I have determined, therefore, to beat a retreat in time, and am actually looking out for some other nest in this great city where old English manners are still kept up, where French is neither eaten, drunk, danced, nor spoken, and where there are no fashionable families of retired tradesmen.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

ANT: Weak, feeble, powerless, Inactive, nerveless, enervated, debile, debilitated, effete, emasculated, inactive, irresolute, indolent.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Amongst which troop although I am the least, Yet equall in perfection with the best, 70 I glory in subjection of his hand, Nor ever did decline his least command:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

I visited both houses nearly every day, during my stay in Washington.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

yfelwoerc n. evil deed , DR 103 1 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Then you no longer feel very sure of anything and, if asked about a trial that was doing well by its own nature but which was turned for the worse because you assisted in it, would not even dare deny that.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

‘De nex’ time I comes back,’ sez he, ‘hit’s gwine be in sumthin’ nuth’r fokes can’t projick none er der dev’ment wid.’
— from Bypaths in Dixie: Folk Tales of the South by Sarah Johnson Cocke

That it was composed of gallant, noble-hearted men, none who were thrown with them can doubt; that they wrought heart and hand for the cause, in whatever strange and novel position, none ever did doubt.
— from Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. (Thomas Cooper) De Leon

Nobody ever did die of unrequited love.
— from Snowflakes and Sunbeams; Or, The Young Fur-traders: A Tale of the Far North by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Alius, Molin., in p. p., q. 50. a. 1, ait, quod definitiones Conciliares in illa Synodo factæ sunt solum actione septima, proinde ea quæ habentur in actionibus præcedentibus non esse definitiones de fide.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

Sanctissimus pater noster et dominus, dominus Johannes divina providentia papa vicesimus secundus optans ferventer maleficos infectores gregis Dominici effugare de medio domus Dei, vult, ordinat, vobisque committit quod auctoritate sua contra eos qui dæmonibus immolant vel ipsos adorant aut homagium ipsis faciant, dando eis in signum cartam scriptam seu aliud quodcumque; vel qui expressa pacta obligatoria faciunt cum eisdem, aut qui operantur vel operari procurant quamcumque imaginem vel quodcumque aliud ad dæmonem alligandum seu cum dæmonum invocatione ad quodcumque maleficium perpetrandum, aut qui sacramento baptismatis abutendo imaginem de cera seu re alia factam baptizant, sive faciunt baptizare, seu alias cum invocatione dæmonum ipsam fabricant quomodolibet, aut faciunt fabricari, aut si scienter baptismus seu ordo vel confirmatio iterantur.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume III by Henry Charles Lea

I have no doubt that it was largely nervousness that kept the mysterious playwright so long fumbling behind the scenes, for it was obvious that it would be no ordinary sort of play, no every-day domestic drama, that would satisfy this young lady, to whom life had given, by way of prologue, the inestimable blessing of wealth, and the privilege, as a matter of course, of choosing as she would among the grooms (that is, the bride-grooms) of the romantic British aristocracy.
— from The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne