It has been stated that the word is a corruption of Hamburgh, from which town so many false bulletins and reports came during the war in the last century.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Once more, Frank, by a rapid motion of his arm, unaccompanied by any noise, checked him in his purpose.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Farmers find that they can raise more food by a rotation of plants belonging to the most different orders: nature follows what may be called a simultaneous rotation.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

For these sacred beings, he has not merely fear, but also respect.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

ydd, a. daily Bid, v. let it be, be it; n. a quickset hedge Bidan, n. twig; a fribble Bidio, v. to set a hedge Bidog, n. a hanger; a short sword Bidogan, n. a dagger Bidogi, v. to poniard, to stab Bidogyn, n. a poniard Bidwal, n. an encampment Biswail, n. a drain in a cow house; cow dung Bisweliad, n. a dunging Bisweilio, v. to drop dung Blaen, n. a point; a top Blaenafiaeth, n. primacy Blaenanedig, a. first born Blaendardd, n. a first building Blaendocio, v. to beard wool Blaendori, v. to cut the end Blaendrwch, n. apheresis Blaendrwyth, n. prime solvent Blaenddod, n. a prefix Blaenddodi, v. to prefix Blaenddodiad, n. a prefixing Blaeneudir, n. bordering land Blaenfain, a. sharp-pointed Blaenfed, a. antecedent Blaenffrwyth, n. first-fruit Blaengnwd, n. first crop Blaenhogi, v. to sharpen point Blaeniad, n. a pointing Blaenio, v. to form into a point Blaenlaeth, n. first milk Blaenllaw, n. first hand: yn mlaen llaw, before hand Blaenllym, a. sharp-pointed Blaenllymu, v. to sharpen a point Blaennewydd, n. new moon Blaenol, a. foremost, primary Blaenor, n. a leader Blaenori, v. to precede Blaenoriad, n. a preceding Blaenoriaeth, n. antecedence Blaenorol, a. antecedent, leading Blaenred, n. the foremost Blaenredol, a. precurrent Blaenredu, v. to forerun Blaenu, v. to point; to precede Blagur, n. a sprout, a bud Blaguriad, n. a sprouting Blaguro, v. to sprout, to bud Blagurol, a. sprouting, budding Blaguryn, n. a sprout, a bud Blaidd, n. the visage; a wolf Blan, n. splendour; light Blanc, n. a young horse Blanu, v. to cast a splendour Blas, n. taste, savour, relish Blasaidd, a. having some taste Blaseiddio, v. to give a taste Blasiad, n. a tasting Blasu, v. to taste; to relish Blasus, a. relishing, savoury Blasuso, v. to give a relish Blaw, n. effusion; a flow Blawd, n. meal, flour Bleiddiadwy, a. ravening Bleiddag, n. wolf bane Bleiddgi, n. a wolf dog Bleiddig, a. like a wolf Bleiniad, n. leader; ear of corn Blew, n. hairs, hair Blewio, v. to grow to hair Blewog, a. shaggy, hairy Blewogi, v. to grow hairy Blewogrwydd, n. hairiness Blewyn, n. hair Blewynog, n. alfine Bliant, n. fine linen, cambric Blif, n. catapulta Blifai, n. a projectile Blifio, v. to cast from an engine Blifyn, n. a ball, a bullet Blin, a. tired; troublesome Blinder, n. fatigue; trouble Blinderog, a. fatigued Blinderus, a. tiresome, tired Blinedig, a. troubled; disturbed; wearied Blinfyd, n. tribulation Bling, n. flaying, a strip Blingiad, n. a flaying Blingo, v. to excoriate, to flay Blingwr, n. flayer Blino, v. to trouble; to tire Blinwr, n. disturber Blisg, n. shells, husks Blisgiad, n. a shelling Blisgo, v. to shell, to husk Blisgyn, n. shell, husk Blith, n. milk: a. milch Blithog, a. giving milk Blodau, n. blossoms, flowers Bloden, n. floweret Blodeuad, n. flowering Blodeulyd, a. flowered,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Farmers find that they can raise most food by a rotation of plants belonging to the most different orders: nature follows what may be called a simultaneous rotation.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I gave up my small apartment, sold my few belongings, and resolved to start afresh.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

His scales are too hard to pierce; he is terribly strong, lashing trees down with his tail, and wearing a deep path through the wood and over the stones with his huge and perpetual bulk; but the hero, covered with hide-wrapped shield against the poison, gets down into the hollow path, and pierces the monster from below, afterward rifling its underground store and carrying off its treasure.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The task I set her for the next lesson was to change my four bars, and replace them by something of her own, and to find out another beginning, even if it were the same harmony, only changing the melody.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The fact that the enforcement of Prohibition entails a host of oppressions and injustices—that it puts a premium upon the lowest sort of spying, affords an easy livelihood to hordes of professional scoundrels, subjects thousands of decent men to the worst sort of blackmail, violates the theoretical sanctity of domicile, and makes for bitter and relentless enmities,—this fact is now adduced by its ever-hopeful foes as an argument for the abandonment of the whole disgusting crusade.
— from Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

It should keep the peace, prevent men from beating and robbing each other, and preserve the personal liberty of the citizen.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

That was the end of the Roman Forum, and afterwards, when the blood-soaked ashes and heaps of red-hot rubbish had sunk down and hardened to a level surface, the place where the shepherd fathers of Alba Longa had pastured their flocks was called the Campo Vaccino, the Cattle Field, because it was turned into the market for beeves, and rows of trees were planted, and on one side there was a walk where ropes were made, even to our own time.
— from Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Cut away meat from bones and return bones to stock; simmer 30 minutes longer.
— from The Perdue Chicken Cookbook by Mitzi Perdue

In warm weather more frequent baths are required.
— from Retail Shoe Salesmanship by Frank Butterworth

They might fire bullets at random against the camp, but St. Luc will not let them waste lead in such a manner.
— from The Lords of the Wild: A Story of the Old New York Border by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

It differs from the Claude outlines merely in being the kind of work which is produced by an uninventive person dashing about idly, with a brush, instead of drawing determinately wrong, with a pen: on the one hand worse than Claude's, in being lazier; on the other a little better in being more free, but, as representative of tree-form, of course still wholly barbarous.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5) by John Ruskin

To be young and tall and strong and whirled in the cycle of vast events—to play a man's part in a glorious undertaking—to feel that I have enriched the world with my efforts, however humble, or with my body revitalized the soil made fallow by a ravishing monster.
— from Cappy Ricks Retires: But That Doesn't Keep Him from Coming Back Stronger Than Ever by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

I left my friends behind and reconnoitred, intending to get back if possible over the roofs.
— from The Secrets of a Kuttite An Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue by Edward O. (Edward Opotiki) Mousley

" "Great heaven!" exclaimed the young man, falling backward and rolling on the ground.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas