Nay, it's mine now, another might have ta'en it up as well: I'll wear it, so I will.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

The ravisher drives on his chariot, and encourages his horses, called, each by his name, along whose necks and manes he shakes the reins, dyed with swarthy rust.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Did a carefully worked out defence - and any other sort would have made no sense - did a carefully worked out defence not also mean he would need to shut himself off from everything else as much as he could?
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

p. 834, whose ambiguous construction shall not tempt me to suspect that he confounded the Nestorian and Monophysite heresies,)
— 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

by, beside, aside Heidiad, n. a swarming Heidio, v. to swarm, to throng Heidiog, a. having swarms Heidiol, a. swarming, flocking Heidden, n. a grain of barley Heiddiad, n. acquisition; merit Heiddio, v. to obtain; to merit Heiddiol, a. meritorious Heiddyd, n. attainment, merit Heigiad, n. a yielding in shoals Heigio, v. to yield abundantly Heigiol, a. yielding in shoals Heilgorn, n. drinking-horn Heiliad, a dealing out, a serving Heilin, a. bounteous, generous Heilio, v. to deal out, to serve Heilydd, n. one who serves Heilyddiaeth, Heilyniaeth, n. the office of a waiter Heilyn, n. a waiter Heini, n. vivacity: a. brisk Heiniad, n. a making active Heiniar, n. a crop, produce Heinif, a. lively, cheerful, brisk Heinio, v. to pervade; to make all alive: to swarm Heiniog, a. being pervaded, teeming, swarming Heintol, a. pervasive; teeming Heintddwyn, a. pestiferous Heintfan, n. a plague spot Heintfanol, a. petechial Heintiad, a. causing contagion Heintio, v. to cause contagion Heintiog, a. contagious Heintiol, a. contagious, epidemic Heintnod, n. a pestilence Heintnodol, a. pestilential Heintus, a. pestilential Heinydd, n. seat of life Heislan, n. a hatchel, an instrument to beat flax Heislaniad, n. a hatchelling Heislanu, v. to hatchel flax Heistain, n. what whets scythes Heisyllt, n. a flax hatchel Heisylltiad, n. a hatchelling Heistyllu, v. to hatchel flax Hêl, n. a holme; a dale Hel, n. a gathering, an aggregate: v. to gather, to hunt Hela, v. to gather, to hunt Helaeth, a. ample, extensive Helaethder, n. spaciousness Helaethiad, n. amplification Helaethiant, n. amplitude Helaethrwydd, n. ampleness; abundance, an ample stock Helaethu, v. to enlarge, to amplify Helaethwr, n. an amplifier Helbul, n. perplexity, trouble Helbulo, v. to be full of care Helbulus, a. full of perplexity Helciad, n. a prying narrowly Helcu, v. to pry carefully Heldrin, n. business; bustle Heledd, n. a place to make salt Helfa, n. an aggregate; a hunt Helffon, n. a hunting pole Helgaeth, n. grime; soot Helgi, n. a hunting dog Helgig, n. venison Helgorn, n. a hunting horn Helgyd, v. to pry carefully Helhynt, n. chase, course Heli, n. brine, salt water Heliad, n. a gathering, a collecting; a hunting: a making of brine Heliedig, a. gathered; hunted Helio, v. to season with brine Helm, n. a stack, a rick Helmiad, n. a forming a rick Helmu, v. to form a rick Helw, n. possession Helwi, v. to have possession Helwr, Heliwr, n. a gatherer; a hunter; a venator Helwriaeth, n. huntmanship
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Hedvig at last said,— “My opinion is that since God knows all, He knows of His own existence, but you must not ask me how He knows it.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'But I think you told me you had altered your chimneys so as to consume the smoke, did you not?' asked Mr. Hale.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

When his wife, fearing for her position, appeared before him in tears, all his ponderous arguments were swept aside by a generous impulse; and though the marriage was never a happy one, Milton never again mentioned his wife's desertion.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The said kingdom has many places on the coast of India; they are seaports with which we are at peace, and in some of them we have factories, namely, Amcola, Mirgeo, Honor, Batecalla, Mamgalor, Bracalor, and Bacanor.
— from A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): A Contribution to the History of India by Nunes, Fernão, active 16th century

‘I am endowed with the acutest hearing, and I can swear that not a mouse has rustled.’
— from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson

She was slight of build, not above medium height, and had blue eyes and abundant chestnut hair.
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

“The strangest thing happened three nights ago,” Mrs. Hodges began, her voice quivering with excitement.
— from Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

Not now in old St. Bavon's tower-Not now at midnight hour— Not now from River Scheldt to Zuyder Zee,
— from The American Union Speaker by John D. (John Dudley) Philbrick

Do you remember this?" and the musician's fingers again slipped over the keys, and one of the great singer's trills rippled through the room, to which Waller nodded approvingly, mopping his wet face with his handkerchief as he listened.
— from The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

There is some truth in that, my son, for as long as I have known him I have never seen him in his cups except that one night at my house.
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

She was originally only virginal in the sense that she rejected marriage, being the goddess of a nomadic and matriarchal hunting people who had not yet adopted marriage, and she was the goddess of childbirth, worshipped with orgiastic dances and phallic emblems.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

“My Captain does not answer me, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done, From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won.
— from The Wonderful Story of Lincoln And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens