Oh! don't be frightened by me and never come again.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

And now as she made surmises as to who people were, what were their relations to one another, and what they were like, Kitty endowed them with the most marvelous and noble characters, and found confirmation of her idea in her observations.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

wherefrom, whence Cwb, n. a concavity; a cote Cwbl, n. a whole, a total Cwblhâd, n. fulfilling Cwblhâu, v. to fulfill, to finish Cwbledd, n. entireness Cwblhawr, n. finisher Cwcwll, n. a hood, a cowl Cwch, n. a boat, a hive Cwd, n. an injection or throw: n. a bag or pouch Cweryl, n. strife, quarrel Cweryliad, n. a quarelling Cwerylu, v. to quarrel Cwestiwn, n. a question Cwfl, n. a hood, a cowl Cwg, n. a rise; a jet; a knob Cwgyn, n. a knot; a knuckle Cwhwfan, n. a waving; a. waving; panting Cwhwfanu, v. to wave: to pant Cwl, n. a flagging; a fault; a box for raising coals Cwla, a. faulting; languid Cwlas, n. an apartment Cwlbren, n. a bludgeon Cwliaw, v. to make faulty Cwlwm, n. a knot, a tie Cwlltr, n. a coulter Cwm, n. a hollow, a dingle Cwman, n. a kive; a rump Cwmarch, n. a deep dingle Cwmwd, n. a wapentake Cwmpas, n. a compass Cwmpasol, a. compassing Cwmpasu, v. to compass Cwmwl, n. a cloud Cwn, n. a top, a summit Cŵn, n. dogs Cwnawl, a. rising, elevating Cwningen, n. a rabbit Cwnu, v. to arise; to support Cwpan, n. a cup, a bowl Cwpanaid, n. a cup-full Cwpl, n. a coupling, a couple Cwr, n. a limit; a corner; a circle, a skin Crwcwd, n. a stooping; a squating Cwrn, n. a spire; a pile Cwrnaid, n. a curveting Cwrt, n. a mound; a court Cwrw, n. ale, strong beer Cwrwgl, n. a coracle; a boat Cwsg, n. sleep Cwsgbar, a. causing sleep Cwt, n. a roundness; a cot; a stye; a rump, a skirt Cwta, a. short; abrupt Cwtâu, v. to shorten, to curtail Cwtiad, n. a plover; a coot Cwtiar, n. a coot, a water rail Cwtog, a. bob-tailed, squabby; n. a squab, a scut Cwtoges, n. a short squab Cwtogi, v. to shorten, to curtail Cwtogiad, n. a curtailing Cwtws, n. a lot; a scut Cwtyn, n. a bob-tail; a plover Cwtysyn, n. a lot, a ticket Cwthr, n. the rectum Cwyd, n. a stir, an agitation Cwymp, n. a fall, a tumble Cwympiad, n. a falling Cwympo, v. to fall; to cast down Cwympol, a. falling; declining Cympwr, n. one that falls Cwyn, n. plant, complaint Cwynfan, n. lamentation; v. to complain Cwynfanus, a. complaining Cwyniad, n. a complaining Cwyno, v. to complain Cwynofain, v. to bewail Cwynofaint, n. a wailing Cwynol, a. complaining Cwynos, n. a supper Cwynosa, v. to eat supper Cwynwr, n. a complainer Cwŷr, n. wax, gum Cwyreli, n. cerat; salve Cwyren, n. a cake of wax Cwyriad, n. a waxing Cwyro, v. to cover with wax Cwyros, a. of waxy quality Cwyrol, n. a cornel tree Cwys, n. a furrow Cwysed, n. a gore, a gusset Cwysiad, n. a furrowing Cwysig, n. a small furrow Cwyso, v. to furrow Cwysol, a. furrowing Cy, a. prefix used to denote a mutual act or effect Cybol, a. holding, grasping Cyboli, v. to blend, to mix Cyboliad, n. a blending Cybolwr, n. a mingler Cybydd, n. a miser, a niggard Cybyddol, a. coveting, greedy Cybydd-dod, n. avarice Cybyddes, n. a female miser Cybyddiad, n. a coveting Cybyddiaeth, n. covetousness Cybyddu, v. to act miserly Cycyllog, a. hooded, cowled Cycyllu, v. to wear a hood Cychaid, n. a boat-full, a hive-full Cychawl, a. boat-like; hive-like Cychedd, n. a concavity Cychiad, n. a covering; a hiving Cychu, v. to cover; to hive Cydfradu, v. to conspire Cydfradwr, n. a conspirator Cydfradwriaeth, n. a conspiracy Cydfwriad, n. combination Cydfwyta, v. to eat together Cychwyfan, v. to hover; to rock Cychwyn, n. stir, a move Cychwyniad, n. a commencement; a setting off Cyd, n. a junction; a coupling, used as a prefix to denote a mutual act Cyd, a. joint, united, common: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

It is now a matter of indifference to us that the humanists of those days combated the old ecclesiastical representation of man as naturally corrupt and lost, with this new-created picture of the paradisiac artist: so that opera may be understood as the oppositional dogma of the good man, whereby however a solace was at the same time found for the pessimism to which precisely the seriously-disposed men of that time were most strongly incited, owing to the frightful uncertainty of all conditions of life.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And Consequently they that have already Instituted a Common-wealth, being thereby bound by Covenant, to own the Actions, and Judgements of one, cannot lawfully make a new Covenant, amongst themselves, to be obedient to any other, in any thing whatsoever, without his permission.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Only we have to remember that by men at this stage of thought miracles are not considered as breaches of natural law.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Akim Petrovitch tried to chuckle, following the example of his Excellency, but again he could not get it out, and again he made absolutely no consolatory answer.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I met there several officers, the chaplain of the fortress, a certain Paoli Vida, one of the singers of St. Mark’s Church, and his wife, a pretty woman, sister-in-law of the major, whom the husband chose to confine in the fort because he was very jealous (jealous men are not comfortable at Venice), together with several other ladies, not very young, but whom I thought very agreeable, owing to their kind welcome.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If in the days of the Son of man and his inspired apostles it was necessary that a man should be ‘born again,’ ‘born of the Spirit,’ ‘made a new creature,’ and be ‘cleansed from all sin,’ it is necessary now.
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

Each tub is divided for two-thirds of its length by an upright partition, or "mid-feather," as it is called, which makes a narrow course around the vat.
— from A Book of Exposition by Homer Heath Nugent

Their morals are never correct, and the little they have set loosely about them.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

Life and thought, the dramatic and the metaphysical, are not considered apart, but woven into one seamless tissue; and in regard to both he has one point of view and one manner of treatment.
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

Although palynological studies and some faunal studies of subtropical and temperate animals suggest a drastic climatic fluctuation that might have eliminated tropical environments in southern México and northern Central America, there is much biological evidence indicating the existence of tropical environments in this region even during the glacial maximum.
— from A Distributional Study of the Amphibians of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, México by William Edward Duellman

And so on we went: marching mornings and nights; camping all through the hot day; and it was not long before we found that, in Miss Ross, we men had got something else beside the children to worship.
— from Midnight Webs by George Manville Fenn

Beside him stood Lady Margaret and Norah Castellan, and with them were the two men who had done so much to change defeat into victory; the captain and lieutenant of the ever-famous Ithuriel .
— from The World Peril of 1910 by George Chetwynd Griffith

The whole garden belonging to the house was built over, and divided into large rooms, which were hung with draperies of rose-coloured and white muslin, ornamented with enormous mirrors and numerous chandeliers, and perfumed with the flowers of every zone.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

In Vienna, moreover, Professor Freud, with his bold and original views on the sexual causation of many abnormal mental and nervous conditions, and his psycho-analytic method of investigating and treating them, although his doctrines are by no means universally accepted, is yet exerting a revolutionary influence all over the world.
— from The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis