; euwere , MD; eware , aquarius , Prompt.—AF.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The illustrious and holy orator occupied the pulpit of the Holy Ghost and preached a most eloquent and profound sermon, which edified and left marveling all the faithful who had waited so anxiously to see spring from his fecund lips the restoring fountain of eternal life.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

With the advent of this mythology experience and presumption divided their realms; experience was allowed to shape men's notions of vulgar reality, but presumption, which could not be silenced, was allowed to suggest a second sphere, thinly and momentarily veiled to mortal sense, in which the premonitions of will were abundantly realised.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

By 1350, however, the dialect of London and the vicinity had come, apparently, to be regarded as somewhat more elegant and polished than the others.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Having noticed these four facts as memorably distinguishing my dreams from those of health, I shall now cite a case illustrative of the first fact, and shall then cite any others that I remember, either in their chronological order, or any other that may give them more effect as pictures to the reader.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

I see a shaggy head, a bushy beard, moustaches, eyebrows, hair on my cheeks, hair up to my eyes, a perfect thicket with a solid nose sticking up out of it like a watch-tower.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Repeat this exercise rapidly, giving the lips as much exercise as possible.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

What had he done to distinguish him from thousands of other struggling men earning a precarious livelihood?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The persecution of Diocletian began particularly to rage in A. D. 304, when many christians were put to cruel tortures, and the most painful and ignominious deaths; the most eminent and particular of whom we shall enumerate.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

We shall see that they could mutually esteem and praise each other.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

Exactly similar is the statement of the composer, Hoffman: “When I compose, I sit down to the piano, shut my eyes, and play what I hear.”
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

Ricardo ejaculated for the third time, more and more enlightened and perplexed.
— from Victory: An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

Companionship is the inflorescence of social life,—its finest result, its most exquisite and [Pg 218] perfect ideal.
— from The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Upon this Madame exclaimed and protested that, except in as far as regarded her son, she had never given cause for displeasure; and went on alternating complaints and justifications.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

All the Saints, from the beginning of history to the end, resemble each other in this, that their excellence is supernatural, their deeds heroic, their {15} merits extraordinary and prevailing.
— from Selections from the Prose Writings of John Henry Cardinal Newman For the Use of Schools by John Henry Newman

When I was last in London you gave me a general invitation, which I value more than a Treasury warrant:—an invitation to ‘the feast of reason,’ and, what I like still more, ‘the flow of soul,’ which you dispense with liberal and elegant abundance, is, in my estimation, a privilege of enjoying certain felicity; and we know that riches and honour are desirable only as means to felicity, and that they often fail of the end.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

Francisco Morazán : Escuela Agrícola Panamericana, AMNH 54963-73; 14.5 km NW Comayaguela, KU 100499; El Zamorano, KU 103224; 29 km N Tegucigalpa, TNHC 32003, 32012.
— from The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America by Juan R. León