fæderenmǣg m. paternal kinsman , Chr 887 e .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

The influences of slavery had had the same effect on me that they had on other young girls; they had made me prematurely knowing, concerning the evil ways of the world.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Miss Pole kept calling upon us for some expression of regret, by asking if it was not sad that he was gone, and saying— “To think of that pleasant day last June, when he seemed so well!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.”
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

216 The applications which a word acquires by this gradual extension of it from one set of objects to another, Stewart, adopting an expression from Mr. Payne Knight, calls its transitive applications; and after briefly illustrating such of them as are the result of local or casual associations, he proceeds as follows: 217 “But although by far the greater part of the transitive or derivative applications of words depend on casual and unaccountable caprices of the feelings or the fancy, there are certain cases in which they open a very interesting [pg 474] field of philosophical speculation.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

The fiend himself, who is used to a warm climate, might perhaps keep cool in such a temperature, he says, but no one can blame mere men if they now and then lose their wits a little at eighty degrees in the shade.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

When I was mounted, Peter kept close to my side and said: "You're on a topper!
— from Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One by Margot Asquith

Many pigeon keepers clean the houses oftener than that, but if the ventilation is good and the droppings are dry and firm, a house may go uncleaned for weeks or months without detriment to the birds.
— from Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture by John H. (John Henry) Robinson

"A little farewell present," the former explained, as he settled down, "from Miss Pamela Keane." Chapter VIII The Yellow Eye At a few minutes before the popular dining hour, Aaron Rodd, having selected a table, ordered, in consultation with the chief maître d'hôtel , a small dinner, and possessed himself of a theatre guide, sat in the reception lounge of the Carlton Grill-room, awaiting the arrival of Henriette.
— from Aaron Rodd, Diviner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

" He had chanced on a path, he realized, which some moonshiner preferred keeping closed and the girl had been stationed there as a human declaration, "no thoroughfare."
— from When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry by Charles Neville Buck

Thomas Middleton petitions King Charles, on his restoration, to grant his royal letters to the Winchester electors in favour of his son’s admittance “as a child in Winchester College, where he has now spent three years as FELLOW-COMMONER .”
— from The Public School Word-book A conribution to to a historical glossary of words phrases and turns of expression obsolete and in current use peculiar to our great public schools together with some that have been or are modish at the universities by John Stephen Farmer

Word had passed throughout the parish that the Lieutenant-Governor was to be present, and all during the morning people kept coming, some by motor-boats, and others by teams.
— from Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody