= KEY: Gut \v.\. SYN: Disembowel, eviscerate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

‘O, go way, Missis,’ said I; ‘it really hurts my feelin’s, now, to see good vittles spilt dat ar way!
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

He was witty, well-educated, and extremely wealthy, as the general very soon discovered.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My God!” Vladimir Semyonitch dropped his pen and slowly looked round at his sister.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Also, their effect was irritating, for Cherokee began to growl, very softly, deep down in his throat.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Thus good Válmíki, sage divine, Rehearsed the tale of Raghu's line, As Nárad, heavenly saint, before Had traced the story's outline o'er.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Some of the ladies, especially those who came from a distance, made their appearance in the gallery very smartly dressed, but the majority of the ladies were oblivious even of dress.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A crow in his fright , flying over the Fleet, Dropped something, that covered it all, like a sheet.” In contemporary accounts, the “Naumachia” was generally very summarily dismissed, and the following is, perhaps, one of the best of them.
— from Hyde Park from Domesday-book to Date by John Ashton

THE HOME OF THE PAST V. A FACE FROM THE GRAVE VI. STRUCK DOWN VII.
— from Wyllard's Weird: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

‘I am baying you goot vages,’ said Darco.
— from Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray

For a moment she paused, gazing wonderingly about her at the great vaulted station, dazed by its noise, bustle, and turmoil.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

The people of these islands and their sons and brothers and friends and kinsfolk in Canada, in Australia, and in New Zealand have declared with a general voice, scarcely disturbed by a discord, that they are fellow-subjects of a single sovereign, that they are united in feeling, united in loyalty, united in interest, and that they wish and mean to preserve unbroken the integrity of the British Empire.
— from The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude