The Valet expected purple mantles, gilt sceptres, bodyguards and flourishes of trumpets: the Sceptic of the Eighteenth century looks for regulated respectable Formulas, "Principles," or what else he may call them; a style of speech and conduct which has got to seem "respectable," which can plead for itself in a handsome articulate manner, and gain the suffrages of an enlightened sceptical Eighteenth century!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

“Very well----” “Until the moment when the Comte de la Fere,” resumed Raoul, “said, ‘Come, Bragelonne, draw your sword;’ then only I rushed upon the reptile and cut it in two, just at the moment when it was rising on its tail and hissing, ere it sprang upon me.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

she woman horse shield (noun) whole it aid (noun) legionary weak arms master (of school) friend neighboring sick lieutenant field report, rumor abode boy his own alone prize (noun) master (owner)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

[ Ger. löffel; L. labellum] lǣfend (WW 168 17 ) = lǣwend lǣfer f. rush, reed, iris, gladiolus , Lcd, WW ; Æ: metal plate , Æ.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they [Pg 376] act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phænomena of Nature?
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

— N. libertine; voluptuary &c. 954a; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell[obs3], fast man; intrigant[obs3], gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard[obs3], adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard[obs3]; chartered libertine.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

field , kamp-o. fight , batal-i, milit-i. fill , plenig-i. find , trov-i. fine , bel-a, delikat-a; ( of money ), monpun-o. finger , fingr-o; index — , montra fingro; little — , malgranda fingro; middle — , longa fingro; ring — , ringa fingro.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

she woman horse shield (noun) whole it aid (noun) legionary weak arms master (of school) friend neighboring sick lieutenant field report, rumor abode boy his own alone prize (noun) master (owner) carefulness plenty troops plan (noun) people beautiful no (adj.)
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Tell kaj la filo reciproke rigardis sin, dum la patro diris ke li ne tuŝos haron de lia kapo.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

The Elector’s love for rare relics was indeed notorious, and, as a matter of fact, Luther himself was of service to the Elector in this very matter at the time when Staupitz was negotiating for him at St. Ursula’s
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

[ Exeunt, R. ] [ Enter BASIL reading a letter, WILLIAM following, L. FLORENCE returns, R., and steals behind them, and listens to their conversation.
— from Cromwell A Drama, in Five Acts by Alfred Bate Richards

And then every lubra being radiant with soap, new dresses, and ribbons, the missus, determined not be to outdone in the matter of Christmas finery, burrowed into trunks and boxes, and appeared in cream washing silk, lace fichu, ribbons, rings, and frivolities—finery, by the way, packed down south for that “commodious station home.”
— from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

Hilda Muirhead was supremely happy in her love for Raife Remington, and he in turn, was satisfied in their mutual devotion.
— from The Broken Thread by William Le Queux

When us saw youse light flashing round right in on the cliffs, us knowed it was no place for Christian men that time o' night.
— from Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North by Fullerton Leonard Waldo

Big Fishing river which was only ankle deep the night before was now forty feet in depth, and men from the mob said that Little Fishing river rose thirty feet in thirty minutes.
— from The Latter-Day Prophet: History of Joseph Smith Written for Young People by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

If I might there again refer to the letters from Russia received from Lee Harvey Oswald and placed in evidence before this Commission, when he notified us in 1959 that he was no longer going to write or contact us, and did not want us to contact him in any way, it was until April of 1961 before I heard from him again, which was, of course, a period of time after one year.
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

A PROPOSAL I was dropped in Kennisburg to attend to the legal formalities respecting Radnor's release, while Terry appropriated the horses and drove to Mathers Hall.
— from The Four-Pools Mystery by Jean Webster