If that Man, or Assembly, that hath the Soveraign Power, disclaime any Right essentiall to the Soveraignty, whereby there accrueth to the Subject, any liberty inconsistent with the Soveraign Power, that is to say, with the very being of a Common-wealth, if the Subject shall refuse to obey the Command in any thing, contrary to the liberty granted, this is neverthelesse a Sinne, and contrary to the duty of the Subject: for he ought to take notice of what is inconsistent with the Soveraignty, because it was erected by his own consent, and for his own defence; and that such liberty as is inconsistent with it, was granted through ignorance of the evill consequence thereof.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But there is no great appearance that this isle was this New World so lately discovered: for that almost touched upon Spain, and it were an incredible effect of an inundation, to have tumbled back so prodigious a mass, above twelve hundred leagues: besides that our modern navigators have already almost discovered it to be no island, but terra firma, and continent with the East Indies on the one side, and with the lands under the two poles on the other side; or, if it be separate from them, it is by so narrow a strait and channel, that it none the more deserves the name of an island for that.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But they exist down there in the depths of our nature; and should anything call them forth, they will come and show themselves, just as we now see them in others.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

Earl Sigvalde steered with his fleet northwards around Stad, and came to the land at the Herey Isles.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

how famous it is that nobody knows That my name is Rumpelstiltskin.'" When the Queen heard this she was very glad, for now she knew the name; and soon after came the Dwarf, and asked, "Now, my lady Queen, what is my name?"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Twf, n. growth; increase Twff, n. a rise, a lift; a tuft Twng, n. a lot, a plight, an oath Twl, n. what is rounded; a toft Twlc, n. a cot, a hovel, a stye Twlch, n. a tump, a knoll Twlffen, n. a squabby female Twlffyn, n. a squab, a chub Twlo, n. a bulk; a booth, a hut Twll, n. a hole; a pit; a dimple.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

perhaps, peradventure Ysgaw, n. elder wood Ysgawen, n. an elder tree Ysgawn, n. light body: a. light Ysgecriad, n. a bickering Ysgecru, v. to bicker, to brawl Ysgeler, a. atrocious Ysgelerdra, n. atrociousness Ysgentyn, n. a caperer, a buffoon Ysgerbwd, n. skeleton, a carcass Ysgeth, n. a spear, a lance Ysgethriad, n. an iterating Ysgethrg, v. to iterate, to repeat Ysgi, n. a cutting off; a parer; a hat Ysgien, n. a slicer; a cymetar; turner’s lathe; tall woman Ysgil, n. a recess, a nook Ysgiliad, n. a setting behind Ysgilio, v. to set behind Ysgin, n. a skin robe, a pelisse Ysgip, n. a quick snatch Ysgipiad, n. a snatching off Ysgipio, v. to snatch away Ysgipiol, a. snatching Ysgiw, n. a screen, a settle; a third cousin Ysgiwiad, n. a sheltering Ysgiwio, n. to screen, to shelter Ysg awring, Ysgrawling, n. glue, cement Ysglawringo, v. to glue Ysglem, n. a slice, a sliver Ysglemio, v. to slice, to sliver Ysglen, n. a sex, a kind Ysglenol, a. sexual Ysglent, n. a slide; adrift Ysglyn, n. a knob, a knot Ysglino, v. to form a knob Ysglöen, n. a damsel, a maid Ysglofen, n. a slip, a spray Ysglyf, n. what seeks for prey Ysglyfaeth, n. depredation; prey, spoil Ysglyfaethiad, n. a depredating Ysglyfaethu, v. to depredate, to spoil Ysglyfiad, n. a depredator Ysglyfio, v. to depredate, to prey on Ysglymu, v. to form a knot Ysgoad, n. a starting aside Ysgoegyn, n. a coxcomb Ysgog, n. motion, stir Ysgogi, v. to wag, to stir Ysgogiad, n. a wagging, a stirring Ysgogyn, n. to flutterer Ysgol, n. a school: n. a peak; a ladder: a. vehement, active Ysgoläig, n. a scholar Ysgoleigdod, n. scholarship Ysgolelgiaeth, n. a schooling Ysgoleigio, v. to school Ysgolfaer, n. a proctor Ysgoliad, n. a schooling Ysgolp, n. a spar Ysgor, n. a rampart, a bulwark Ysgorfa, n. a place of defence Ysgori, v. to encircle, to hem Ysgoriad, n. an entrenching Ysgornio, v. to scorn, slight Ysgoth, n. a purge, a voidance Ysgothfa, n. privy-house Ysgrad, n. what is rigid or stiff Ysgraell, Ysgraen, n. the sea swallow Ysgraf, n. what scrapes off Ysgrafell, n. a scraper; a rasp; a currycomb Ysgrafellu, v. to rasp, to scrape Ysgrafiad, n. a scraping Ysgrafu, v. to scrape, to grate Ysgraf, n. a ferry boat, a ferry Ysgraffiniad, n. a scarifying Ysgraffinio, v. to scarify Ysgrain, n. what is crawling Ysgrawen, n. a hard crust Ysgrech, n. a scream Ysgrechiad, n. a shrieking Ysgrechian, v. to keep screaming Ysgrechio, to scream, to shriek Ysgrechog, n. a jay Ysgrepan, n. a wallet, a scrip Ysgri, n. a shriek, a scream Ysgrif, n. a notch; a writing Ysgrifen, n. a piece of writing Ysgrifeniad, n. a writing Ysgrifenu, v. to write, to pen Ysgrifenydd, n. a scribe, a writer Ysgnfiad, n. a writing Ysgrifo, v. to notch; to write Ysgrifwas, n. a clerk Ysgrogell, n. a draw bridge Ysgrubliad, Ysgrubl, n. a beast, a brute Ysgrud, n. a frame; a skeleton Ysgrwd, n. a carcase Ysgrwth, n. a heap, a bulk Ysgryd, n. a shiver, a shake Ysgrydiad, n. a shivering Ysgrythyr, n. the scripture Ysgrythyrol, a. scriptural Ysgub, n. a sheaf; a besom Ysgubell, n. a whisk; a besom, a broom Ysgubiad, n. a sweeping Ysgubion, n. sweepings Ysgubo, v. to whisk; to sweep Ysgubor, n. a barn Ysguborio, v. to put in a barn Ysguth, n. a scud; a whisk Ysguthan, n. a ringdove, a wood-pigeon Ysguthell, n. a scudder Ysguthiad, n. a scudding Ysgw, n. guard, care; refuge Ysgwad, n. a guarding Ysgwaeth, n. guardianship Ysgwaetheroedd, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

‘We’ll only have a lunch at noon,’ Antonia said, and cook the geese for supper, when our papa will be here.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

"It is correct," said the King, "so far as the numbers and sexes are concerned, though I know not what you mean by 'right' and 'left'.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Some readers perchance may think that such a fact should have remained unnoticed, as casting a blemish on his hitherto pure and immaculate character; but a regard to what may be called historical justice, will not allow such a circumstance to be concealed, while the habitual licentious conduct of the highest dignitaries of the Church at that time are, in the course of the present work, so frequently alluded to.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox

The Didoʼs largest boat, the pinnace, being under repair, Mr. Brooke lent a large boat which he had had built by the natives at Sarāwak, and called the Jolly Bachelor.
— from The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy by Rajah of Sarawak James

Now, the grave yawning before him, he sees that sword nearer and sharper, and conscious that it is his last public duty he sends forth to all his country a blast of warning more earnest and more solemn than ever.
— from The Brothers' War by John C. (John Calvin) Reed

They are inevitably prone to take Hebraism as the law of human development, and not as simply a contribution to it, however precious.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

The story might have been told, and the characters fully represented, in one-third of the space devoted to them, yet description and narration are so artfully combined that each assists to give interest to the other.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Like shriveled leaves, these worn out creeds Are dropping from Religion's tree; The world begins to know its needs, And souls are crying to be free.
— from Custer, and Other Poems. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox