" Mr. Audley looked at his cousin with an expression of serio-comic perplexity.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The practical value, which a merely speculative science may have, lies without the bounds of this science, and can therefore be considered as a scholion merely, and like all scholia does not form part of the science itself.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

My wife often comes up to me and looks about my rooms uneasily, as though looking for what more she can give to the starving peasants “to justify her existence,” and I see that, thanks to her, there will soon be nothing of our property left
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

do we by a shorter time measure a longer, as by the space of a cubit, the space of a rood?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Suddenly a man mounted a ladder, and pointing to the rebels cried in a loud voice: “The Spirit of Tzŭ T’ung has sent me to inform you that the town will fall into the hands of the enemy on the twentieth day of the ninth moon, and not a single person will escape death.”
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The admiral caused him tell his story more at large and having heard everything from him as it had happened, was about to depart, when Gianni called him back and said to him, 'For God's sake, my lord, an it may be, get me one favour of him who maketh me to abide thus.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Mr. Schapiro is still a young man, and like all young people, has much to learn, but if health and strength are granted, he bids fair to become an able advocate of the Messiah among his own brethren after the flesh, the Jews.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: Now glowed the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Talgell, n. pantry, buttery Talgrib, n. front-board of a spinning wheel Talgrwn, a. precipitate; inflective Talgrych, a. rough fronted Talgryf, a. hard fronted, brazen Talgrynu, v. to inflect Taliad, n. a paying; a payment Talm, n. impression; space; while; range; small quantity Talmu, v. to be abrupt; to impress Talp, n. a mass, a lump, a piece Talpen, n. a knoll, a knob Talpentan, n. a fire-back Talpio, v. to form lumps Talpiog, a. in lumps, lumpy Talu, v. to pay; to requite Talwisg, n. a head-dress Talwrn, n. what projects Tall, n. a spreading out or over Tam, Tamaid, n. morsel; a bite Tamaid, n. a morsel, a bite Tameidiad, n. a biting a bit Tameidio, v. to take a bite Tameidyn, n. a small bite Tamigo, v. to nibble, to nip Tamp, n. what is pervasive Tamper, n. a taper, a torch Tampog, n. a fit of passion Tampru, v. to burn a torch Tân, n. expansion, spread; fire Tan, a. spreading, continuous: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Blanche moved a little apart as the car disappeared, and Berenice watched her curiously.
— from A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Without the slightest scruple, this odd gentleman takes it up and reads a bit, and looks toward the door; reads a little more, and looks again, and so on to the end.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Attending long in vain, I took the way, Which through a path, but scarcely printed, lay; In narrow mazes oft it seemed to meet, And looked as lightly pressed by fairy feet.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

"And will there be music, and lights, and flowers there, the same as here, papa?" "Oh! for that, it is much the same everywhere," replied M. Linders.
— from My Little Lady by E. Frances (Eleanor Frances) Poynter

"Suppose, dear," she said, "that when my appointed lover arrives, I send him away.
— from Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley G. (Stanley Grauman) Weinbaum

Whereupon he read me a lecture, and told me how it really stood with you financially.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Hallowed ground could not now suffice, for the great multitude of dead bodies, which were daily brought to every Church in the City, and every houre in the day; neither could the bodies have proper place of buriall, according to our ancient custome: wherefore, after that the churches and Church-yards were filled, they were constrained to make use of great deepe ditches, wherein they were buried by hundreds at once, ranking dead bodies along in graves, as Merchandizes are laide along in ships, covering each after other with a small quantity of earth, & so they filled at last up the whole ditch to the brim.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio

Moons Mountain moons are large and white, Mountain moons are round; —I have seen the moons at night
— from A Little Freckled Person: A Book of Child Verse by Mary Carolyn Davies

And I don’t care what happens to me, as long as he gets his road.”
— from Wunpost by Dane Coolidge