Who, but so known a dastard, dares to say?
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

My System Muller Rural Hygiene Brewer Lippincott CHIVALRY Adaptability Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds, Noble & Co. Adventure Among Red Indians Hyrst Lippincott Age of Chivalry Bullfinch An Iron Will Orison Swett Marden Crowell A Skilled Workman W. A. Bodell Revell Co. Aspiration and Achievement Frederick A. Atkins Revell Co. Aspirations and Influence H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Book of Famous Verse Agnes Repplier Boy's King Arthur Lanier Boy's Life of Captain John Smith Johnson Careers of Danger and Daring Cleveland Mofett {382} Character Shaping and Character Working H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Character the Grandest Thing Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Cheerfulness as a Life Power Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co. Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman Forbes Lindsay Lippincott Duty Ellen E. Kenyon Warner Hinds, Noble & Co. Duty Knowing and Duty Doing H. Clay Trumbull Sunday School Times Economy Orison Swett Marden Crowell Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

leukô toinyn kata tên paroimian eoike koraki mêt' autois tois koraxin anamichthênai dynamenô dia tên chroan mête tais peristerais dia to megethos, all' outi pou toutou g' heneka paropteos; isôs gar ti legei thaumaston, ho mêdeis tôn emprosthen egnô.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

Pertama-tama jika bermimpi mengaji Koran atau membacha Koran atau doʿa di rumah-nya, ʿalamat beruleh ’negrah Allah taʿala atau raja-raja, atau lepas deripada bahia dunia dan akhirat ada-nya.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Lamì kaáyung kindíhun ang duryan, Durian can be made into a very delicious candy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And after King Arthur did do ransack the dead bodies, and did do bury them that were slain of his retinue, every man according to the estate and degree that he was of.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

By the great tower—Caerleon upon Usk— Nay, truly we were hidden: this fair lord, The flower of all their vestal knighthood, knelt In amorous homage—knelt—what else?—O ay Knelt, and drew down from out his night-black hair And mumbled that white hand whose ringed caress Had wandered from her own King's golden head, And lost itself in darkness, till she cried— I thought the great tower would crash down on both— "Rise, my sweet King, and kiss me on the lips, Thou art my King."
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

S.A. and M.E.V. now called in the aid of a third member of the S.I.R.A., Macgregor Mathers, henceforth known as D.D.C.F. (Deo Duce Comite Ferro), who, having more time at his disposal, was able, by means of long and arduous labour, to elaborate the rituals in Masonic style.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Of companions now in various manners in different places defunct: Percy Apjohn (killed in action, Modder River), Philip Gilligan (phthisis, Jervis Street hospital), Matthew F. Kane (accidental drowning, Dublin Bay), Philip Moisel (pyemia, Heytesbury street), Michael Hart (phthisis, Mater Misericordiae hospital), Patrick Dignam (apoplexy, Sandymount).
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Indeed, indeed, had these young men and women found their little knowledge a deeply dangerous thing!
— from The Genius by Margaret Horton Potter

The main function of Technology has been to suppress anything that might threaten this state of economic rigor mortis that Duklass calls stability, and the function of Science has been to let muttonheads like Khane and Dandrik dominate the teaching of science.
— from Ministry of Disturbance by H. Beam Piper

Fortunately, the MS. from which these translations come is not of this kind; a detailed description of it may interest some of my readers.
— from The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke'Gemni The Oldest Books in the World by Ptahhotep

Their names were: Moll and Bet, and Doll and Kate, and Dorothy Draggletail; John and Dick, and Joe and Jack, and Humphrey with his flail.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

soft clay or mud cauld, cold, cauld-hertit, cold-hearted, 'cause, because, cawpable, capable, ceevil, civil, 'cep', except; but, chairge, charge, chappin', knocking; hammering; striking, cheenge, change, cheengeable, changeable, cheengt, changed, cheep, chirp; creak; hint; word, cheir, chair, cheirs, chairs, ch'ice, choice, chiel', child; young person; fellow, term of fondness or intimacy chimley-piece, chimney piece; mantle, chuise, choose, claes, clothes; dress, clan, group; class; coterie, clankin', clanking, clapper-clash, gossip, clash, blow; slap; mess, also gossip; tittle-tattle; tale-bearing clean, altogether; entirely, also comely; shapely; empty; clean clearin', clearing, clim', climb, cloods, clouds, cloot, clout; box (ear); beat; slap, also patch; mend close parin', give a short measure, cobblet, cobbled, cobblin', cobbling; shoemaking, comena, do not come, comfortin', comforting, comin', coming, comman', command, comman'ments, commandments, committit, committed, comparet, compared, compleen, complain, compleenin', complaining, comprehen', comprehend, conceivin', conceiving, concernin', concerning, concernt, concerned, condescen', condescend, conduc', conduct, conneckit, connected, considert, considered, conteened, contained, contert, contradicted; thwarted, contrairy, contrary, contrive, design, convic', convict, cooardly, cowardly, cooncil, council, coonsel, counsel, coont, count, coontenance, countenance, coontin', counting, coontit, counted, coonts, counts, coopered, tinkered up, coorse, coarse, also course coortin', courting, corbie, crow; raven, corbie-steps, corbel steps, projections on a gable resembling a step correc', correct, couldna, could not, crack, news; story; chat; gossip, cracks, news; stories; chats; gossip, craps, crops; produce of the field, cratur, creature, cratur', creature, craturs, creatures, crawin', crowing, creakin', creaking, creepit, crept; crawled, cried, called; summoned, croont, crowned, cry, call; summon, cryin', calling; summoning, cuist, cast, cunnin', cunning, cuttit, cut; harvested, dacent, decent, danglin', dangling, dauchter, daughter, daur, dare; challenge, daured, dared; challenged, daurna, dare not; do not dare, daursay, dare say, dawin', dawning, Dawvid, David, declaret, declared, declarin', declaring, 'deed, indeed, dee'd, died, dee'dna, did not die, deein', doing, also dying dees, dies, deevil, devil, deevils, devils, defen', defend, deid, dead, deif, deaf, deifer, deafer, deil, devil, deith, death, deiths, deaths, denner, dinner, denyin', denying, depen', depend, describit, described, dewotit, devoted, didna, did not, diffeeclety, difficulty, differ, difference; dissent, also differ difficlety, difficulty, dignities, dignitaries, dignity, dignitary, din, sound; din; report; fame, dinna, do not, direc', direct, direckit, directed, direckly, directly; immediately, direc'ly, directly; immediately, dis, does, disapp'intit, disappointed, discipleen, discipline, discontentit, discontented, discoontenance, discountenance; refuse to approve of, discoorse, discourse, disgeist, digest, disgracin', disgracing, disna, does not, disrespec', disrespect, dist, dust, disturbit, disturbed, div, do, dochter, daughter, doesna, does not, dogsure, quite certain, doin', doing, doo, dove, darling—term of endearment dooble, double; duplicate, also double dealing; devious doobt, suspect; know; doubt, have an unpleasant conviction doobtfu', doubtful, doobtin', suspecting; knowing, also doubting doobtless, doubtless, doobtna, do not suspect; do not know, also does not doubt doobts, suspects; knows, also doubts doon, down, door-sill, threshold, doos, doves, dottlet, crazy; in dotage, douce, gentle; sensible; sober; prudent, dour, hard; stern; stiff; sullen, dowy, sad; lonely; depressing; dismal, also ailing doze, dose, drap, drop; small quantity of, drappin', dropping, drappit, dropped, dreid, dread, dreidfu', dreadful; dreadfully, dreidit, dreaded, drogues, drugs, drunken, drunken, du, do, duer, doer, duin', doing, dull, deaf; hard of hearing, dune, done, du't, do it, dwall, dwell, dyke, wall of stone or turf, earth-dyke, wall of earth, Ebberdeen, Aberdeen, edder, adder, e'e, eye, eemage, image, een, eyes, e'en, even; just; simply, also eyes; evening efter, after; afterwards, efterwards, afterwards, elbuck, elbow, en', end, encoonter, encounter, endeevour, endeavour, eneuch, enough, enew, enough, Englan', England, enstance, instance, enterest, interest, er', ere; before, etin, giant, also ogre exackly, exactly, excep', except, expeckit, expected, experrience, experience, explainin', explaining, fa', fall; befall, fac', fact, fac's, facts; truths; realities, factor, manager of property, lets farms; collects rents; pays wages faddomless, fathomless, failt, failed, faimilies, families, faimily, family, faimily-name, family name; surname, fain, eager; anxious; fond, also fondly; gladly fa'in', falling, fairmer, farmer, Faith!, Indeed!; Truly!, exclamation faither, father, faithers, fathers, faithfu', faithful, fallow, fellow; chap, fancyin', fancying, fa's, falls, faund, found, fause, false, fau't, fault; blame, fauvour, favour, fauvoured, favoured, fawvour, favour, fearfu', fearful; easily frightened, fears, makes afraid; frightens; scares, fearsome, terrifying; fearful; awful, feart, afraid; frightened; scared, feathert, feathered, feelin', feeling, fell, very; potent; keen; harsh; sharp, intensifies; also turf feow, few, fess, fetch, fillsna, does not fill,
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

Frightened at the fate to which ambition had led the Duchesse de Valentinois (better known as Diane de Poitiers), she dreaded the queen-mother, and greatly preferred her simple happiness to grandeur.
— from Catherine De Medici by Honoré de Balzac

Beside the silent, gliding, ghost-like Mahometan women and the Hottentot Venus, you have Rebecca in gaudy kerchief and Doña Dolores in silken skirt and lace mantilla from neighbouring Spain.
— from Romantic Spain: A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

It is very fortunate, too, that I have been supplied with all the writing materials I require, for during my long hours of idleness I have been able to jot down in my notebook the slightest incidents that have occurred since I was abducted from Healthful House, and to keep a diary day by day.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne