First of all he abolished the use of gold and silver money, and made iron money alone legal; and this he made of great size and weight, and small value, so that the equivalent for ten minae required a great room for its stowage, and a yoke of oxen to draw it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

For this opposite is merely a logical and not a real opposite to the other.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

lywyddes, n. a female president Llywyddiad, n. a presiding Llywyddiaeth, n. presidency Llywyddol, a presidential Llywyddu, v. to preside Llywyn, n. the extreme of light; the west Llywynol, a. occidental, west Llywynydd, n. occident, west Ma, n. place, spot, space; state Mab, n. a male: a boy; a son Mabaidd, a. boyish, childlike Maban, n. a babe, a baby Mabanaidd, a. babyish, childish Mabandod, n. childhood Mabaneiddio, to become a baby Mabanoed, n. childhood Mabanu, v. to make as a baby Mabddall, a. blind from birth Mabddysg, n. infantile tuition Mabgar, a. fond of children Mabgath, n. a kitten Mabgoll, n. the poppy Mabiaeth, n. childhood; filiality Mabiaethu, v. to treat as a child Mabiaith, n. childish prattling Mabin, a. juvenile, youthful Mabineiddio, v. to make as a child Mabinog, a. juvenile, infantine Mablan, n. a burying place Mabmaeth, n. a foster-son Maboed, Mabolaeth; n. childhood, infancy Mabol, a. like a child; filial Maboli, v. to become as a child Mabon, n. a youth; a hero Mabsant, n. a patron saint Mabsanta, v. to canonise Mabwraig, n. a virago, a scold Mabwys, n. adoption of a son Mabwysiad, n. adoption Mabwysiadol, a. relating to the adoption of a child, adoptive Mabwysio, v. to adopt a son Macai, n. a maggot, a grub Maceiad, n. a maggot, a grub Macon, n. berries Macrell, n. a mackerel Macswr, n. brewer Macwy, n. a youth Mach, n. a security, a surety, a bail Machdaith, n. a dam, embankment Machiad, n. a making secure Machlud, n. a setting, a going down Machludiad, n. occultation Machludo, v. to be obscured Mad, n. what proceeds; a reptile; a good, a benefit Mad, a. good, beneficial Madalch, n. agaric, toadstool Madalchu, v. to produce agaric Madarch, n. agaric, toadstool Madarchen, n. agaric Madarchu, v. to produce agaric Mad-ddall, n. a blind-worm Madedd, n. benefit, goodness Maden, n. a she fox, a vixen Madfall, n. a newt, an eft Madfelen, n. a knapweed Madgall, n. a lizard Madiad, n. a benefiting Madiaeth, a. beneficient, bounteous Madog, a. tending forward Madol, a. goodly Madraidd, a. tending to fester Madreddiad, n. a putrefying Madreddol, a. putrefactive Madriad, n. a producing pus Madrodd, n. putrid bodies Madron, n. collection of humours Madrondod, n. dizziness Madronu, v. to make dizzy Madru, v. to putrefy, to fester Madrudd, n. the marrow Madruddiad, n. forming of marrow Madruddo, v. to form marrow Madruddog, a. having marrow Madruddyn, n. a vein marrow Madrwy, n. a newt, an eft Madryn, n. epithet for a fox Madu, v. to render productive Madw, a. tending to benefit Madws, n. fulness of time Madyn, n. epithet for a fox Madywydd, n. the sweetgale Madd, n. what tends to divest Maddau, n. dismissal; pardon, v. to let go; to pardon Maddeuad, n. a pardoning Maddeuant, n. pardoning Maddeuedig, a. dismissed; forgiven Maddeugar, a. disposed to remit Maddeuol, a. remitting, forgiving Maddeuwr, n. forgiver, pardoner Mae, v. is, are Maedd, n. a buffet Maeddgen, n. a buffet Maeddiad, n. a buffetting Maeddol, a. buffetting, banging Maeddu, v. to buffet, to bang Mael, n. gain, profit, advantage, what is worked; iron Maela, v. to seek for profit Maelan, n. a shop Maelawr, Maelfa, n. a mart, a market Maeldref, n. a market town Maeldoll, n. the tariff Maelera, v. to traffic, to trade Maeleriad, n. a trafficking Maeleriaeth, n. traffic, trade Maelged, n. a tribute; a tax, a toll Maelgi, n. the angel fish Maeliad, n. a profiting, a gaining Maeliant, n. advantage, gain Maelier, n. a trafficker Maelieres, n. a chap-woman Maelierwr, n. a merchant Maelio, v. to profit, to gain Maelota, v. to gain by traffic Maelotai, n. a retailer Maelwr, n. a retailer, a shop-keeper Maen, n. a block of stone.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

She dropped at my voice, and, I had time to curse myself while I made a light and tried to raise her from the floor.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

I wonder if Marie Antoinette looked all the grander when her gown was darned at the elbows.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I am also greatly indebted to the Rev. J. Estlin Carpenter, Principal of Manchester College, for having aided me with the parts of this book touching Christian theology; to Mr. R. I. Best, M.R.I.A., Assistant Librarian, National Library, Dublin, for having aided me with the parts devoted to Irish mythology and literature; and to Mr. William McDougall, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy in the University of Oxford, for a similar service with respect to Section IV, entitled ‘Science and Fairies’.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

This cheese is made at Lodi and not at Parma, and I did not fail to make an entry to that effect under the article “Parmesan” in my “Dictionary of Cheeses,” a work which I was obliged to abandon as beyond my powers, as Rousseau was obliged to abandon his “Dictionary of Botany.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I don't often jam in my advice, Loudon; and when I do, it means I'm thoroughly posted.”
— from The Wrecker by Robert Louis Stevenson

Ed. 70 A modern divine gives us the following curious description of the Church of England.—"The governors of this society form a kind of aristocracy respecting the community at large, but each particular governor in his proper district is a sort of monarch, exercising his function both towards the inferior ministers and laity, according to the will of the supreme head of the church."— The English Liturgy a Form of Sound Words; a Sermon delivered in the Parish Churches of St. Benet, Gracechurch Street, &c. by George Gaskin, D.D. How any man, with the New Testament before him, could possibly call such an aristocratical and monarchical church, one "formed according to the will of the Supreme Head," when he well knew that it was diametrically opposite to the letter and spirit of the most solemn, particular, and repeated directions of the Great Head of the Church on this subject:—" Call no man your master on earth; one is your master, even Christ, and all ye are brethren, &c. "—I shall not stay to inquire; but it may amuse the reader just to observe how this clerical pluralist exercises " his function towards the laity ," and more especially as it relates to tythes :—that species of property which was first voluntarily given by the people for various benevolent purposes, but of which they were afterwards robbed by the clergy, who appropriated them to their own sole use.
— from Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21 by John Woods

"Well, then, in ten days; but I give you fair notice, I shall install myself at Longueval, and shall not move.
— from L'Abbe Constantin — Volume 3 by Ludovic Halévy

Some few ottomans and golden candelabra, of Eastern figure, were in various stations about—and there was the couch, too—bridal couch—of an Indian model, and low, and sculptured of solid ebony, with a pall-like canopy above.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She is the sun as it were, a sun all beauty, harmony and strength; for justice is only to be found in the sun which shines in the heavens for one and all, and bestows on poor and rich alike its magnificence and light and warmth, which are the source of all life.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

"I must act like a gentlemen—what?"
— from The Side Of The Angels: A Novel by Basil King

For miles at a time this road has been blasted out of precipices from 1,000 feet to 3,000 feet in depth, and is merely a ledge above a raging torrent, the worst parts, chiefly those round rocky projections, being 'scaffolded,' i.e. poles are lodged horizontally among the crevices of the cliff, and the roadway of slabs, planks, and brushwood, or branches and sods, is laid loosely upon them.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird