Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

because if you go to war with those people, they will provent the traders in the north from bringing you Guns Powder & Ball and by that means distress you verry much, but whin you will have Certain Suppliers from your Great American father of all those articls you will not Suffer any nation to insult you &c. after about two hours conversation on various Subjects all of which tended towards their Situation &c. I informed them I Should return to the fort, the Chief Said they all thanked me verry much for the fatherly protection which I Showed towards them, that the Village had been Crying all the night and day for the death of the brave young man, who fell but now they would wipe away their tears, and rejoice in their fathers protection-and Cry no more
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Dominant species belonging to the larger groups tend to give birth to new and dominant forms; so that each large group tends to become still larger, and at the same time more divergent in character.
— 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

3 — nga [ noun ] a diehard, fanatic follower or believer of.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Behind it Savka’s dog Kutka stood out like a black patch, and not a dozen feet from Kutka the ground ended abruptly in the steep bank of the little river.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

These are matters which took place under conditions of a nature altogether different from our own, and which transcend our present understanding.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Ah! pursued I, dost thou not almost despair for having rioted in such false pleasure?
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

as, so as, like as Mehefin, n. the month of June Mehin, n. fat, fat flesh, grease Mehinen, n. the leaf of fat Mehino, v. to become greasy Mehinog, a. having grease Meia, v. to take the field Meiad, n. a taking the field Meibionain, Meibionos, n. little children Meichiad, n. a becoming surety, a becoming bail Meichio, v. to bail, to be bail Meichiog, a. having surety Meidr, n. a measure, a rule Meio, v. to make a campaign Meidradydd, n. a metre Meidraeth, measurement Meidriad, n. one who is able to effect or to accomplish Meidro, v. to limit: to mete Meidrol, a. limitable, comprehending Meidroldeb, n. comprehensiveness, capacity Meidroli, v. to bring within measure Meidwy, n. a solitary one, a hermit Meidwyfod, n. a hermitage Meidyn, n. a point; a moment Meiddiad, n. a curdling Meiddion, n. curds and whey Meiddioni, v. to turn to curds Meiddlyd, a. wheyey, curdled Meiddlyn, n. whey drink Meiddog, a. abounding with whey Meifon, n. raspberries Meigen, n. a recess, a nook Meigiad, n. a turning suddenly; a happening Meigrad, n. a starting suddenly Meigro, v. to startle, to start Meigryn, n. a startle; a vertigo Meiliad, n. a lading with a bowl Meiliaid, n. a bowlful Meiliannu, v. to uphold Meiliant, n. an upholding Meilierydd, n. the skylark Meilio, v. to hold up; to put in a bowl; to raise with a bowl Meiliorn, n. transgression Meiliorni, v. to transgress Meilon, n. powder, flour Meiloni, v. to reduce to powder Meilwn, n. the small of the leg Meilyn, n. a loop, an eye Meilyndorch, n. a sashoon Meillion, n. clover, trefoil Meillionen, n. a trefoil Meillioni, v. to yield trefoil Meillionog, a. having trefoils Meinâd, n. a making fine Meinâu, v. to make fine or slender Meincio, v. to fix benches Meinder, n. exility, fineness Meindwf, a. of slender growth Mein-gan, n. a delicate fair one Meinin, a. of stone, stony Meinir, n. one of delicate growth Meinoles, n. a delicate thing Meinwar, a. delicate and gentle Meinwedd, n. a delicate aspect Meinwen, n. one delicately fair Meinwyr, a. delicately chaste Meinyn, n. a lump of stone Meipen, n. a turnip Meiriol, a. dissolving, thawing Meiriolad, n. a thawing Meirioli, v. to dissolve, to thaw Meirion, n. a tender; a dairy man Meiriones, n. a dairymaid Meirioni, n. superintendence Meisydd, n. a steward; a mayor Meisgyn, n. a moth Meisiad, n. a devising Meisio, v. to devise, to invent Meisiol, a. devising, inventive Meistr, n. a master, a lord Meistres, n. a mistress Meistrol, a. masterely, master Meistrolaeth, n. mastery Meistrolaethu, v. to get mastery Meistroll, v. to sway as master Meityn, n. a point, a space Meithdra, n. tediousness Meithio, v. to make tedious Meithiw, a. extensive, tedious Meithrin, n. nurture, nursing: v. to nourish Meithrinfa, n. a seminary Meithriniad, n. a nurturing Meithrinol, a. nurturing Mêl, n. honey.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

2 diem dixit = named a day ( for his trial before the Comitia ).
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

He ardently hoped that the commissioners, then assembled at Ghent, would agree upon a treaty; and there seemed to be no good reason why there should not be peace when nothing was [312] to be said of the cause of the war, no apology demanded for the past, and no stipulation for the future.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay

While the heat of a fire that was maintained night and day for many months had seasoned the sticks first and then dried and parched them to the condition of tinder, capable of being ignited by the merest spark.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

Even now, your dreams are full of money-bags; your cares are how to add superfluity to wealth; ye fawn upon the rich, ye scorn the poor, ye pine and toil both night and day for gold, more gold; and are ye happy?
— from The Crock of Gold: A Rural Novel by Martin Farquhar Tupper

As Kirke and Ralph rushed out from their hut, they saw the ground at the foot of the next one strewn with the bleeding corpses of the father and three sons who dwelt there, while the aged grandmother crouched shuddering among the blazing rafters, and pretty little Miss Sunshine, the gay, merry child who had played a hundred tricks upon them, and laughed with them so often, clung to the kingpost, [Pg 226] shrieking with terror, while the dacoits chopped and mangled the bodies of her nearest and dearest friends, and leapt up howling to reach her, and sweep her into the same holocaust.
— from Ralph Denham's Adventures in Burma: A Tale of the Burmese Jungle by G. (George) Norway

La nature nous avait donc faits pour être au dessous des animaux, ou du moins pour faire par là même mieux éclater les prodiges de l’éducation, qui seule nous tire du niveau et nous élève enfin au-dessus d’eux.
— from Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Had such been the case, that unfortunate spirit would have had no [Pg 2] sinecure of it, but rather must have kept howling night and day for nine hundred years or so, in order to have got through her work at all.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

In this book I have endeavoured to investigate the progress of humanity, and found that it shows all the phases of individual movement, the evidence employed being historical, and, therefore, of a nature altogether different from that on which our conclusions in the collateral instances rest.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume II (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper