For Warwick is a subtle orator, And Lewis a prince soon won with moving words.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Lufsumliche , adv. pleasantly, S.—AS. lufsumlice .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

It is with the inhabitants of this angle, as ‘tis said of those of the Val d’Angrougne; they lived a peculiar sort of life, their fashions, clothes, and manners distinct from other people; ruled and governed by certain particular laws and usages, received from father to son, to which they submitted, without other constraint than the reverence to custom.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

" I am growing old, taciturn, crotchety, strict; I seldom laugh, and people say I am growing like Radish, and, like him, I bore the men with my aimless moralising.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They filled a vessel, which had been used for transporting horses, with dry twigs and other combustible wood, fixed two masts on the prow, and fenced it round in the form of a circle as large as possible, so that the enclosure might contain as much chaff and as many torches as possible.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

A great, black, smothering isolation like a pall settled down over her, and seemed to pin itself with a stab through her heart.
— from The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

E come la mia faccia si distese, posarsi quelle prime creature da loro aspersion l'occhio comprese; e le mie luci, ancor poco sicure, vider Beatrice volta in su la fiera ch'e` sola una persona in due nature.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Cast iron, when subject to a bending strain, acts like a stiff spring, but when subject to compression it dents like a plastic substance.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 by Various

It selects one feature of the movement towards capitalist agriculture for special emphasis, and suggests that the hedging and ditching of land always produced similar results.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

that grand and costly conflagration to the world's eyes, in which, "Glittering, like a palace set on fire, His glory, while it shone, but ruin'd him!"
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

Like a phantom she came, and passed away unremembered.
— from Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My sister has come back from America, but I'm thinking it won't be long till she goes away again, for it is lonesome and poor she finds the island now.—I am your friend.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge