Well, I soon stopped swearing and looked closer at her, asked her questions, but not a word could I get out of her.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Holinshed (quoted by Nares): "with barded horses, all covered with iron," etc.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Ger bron, in presence of, before; Yn mron, almost Brona, v. to give the breast Bronaidd, a. swelling as a breast Bronallt, n. a smooth declivity Bronawg, a. full-breasted Brondor, n. breast-plate Bronddu, a. black-breasted Broneg, n. breast-plate Bronfraith, a. mottled breasted; n. a thrush Bron-gengl, n. a breast-leather Bron-glwm, n. a breast-knot Bron-gul, a. narrow-chested Bronisel, a low-chested Bronliain, n. breast-cloth Bronlydan, a. broad-chested Bronrain, a. high-breasted Bronrhuddyn, n. the redbreast Bront, a. filthy; surly Bronten, n. a dirty wench Bronuchel, a. high-chested Bronwen, a. white-breasted Bronwst, n. pain of the breast Bronwyn, a. white-breasted; n. the small celandine Broth, n. a stir, a tumult Bru, n. the womb, the belly Bruawl, belonging to the womb Brud, n. a chronicle; a surmise Brudai, n. a chronicler Brudiaeth, n. chronology Brudio, v. to record; to surmise Brudiol, a. chronological Brwchan, n. caudle, flummery Brwd, a. hot, acrid, warm Brwnt, a. foul, nasty, dirty; surly Brwyd, n. a brooch, a braid; a. full of holes Brwyden, n. the reeds of a loom Brwydo, v. to make interstices; to embroider Brwydrad, n. a battling Brwydrin, n. a combating Brwydro, v. to battle, or to fight in war Brwydrol, a. battling Brwydwaith, n. embroidery Brwydweithydd, an embroiderer Brwydydd, n. an embroiderer Brwydr, n. a battle, a conflict Brwyn, n. a pricking; a smarting rushes; a. pricking, smarting Brwynad, n. a pricking Brwyneg, n. a place where rushes grow Brwynen, n. a rush; a track Bywyniad, n. a smelt Brwyno, v. to prick; to throb Brwynog, a. having rushes Brwys, a. luxuriant, fertile Brwysg, a. unwieldy; drunk Brwysgedd, n. inebriety Brwysgo, v. to become drunk Brwysgol, a. unwieldy; drunk Brwyso, v. to grow luxuriantly Bry, a. high: ad. upwards, above Brycan, n. a rug Brych, n. a rough covering; the afterbirth of a cow; a. brindled freckled Brychau, n. motes, flue Brychell, n. a trout Brychen, n. a bubbling, a spring Brycheuad, n. a gathering of flue Brycheulyd, a. full of dirty spots Brycheuo, to pick; to maculate Brycheuog, a. full of dirt Brycheuyn, n. a mote, a hair Brychiad, n. a salmon trout Brychni, n. freckliness Brychog, a. brindled, freckled Brychu, v. to brindle, to freckle Brychwyn, a. of a brindled white Brychyn, n. a speckled one Brychynu, v. to speckle Bryd, n. impulse; mind, thought Brydai, n. a heating iron, a heater Brydain, a. of a heating quality Brydaint, n. inflamation Brydaniaeth, n. inflamation Brydian, v. to inflame; to throb Brydiannol, a. simmering Brydiannu, to simmer; to throb Brydiannus, a. heating Brydiant, n. a heating Brydio, v. to heat; to throb Brydiog, a. heated; throbbing Brydiol, a. of a heating quality Brydiolrwydd, n. inflamatoriness Brydlon, a. resolute, intent Brydlonedd, n. resoluteness Brydd, a. feeble, weak, sickly Brygawthan, v. to babble, or prate Brygawthwr, n. a babbler Brygu, to grow out, to overspread Bryn, n. a hill, a mount Brŷn, n. grudge, malice Brynar, n. ploughed land Bryncyn, n. a clod Bryncynog, a. full of clods Bryncynu, v. to break clods Brynial, v. to be heaping Bryniog, a. full of hills, hilly Brynti, n. filthiness, nastiness; a filthy animal Brys, n. quickness, haste; a hasty quick, speedy Brysg, n. a track, or mark Brysgar, a. quickening; hasty Brysgyll, n. a truncheon Brysiad, n. a hastening Brysio, v. to hasten Brysiol, a. hastening, hurrying Bryste, Caerodor, n. Bristol Brysyll, n. a truncheon Brythai, n. a rioter Brytheirio, v. to belch Brython, n. tumultuous ones; one of three primitive tribes of the Cymry Brythoneg, n. the Brython speech Brythonig, a. relating to the tribe of Brython Brythu, v. to quarrel, to brawl Brywes, n. bread steeped in broth or pot liquor Brywio, v. to invigorate Brywiog, a. vigorous, lively Brywusder, n. wantoness Bu, n. a being; a cow; v. was, it came to pass Buach, n. a churl, a clown Bual, n. a buffalo, a bison, a bugle Bualgen, n. buff-leather Bualgorn, n. a bugle horn Buan, n. that is quick; a hare; a. swift, nimble, fast Buanog, a. full of swiftness Buanol, a. accelerative Buander, n. swiftness, speed Buandroed, a. swift-footed Buanedd, n. fleetness, velocity Buarth, n. a cattle yard, a fold Buarthfa, n. a folding place Buarthiad, n. a folding Buarthog, a. folded, penned Buarthu, v. to shut in a fold Buch, n. life; cattle, kine Buchedd, n. course of life Bucheddiad, n. a leading, a life Bucheddol, a. living; moral Bucheddoldeb, n. morality Bucheddu, v. to lead a life Buches, n. a milking fold Budr, a. dirty, nasty, vile Budràd, n. defilement Budredd, n. filthiness, dirt Budreddi, n. nastiness, filth Budreddu, v. to defile Budriaith, n. obscene speech Budro, v. to dirty, to soil Budrog, a. abounding with dirt Budrogen, n. a filthy wench Budrol, a. dirtying, soiling Budd, n. profit, gain Buddai, n. a churn; a bittern Buddeilw, n. cowhouse posts Buddfawr, a. advantageous Buddiant, n. advantage, gain Buddio, v. to profit, to avail Buddiol, a. profitable Buddioldeb, a. profitableness Buddioli, v. to make profitable Buddugol, a. victorious, triumphant Buddugoliaeth, n. victory Buelin, a. of horn: n. a bugle Bugad, n. a confused noise Bugadu, v. to threaten, to vaunt Bugail, Bugeiliwr, Bugeilydd, n. a shepherd, a herdsman Bugeilio, v. to tend a flock Bugeiliad, n. a tending of flock Bugeileg, n. a bucolic Bugeilffon, n. a shepherd’s crook Bugeilgan, n. a pastoral song Bugeilgi, n. a shepherd’s dog Bugeiliaeth, n. pastoral care Bugeiliaidd, a. pastoral Bugloddi, to turn up the ground Bugunad, n. a belowing Buguned, v. to bellow, to roar Buguno, v. to bellow, to roar Bugunwr, n. one who roars Bul, n. a seed-vessel, hull Buladd, n. the herb cameleon Bulwg, n. cockle weed, corn-rose Bumustl, n. the ox-bane Bun, n. a woman: a maiden Buna, a. ten hundred thousand Bur, n. violence, rage Burgun, n. a carcase Burgunio, v. to mangle to death Burguniol, a. cadaverous Buria, n. a carcase Burth, n. a violent thrust Burthiad, n. a driving off Burwy, n. a cow fetter Bury, n. a carnivorous bird Burym, n. barm, yeast, froth Bus, n. the human lip Bustach, n. a steer, a bullock Bustachu, v. to buffet about Bustl, n. gall, bile, choler Bustlaidd, a. like gall Bustlo, v. to yield gall Buwch, n. a cow Büyn, n. a bullock Bw, n. a threat; terror; bugbear interj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The urine, which may have contained red blood-cells or have been markedly hemorrhagic, quickly becomes normal and, in our experience, gives no further evidence of renal damage.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

He was speechless; but in the step half taken, his flushed face, his quick breathing, Nenetzin read all he could have said, and more; and so he waited a sign from her,—a sign, though but a glance or a motion of the lip or hand.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

She was so silent, even her quiet breathing not reaching my ear, that I felt impelled to stretch out my hand beneath the coverlet and touch hers ever so softly.
— from The Return Of The Soul 1896 by Robert Hichens

"Is it not better," asked Einar, "that this matter be settled here quietly, between neighbors, rather than be brought before the judges at the Althing?" "Quietly settled is always best," answered Hiarandi.
— from The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow by Allen French

I thought I heard the door-bell ring just then, and shut it up in my hand quick, but nobody went to the door; and then I looked at the little mouse, and if it wasn't pure gold it was the best imitation ever I see, so I slipped it quietly in my pocket to look at it ag'in when I had time.
— from The Stories of the Three Burglars by Frank Richard Stockton

Here also was a chest, containing her quaint but not ungraceful apparel, and the other requisites for her simple toilet; at night a female slave, a captive taken from one of the southern tribes, slept in the outer compartment, and the ever watchful Wingenund stretched himself on a buffalo robe across the aperture, so that the slumbers of the fair Prairie–bird were securely guarded even during the absence of Paul Müller; and when he was with the tribe, his small tent was separated from hers only by a partition of skins, which in case of alarm might be cut open by a sharp knife in a moment.
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

The friar he quaffed, but no longer he laughed, He changed from red to pale: "Oh, helpless elf!
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

There was hasty questioning but no explanation.
— from Laramie Holds the Range by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

The teaching of our best schools, a task so important that it should be entrusted to none but those highly qualified by nature and instruction in the art, is almost entirely in the hands of athletes and grammarians of dead languages.
— from Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War by W. (Wilfred) Trotter

The Comte de Cardi investigated this matter in the Niger Delta: "I have questioned both native men and women," he states, "to try and get the natives' reason for this rite, but the almost universal answer to my queries was, 'it is our country's fashion.'"
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis