For, that same day, his Majesty having received their Deputation of welcome, as seemed, rather drily, the Deputation cannot but feel slighted, cannot but lament such slight: and thereupon our cheering swearing First Parliament sees itself, on the morrow, obliged to explode into fierce retaliatory sputter, of anti-royal Enactment as to how they, for their part, will receive Majesty; and how Majesty shall not be called Sire any more, except they please: and then, on the following day, to recall this Enactment of theirs, as too hasty, and a mere sputter though not unprovoked.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It found resistance suddenly slackened by civil war within the plutocracy itself—one gang of traders falling upon another gang, to the tune of vast hymn-singing and yells to God.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

'Tis vain for dame or man to pray; Death will not hear before his day; Since I, from Ráma's sight debarred, And tortured by my cruel guard, Still live in hopeless woe to grieve And loathe the life I may not leave, Here, like a poor deserted thing, My limbs upon the ground I fling, And, like a bark beneath the blast, Shall sink oppressed with woes at last.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[ earg ] iergðu f. remissness, sloth, cowardice , AO.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

If there were a delicate instrument for recording small movements in the mouth and throat, we might place such an instrument in a person's mouth and then tell him to recite a poem to himself, as far as possible only in imagination.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The day had died, and I felt rather "seedy" when I made an effort to get up.
— from In the Yellow Sea by Henry Frith

On the 14th of October, 1736, there came on before the commissioners of excise the trials of Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick, surgeon and apothecary in Turnmill-street, and Mr. John Thomas, chymist at Shoreditch, on informations for retailing spirituous liquors, contrary to the intent and meaning of the act; and they were both found guilty.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Item for Rownde selk about the bordure jd. ob. Item for red selke to sow hytt with all, di. quarter the vnce ijd ob. Item for past iiijd.
— from Ecclesiastical Vestments: Their development and history by Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister

The young man soon surpassed his tutor in knowledge and resource, and by the time that he was married and the father of our own friend, Frederic George Kitton, he had made a name among the leading diatomists of his time, and was reputed to be more successful in finding rare specimens than any other man in the country.
— from The Dickens Country by Frederic George Kitton

As long as I stayed there I felt reasonably safe, because Yowler would have to find me, and to do that he would have to cross an open place where I could see him.
— from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

In 1882 M. Vacquerie, the editor of ‘Le Rappel,’ a relative of Hugo’s, and a great friend of Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Watts-Dunton, together with other important members of the Hugo cenacle, determined to get up a representation of ‘Le Roi s’Amuse’ on the jubilee of its first representation, since when it had never been acted.
— from Theodore Watts-Dunton: Poet, Novelist, Critic by James Douglas

He might have to follow the example of the latter in forcibly resisting secession, but his legal position would be very different.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill

Still their retention is in some respects advisable, for any sweeping change in a recognized system of nomenclature must cause confusion, and the names alluded to serve a useful end in facilitating reference; so that, under the circumstances, it would perhaps be unwise to attempt reform, or to introduce an innovation which must occasion many difficulties.
— from Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings by William F. (William Frederick) Denning