Do not interrupt him; he cannot go back, and maybe could not proceed at all if once he lost the thread of his thought.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But Martin could not puzzle out what strange whim animated them to this general acceptance of the things they had persistently rejected for two years.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

The value of all morbid conditions consists in the fact that they magnify certain normal phenomena which are difficult to discern in normal conditions....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

To church in the morning and home to dinner, where come my brother Tom and Mr. Fisher, my cozen, Nan Pepys’s second husband, who, I perceive, is a very good-humoured man, an old cavalier.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

a. hovering Cyniweiriwr, n. hoverer Cynnod, n. prime mark Cynnodiad, n. prime mark Cynorthwy, n. succour, aid Cynorthwyad, n. assisting Cynorthwyo, v. to support; to maintain; to succour Cynnorthwywr, n. succourer Cynnrych, n. an example Cynnrychiad, n. exhibition Cynnrychiol, a. presential Cynnrychioldeb, n. presentness Cynnrychioli, v. to represent Cynnrychiolwr, representative Cynnud, n. fire wood, fuel Cynnulliad, n. a collection Cynnull, v. to collect Cynnulleidfa, n. assembly Cynnuta, v. to gather fuel Cynnutai, n. gatherer of fuel Cynnwynol, a. natural Cynnwys, n. admission, leave: a. compact, close: v. to contain: to harbour Cynnwysder, n. compactness Cynnwysedig, a. comprehended Cynnwysfawr, a. comprehensive Cynnwysiad, n. making compact, inclusion; epitome Cynnydd, n. increase, growth Cynnyddiad, n. an increasing Cynnyddol, a. increasing Cynnyddu, v. to increase Cynnyg, n. proffer, offer; v. to offer; to tender Cynnygiad, n. a proposition Cynnygiol, a. tendering Cynnygwr, Cynnygydd, n. a proposer Cynnyrch, n. produce Cynnyrchiad, n. production Cynnyrchiol, a. productive Cynnyrchioldeb, n. productiveness Cynnyrchioli, v. to make productive; to become productive Cynnyrchu, v. to increase Cynnysgaeth, n. portion, fortune Cynnysgaethiad, n. endowment, a settling, a fortune Cynnysgaethu, v. to endow Cynoes, n. first age, antiquity Cynoesol, a. primevous Cynosod, v. to prepose Cynron, n. maggots, worms Cynronllyd, a. maggotty Cynronyn, n. a maggot Cynryw, n. essence; purity Cynrywiad, n. origination Cynsail, n. a rudiment; a proposition; a sublinth Cynsefydlu, v. to predetermine Cynseilo, v. to premise Cynsylwi, v. to foresee Cynsymudiad, n. first motion Cynsyniad, n. pre-surmise Cynt, a. first, earliest, prime: ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Catocas. See Menippus. Catopterius, near Parnassus, ii.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

His collected and calm manner could not prevent her blood from running cold, as he thus tried to anatomise his old condition.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

It must be originally intuition, for from a mere conception, no propositions can be deduced which go out beyond the conception, and yet this happens in geometry.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The virtues of Majorian could not protect him from the impetuous sedition, which broke out in the camp near Tortona, at the foot of the Alps.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

All that is wanting to convince us that miracles constitute no part of the real history of Christ, is a cotemporary instead of a posthumous biography—a history written in the age which knew him, and by an unprejudiced writer who witnessed all his movements.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

By the application of this method, Plato had not only exposed the insufficiency and self-contradiction of all results obtained by a mere à posteriori generalization of the simple facts of experience, but he demonstrated, as a consequence, that we are in possession of some elements of knowledge which have not been derived from sensation; that there are, in all minds, certain notions, principles, or ideas, which have been furnished by a higher faculty than sense; and that these notions, principles, or ideas, transcend the limits of experience, and reveal the knowledge of real being --τὸ ὄντως ὄν-- Being in se .
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

I am convinced that Madame could not possibly have more command over herself than you have over yourself."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

It had taken a long time to convince her that even money could not prevail against them; and, in the intervals of expressing her admiration for the Catholic creed, she now had violent reactions of militant Protestantism, during which she talked of the tyranny of Rome and recalled school stories of immoral Popes and persecuting Jesuits.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

On a fine autumnal day Red Hoss made a beginning at the task of amassing the remaining half of the prenuptial sinking fund by accepting an assignment to deliver a milch cow, newly purchased by Mr. Dick Bell, to Mr. Bell's dairy farm three miles from town on the Blandsville Road.
— from Sundry Accounts by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

Thine the loudest voice of praise, Harbinger of fruitful days; Darling of the tuneful nine, Phœbus is thy sire divine; Phœbus to thy note has given Music from the spheres of heaven; Happy most as first of earth, All thy hours are peace and mirth; Cares nor pains to thee belong, Thou alone art ever young.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan

Presently, however, having occupied some favourable ground, he descended upon one body of them, and routed it, and took some prisoners whom their own fears delivered to him; and then he allowed the rest, who now devoted all their energies to flying with what speed they could, to escape unattacked, as his men could not pursue them by reason of the weight of their armour.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

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— from Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico by John M. Corbett

Seeing that the journey had to be undertaken that same night, Captain Marion could not possibly start on the spot.
— from The Casque's Lark; or, Victoria, the Mother of the Camps by Eugène Sue

He was duly examined by the resident surgeon, who bound up the wounded head, but gave it as his opinion that the man could not possibly live for more than twelve hours.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle