With Martin the need for strong drink had vanished.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

And as to the cost—all the wealth of the world, save that necessary for sheer decent existence and for the maintenance of past civilization, is, and of right ought to be, the property of the children for their education.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

2 general name for small dragonflies.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[Nicholas Fouquet, “Surintendant des Finances” in France, had built at Vaux a house which surpassed in magnificence any palace belonging to Louis XIV., prior to the erection of Versailles, and caused much envy to all the Court, especially to Colbert.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

No further service, Doctor, Until I send for thee. CORNELIUS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

a. dropping Dosraniad, n. an analysing Dotiad, n. a confusing Dotian, v. to confuse Dotio, v. to confuse, to puzzle Dra, n. produce, essence Draen, n. prickle, thorn Draenog, n. hedgehog: a. full of prickles Draenblu, n. down feathers Draened, n. urchin, hedgehog Draenen, n. thorn, thornbush Draeneta, v. to hunt urchins Draenglwyd, n. thorn hurdle Draenllwyn, n. thorny brake Drag, n. fragment, piece Dragiad, n. tearing in pieces Dragio, v. to tear in pieces Dragiog, a. having rents Dragon, n. leader in war Dragwm, n. scaly coat Draig, n. dragon; lightning Drain, n. thorns, prickles Draw, ad. yonder, at a distance Dref, n. tie, bundle Drefa, n. twenty four sheaves Drefu, v. to bundle; to thrave Dreng, a. surly, morose Drengyn, a. surly chap Dreigio, v. to lighten at a distance without thunder Dreigiol, a. like a dragon Dreiniach, n. prickles Dreiniog, a. thorny Dreinllyd, a. thorny, prickly Dreinios, n. small prickles Drel, n. clown Drelaidd, a. churlish, boorish Drelgi, n. churlish dog Dreliad, n. a scolding Drelio, v. to use low abuse Drelyn, n. a churlish one Drem, n. sight, look, aspect Drew, n. stench, stink Drewbryf, n. bug Drewedig, a. stinking Drewg, n. the darnel Drewgoed, n. bean trefoil Drewi, n. stench, stink Drewiant, n. a stinking Drewsawr, n. fetid smell Dring, n. a flight of steps Dringediad, n. escalade Dringfa, n. a place to climb Dringiad, n. a climbing Dringiedydd, n. a climber Dringlyn, n. a pendulum Dringo, v. to climb Drud, n. a daring one, a hero: a. daring; dear, costly Drudaniaeth, n. a dearth Drudiant, n. forwardness Drudwen, n. a starling Drudws, n. the starlings Drudwst, n. a chattering Drudwy, n. chatter; starling Drwg, n. evil; mischief: a. evil, bad, naughty Drws, n. a doorway, a door Dry, a. forward, foremost Drych, n. aspect; mirror Drychiannog, a. sightly Drychiannol, a. prospective Drychiant, n. a prospect Drychiolaeth, n. an apparition Drychioli, v. to make apparent Drychol, a. relating to aspect Drychu, v. to make apparent Drychwant, n. evil desire Drychynog, a. sightly, comely Dryd, n. economy: a. thrifty Drydol, a. economical Drygair, n. an ill report Dryganedd, n. evil disposition Dryganiaeth, n. mischief, malignity Dryganian, n. malignity Dryganianu, v. to fly in passion Drygarfer, n. bad custom Drygbwyll, a. irrational Drygdyb, n. bad opinion Drygdybio, v. to think evil of Drygdybus, apt to think evil Drygddamwain, n. mischance Drygddyn, n. mischievous person, wicked fellow Drygedd, n. malignity Drygewyllys, n. ill will Drygfoes, n. ill manners Drygfwriad, n. evil intention Drygfyd, n. adversity Dryghin, n. badly inclined Drygioni, n. badness, mischief Drygionus, n. vicious, wicked Dryglam, n. a mischance Drygnaws, n. peevishness Drygsawr, n. bad smell Drygu, v. to harm, to hurt Drygus, a. tending to evil Drygweithred, n. evil deed Drygweithredwr, n. an evil doer: culprit, felon Drygyrferth, n. a wailing Dryll, n. a piece, a fragment a gun Drylliach, n. dribbets, snips Drylliad, n. a breaking in pieces Dryllio, v. to break in pieces Drylliog, a. shattered, broken Dryllyn, n. small piece Dryllyniach, n. dribblets Dryntol, Dyrnddol, n. the handle, of a cup, pot or jug Dryon, n. the supreme one Drysawr, n. a door-keeper Drysores, n. a door-keeper Drysu, n. briar brambles Dryw, n. a druid; a wren Drywol, a. druidical, druidic Du, n. ink; adj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Alas from what high hope to what relapse 30 Unlook'd for are we fall'n, our eyes beheld Messiah certainly now come, so long Expected of our Fathers; we have heard His words, his wisdom full of grace and truth, Now, now, for sure, deliverance is at hand, The Kingdom shall to Israel be restor'd: Thus we rejoyc'd, but soon our joy is turn'd Into perplexity and new amaze: For whither is he gone, what accident Hath rapt him from us?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

It will now be easy to draw this whole reasoning to a paint, and to prove, that when riches produce any pride or vanity in their possessors, as they never fail so do, it is only by means of a double relation of impressions and ideas.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Laevsky lighted a candle, while Nadyezhda Fyodorovna sat down, and without taking off her cloak and hat, lifted her melancholy, guilty eyes to him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

My wife took her youngest son, Franz, to help her to feed the unfortunate animals on board, who were in a pitiful plight, having been neglected for several days.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

But I had noticed for some days how the neighbors went out of their way to accost her upon our walks; to banter her kindly, to shake hands with her, to wag their heads and look chin-chucks even if they gave none.
— from The Spread Eagle and Other Stories by Gouverneur Morris

673 and 674 are forms of the thunder bird found in 1883 among the Dakotas near Fort Snelling, drawn and interpreted by themselves.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

It contains a great variety of surface and of soil, abundance of large and small streams, many of which are navigable for some distance, and there being no savage inhabitants, every part of it can be visited with perfect safety.
— from The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 The Land of the Orang-utan and the Bird of Paradise; A Narrative of Travel, with Studies of Man and Nature by Alfred Russel Wallace

It is a wonder you were not frozen solid during the work.
— from James Geikie, the Man and the Geologist by Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin

"You will be needed for some days [Pg 13] at Nideck; that is indispensable.
— from The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Erckmann-Chatrian

It was now covered with natron for seventy days; and at the expiration of that time, it was washed and swathed in linen cloth, dipped in gums and resinous substances, when it was delivered to the relatives, and by them placed in the mummy case and sarcophagus.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 by Various

quatuor homines armatos vt irent, et illos fratres interficerent, qui cùm aquam transijssent, facta est nox, et illo sero eos non inuenerunt, statim Melieh omnes Christianos in ciuitate capi fecit, et incarcerauit, media autem nocte fratres surrexerunt dicere matutinum, quos illi Saraceni qui missi fuerant, inuenerunt, et extra burgum, sub quadam arbore adduxerunt, dixerunt eis.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt