pickering by Henry James

The flat-featured disappeared with his porpoise face under the bed-clothes and breathed hard, but kept close; and when he fell asleep he dreamed of dragons and green umbrellas all night, at a fearful rate.
— from Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family by Cornelius Mathews

He gave us a nod as we entered the stubble-field; and I think he would have come to meet us but that he was in the middle of giving some directions to his men.
— from Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

It gives us a new, and quite an uncommon interest in the dinner.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

We've got up a new and superior kind of perfumery, which we sell by agents.
— from Tom, The Bootblack; or, The Road to Success by Alger, Horatio, Jr.