“It persecutes rogues,” said the commissary.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

You will find, whenever the subject becomes freed from its present restraints, that it did not take her wholly by surprize.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

This does not have the sole object of making profane subjects communicate with sacred beings, but it also keeps these latter alive and is perpetually remaking and regenerating them.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

before, against; from Rhagachub, v. to get foremost Rhagadail, n. an out-building Rhagadrodd, n. a preface Rhagaddasu, v. to fit before hand Rhagaddewid, n. a previous promise Rhagaddfed, a. precocious Rhagafael, n. previous hold Rhagagori, v. to open before Rhagagweddu, v. to perform Rhagangen, n. prior necessity Rhagair, n. a leading word Rhagalw, v. to call beforehand Rhagamcan, n. a prenotion Rhagammheu, v. to doubt before hand Rhagammod, n. previous agreement Rhagamnaid, n. previous signal Rhagamser, n. previous time Rhaganfon, v. to send before Rhagansawdd, n. prior quality Rhagaraeth, n. prolegamena Rhagarawd, n. exordium Rhagarchwaeth, n. foretaste Rhagarfaeth, n. predestination Rhagarfaethu, v. to predestinate, to predispose Rhagarfog, a. forearmed Rhagarganfod, v. to foresee Rhagargoel, n. a foretoken Rhagarian, n. earnest money Rhagarlwy, n. prepared food Rhagarnawdd, n. a plough tail Rhagarswyd, n. previous dread Rhagarwain, v. to lead before Rhagarwedd, n. predisposition Rhagarwydd, n. a prognostic Rhagattal, n. a with holding Rhagateb, n. a prior answer Rhagawd, n. a going before; a going against; opposition v. to go before; to stop Rhagawdl, n. a leading rhyme Rhagawl, a. opposite, opposing Rhagbarodi, Rhagbarotöi, v. to prepare before Rhagbenaeth, n. vicegerent Rhagbennodi, v. to predetermine Rhagborth, n. outer gat Rhagbrofi, v. to foretaste Rhagbryder, n. precaution Rhagbrynu, v. to forestal Rhagbwyso, v. to weigh before Rhagchwaeth, n. a foretaste Rhagchware, n. a prelude Rhagchwedlu, v. to prologue Rhagchwegr, n. grandmother-in-law Rhagchwegrwm, n. grandfather-in-law Rhagchwilio, v. to search before Rhagdal, n. frontlet, frontstall: n. payment, beforehand Rhagdebygu, v. to presuppose Rhagdeimlo, v. to feel before hand Rhagder, n. advanced post Rhagderfynu, v. to predetermine Rhagdestun, preliminary theme Rhagdraethawd, n. prolegomena Rhagdrefnu, v. to preordain Rhagdy, n. an outhouse Rhagdyb, n. a preconceit Rhagdyn, n. fore-draught Rhagdyst, n. a prior witness Rhagddangos, v. to premonstrate Rhagddant, n. a fore-tooth Rhagddarbodi, v. to provide before Rhagddarlun, n. prefiguration Rhagddarmerthu, v. to prepare before Rhagddarn, n. a fore-piece Rhagddarparu, to furnish before Rhagddawn, n. a previous gift Rhagddeall, v. to understand before Rhagddelw, n. a prototype Rhagdderbyn, v. to receive before Rhagddewis, n. previous choice Rhagddiogelu, v. to secure beforehand Rhagddirnad, n. a pre-surmise Rhagddod, n. a prefix Rhagddodi, v. to prepose, to prefix Rhagddor, n. fore-door, wicket Rhagddrws, n. an outer door Rhagddryll, n. a fore piece Rhagddychymyg, n. presupposal Rhagddyddio, v. to antedate Rhagddyled, n. prior debt Rhagddywediad, n. gainsaying, contradiction Rhagedrych, v. to look before Rhagenw, n. a pronoun Rhagerchi, v. to pre-require Rhagetholi, v. to pre-elect Rhagfarn, n. a prejudice Rhagfed, a. foremost, anterior Rhagfeddiant, n. preoccupancy Rhagfeddyliad, n. precognition Rhagfeio, v. to blame before Rhagflaeniad, n. a preceding Rhagflas, n. a foretaste Rhagfod, n. prior existence Rhagfoddio, v. to please beforehand Rhagfoel, a. bald before Rhagfraint, n. a prerogative Rhagfur, n. a contramure Rhagfwriad, n. a forecasting Rhagfyfyrio, v. to premediate Rhagfyned, v. to go before Rhagfynegi, v. to prenunciate Rhagfyr, n. December, the last month of the year Rhagfyrâu, v. to foreshorten Rhaggaer, n. advance work Rhagganfod, v. to foresee Rhagglod, n. former fame Rhaggludo, v. to heap before or in front Rhagglywed, v. to hear before Rhaggymeriad, n. prolepsis Rhaghanfod, n. pre-existence Rhagholi, v. to examine before Rhaglafar, a. prclocutory Rhaglamu, v. to step before Rhaglaw, n. deputy; lieutenant Rhaglawn, n. first filling in Rhaglefain, v. to proclaim Rhaglewychu, v. to illumine Rhaglith, n. a prelection Rhagluniaeth, n. providence Rhagluniaethol, a. providential Rhaglunio, v. to perform; to provide Rhaglyd, n. forecast; providence Rhaglyw, n. a deputy governor Rhaglywiaeth, n. prefecture Rhagnodi, v. to mark before Rhagnoethi, v. to make bare before Rhagodfa, n. an ambuscade Rhagodi, v. to get before Rhagofal, n. a precaution Rhagofyn, v. to bespeak Rhagofwg, n. prospect; foresight Rhagor, n. superiority; difference; more Rhagorddwyn, a. excellent Rhagorfraint, n. prerogative Rhagori, v. to surpass Rhagoriad, n. a surpassing Rhagoriaeth, n. excellency; difference Rhagorol, a. superior, excellent Rhagoroldeb, n. excellence Rhagosod, v. to set before Rhagraith, n. deliberation Rhagred, n. a prior course Rhagrediad, n. forerunning Rhagreithio, n. to deliberate Rhagrith, n. hypocrisy Rhagrithio, v. to dissimulate Rhagrithiwr, n. a dissimulator, a hypocrite Rhagrithro, v. to rush forward Rhagrwymo, v. to bind before Rhagrwystro, v. to preclude Rhagrybuddiad, n. forewarning Rhagsail, n. prior foundation Rhagsain, n. a leading sound Rhagsefydlu, v. to pre-establish Rhagsylwi, v. to remark before hand Rhagsyllu, v. to look forward Rhagsynied, v. to premediate Rhagu, to get before; to oppose Rhagwahan, n. leading division; term in prosody Rhagwahannod, n. semicolon Rhagwas, n. deputy servant Rhagwedd, n. a presence Rhagweini, v. to serve before Rhagweled, v. to forsee Rhagwerthu, v. to sell previously Rhagwirio, to certify before Rhagwisg, n. a fore-garment Rhagwybod, v. to foreknow Rhagwyneb, a. forthcoming: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

SYN: Income, produce, return, proceeds, fruits, wealth, enrichment.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

573 The others also advanced as each found it practicable, reducing by force some of those who had fled for refuge into the 236 strongholds, and capturing others who surrendered to them on terms of capitulation.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Predicate nouns and adjectives agree in number with the word or words with which they are in predicate relation: Rozoj estas belaj , roses are beautiful .
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

Next, two pieces of light wood are nailed together, forming a small floating platform about a foot square, and on this the fowl is placed, raised on miniature trestles.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

XXXI Speech careless, incorrect, but soft, With inexact pronunciation Raises within my breast as oft As formerly much agitation.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Its consumption for burning is stated to be universal, until its price reaches that of sesamum oil, the only other kind used for lamps.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 384, August 8, 1829 by Various

I promptly returned.
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

Even as he spoke he and Ron seized bottles on their own account, and turned themselves into imaginary pipers, rivalling each other in turns and twists and long-drawn-out notes, till presently the infection spread, and every single member of the family was swelling the orchestra, Mr Macalister beating time with vigorous sawings of the arm and shakings of the head.
— from Big Game: A Story for Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

We mean, of course, Dwight's Journal of Music , which ended with an admirably manly, candid, and sagacious, but inevitably pathetic, valedictory from its editor—veteran editor, we should say, if the atmosphere of good music in which he has lived had not been an enchanted air in which youth is perpetually renewed….
— from Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and Concord by George William Curtis

Since this light subsists in elevated regions, because the purity of its nature forces it to remain in pure regions, it cannot be subject to any wastage (or, leakage).
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

While it had been kept in perfect repair, little or nothing had been done to modernize it, and alter its primitive form and ornaments, excepting the later addition of some modern chapels above the transept; it stood naked and almost rude, but unencumbered with the lumpish and tasteless plaster encasement of the old basilica in a modern Berninesque church, which had disfigured the Lateran cathedral under pretence of supporting it.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

If the girls find out that I played Rosalind in Mr. Southard's company I'll never hear the last of it."
— from Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

They rode about for some time, as if in search of Christ, until a full-length figure of the Saviour appeared, dressed in purple robes, carried on a platform by four men, and guarded on all sides by soldiers.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca