But then his process was just as thoroughly experiential as that of a scientist who says that a bird has never yet been observed to give birth to living young, and that hence all birds lay eggs.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

and Gabrielle d’Estrees--as good-natured, as brave, as proud, and above all, as Gascon as his ancestor, but less elaborately educated.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

He also bought large estates in various parts of France; the chief of which were the baronies of St. Fargeau, Meneton, Salone, Maubranche, Meaune, St. Gerant de Vaux, and St. Aon de Boissy; the earldoms or counties of La Palisse, Champignelle, Beaumont, and Villeneuve la Genêt, and the marquisate of Toucy.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

she, her Hic, n. a snap; a trick Hiced, n. a trick, cheat Hicell, n. a long handled bill Hicio, v. to snap; to trick Hid, a. aptness to run through Hidl, a. distilling; shedding: n. a strainer, a colander Hidlaid, a. distilling, dropping; n. a distilling, a dropping Hidlion, n. droppings Hidlo, v. to distil, to run Hif, n. a skin, a surface Hifiad, n. the peeling of the skin Hifio, v. to peel off the skin Hifyn, n. the strip of skin Hiff, n. a flake; a drift Hiffiad, n. a flaking; a drifting Hiffiant, n. a drift; a foam Hiffio, v. to cast flakes; to drift Hifl, n. a gush, a spirt Hifflaid, Hifflo, to gush, to spirt Hiffliad, n. a spirting Hiffyn, n. a flake; a drift Hil, n. a fragment; emanation; produce; issue; progency Hilen, n. a bearing female Hiliad, n. a producing, a generating Hiliant, n. issue, progenry Hilig, a. procreate: n. an issue Hilio, v. to yield, to bring forth, to produce Hiogaeth, n. offspring, issue Hiliogi, v. to render prolific Hilus, a. being in particles Hilyn, n. a particle, emanation Hin, n. weather; temperature Hindda, n. fair weather Hinio, v. to change the weather Hiniog, n. a door-frame; a sill Hinon, n. serene weather Hinoni, v. to become serene Hip, n. a sudden tap Hipiad, n. a tapping, a tipping Hipio, v. to tap, to tip Hir, a. long; tedious; dilatory Hiraeth, n. longing; regret Hiraethiad, n. a longing Hiraethlon, a. full of regret Hiraethog, a. longing Hiraethol, a. longing; regretting Hiraethu, v. to long; to regret Hiraethus, a. longing; regretting Hirâu, v. to lengthen Hirbell, a. very far, distant Hirbwyll, n. deliberate caution Hirchwedl, n. a long story Hirder, n. length; longitude Hirdrig, a. of long tarrying Hirddydd, n. a long day Hireinios, n. a long life Hirfod, n. a long abiding Hirfryd, a. of even mind Hirglust, a. long eared Hirglwyf, n. long-sickness Hirglyw, a. being long eared Hirgrwn, n. a cylinder: a cylinderical Hirgul, a. long and narrow Hirgwyn, n. a long complaint Hirgylch, n. an ellipse Hirhoedl, n. longevity Hirhoedlog, a. long-lived Hiriad, n. a lengthening Hirian, n. a tall lank person Hiriannu, v. to prolong Hiriant, n. length, delay Hirio, v. to lengthen Hirlidio, v. to bear anger long Hirnos, n. a long night Hirnych, n. long affliction Hiroddef, n. longsuffering Hiroed, n. long waiting Hirwlydd, n. the maidenhair Hirtrwm, n. a fribble Hityn, n. a ragamuffin Hithau, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Pesca's quaint announcement of the means by which he had procured me my present employment; the farewell evening I had passed with my mother and sister; even my mysterious adventure on the way home from Hampstead—had all become like events which might have occurred at some former epoch of my existence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Every pure and uplifting thought, every noble aspiration for the good and the true, every longing of the heart for a higher and better life, every lofty purpose and unselfish endeavor, reacts upon the body, makes it stronger, more harmonious, and more beautiful.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

[287] Amongst the Romans, on the contrary, the flight to the left was an excellent omen; thus Plautus in the Epidicus : "Tacete, habete animum bonum, liquido exeo foras auspicio, ave sinistra."
— from Zoological Mythology; or, The Legends of Animals, Volume 2 (of 2) by Angelo De Gubernatis

“When he rode with me, I say he always brought lunch except that one day on November 22 he didn’t bring his lunch that day.”
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

This was exasperating enough in all conscience, even for the hands forward, who, though there were certainly some rough characters among them, were by no means all bad—indeed a full half of the entire crew were really as smart willing fellows as one need wish to see; but it was even worse for the officers, for we had all been looking eagerly forward to a certain ball which was about to be given by the governor, to which every one of us had received an invitation.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

"But the Clown has a broken leg," explained Pete.
— from The Story of a Calico Clown by Laura Lee Hope

But I'm afraid we cannot get him A busby large enough to fit him; Because, when we set out, I know, He look'd all over Middle-Row, But could not find one, up or down, Half deep enough to fit his crown; Which is the cause he's forc'd to wear His old thrum night-cap all the year.
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775

Garcilasso de la Vega says that he was at school with Pedro de Candia’s son, at Cuzco, who inherited his father’s stature; for being only twelve years old he had a body large enough for one twice his age.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

At the time when critical reflection begins, we have already been long engaged in action and science, by the training of individual life, as by hereditary and racial experience, our faculties of perception and conception, our senses and our understanding, have contracted habits, which are by this time unconscious and instinctive; we are haunted by all kinds of ideas and principles, so familiar today that they even pass unobserved.
— from A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Edouard Le Roy

Some four hours later Commander Jephson, commandant of midshipmen, came through the hospital, accompanied by Lieutenant Edgecombe, who had been the sailing instructor of the afternoon.
— from Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis Two Plebe Midshipmen at the United States Naval Academy by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock