No innocent person has a right to suffer for the guilty, and the courts have no right to accept the offer or admit the substitute.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

He went back and was kind to his wife about nothing in particular; he admired his own purity, and decided, “Absolutely simple.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

That very night I perceived her a little intoxicated with the incense she had received, and, though, she still behaved with a particular civility to me, I foresaw, that, as soon as her fortune should be known, she would be surrounded with a swarm of admirers, some of whom might possibly, by excelling me on point of wealth, or in the arts of flattery and scandal, supplant me in her esteem, and find means to make the mother of his party.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

she, her Hic, n. a snap; a trick Hiced, n. a trick, cheat Hicell, n. a long handled bill Hicio, v. to snap; to trick Hid, a. aptness to run through Hidl, a. distilling; shedding: n. a strainer, a colander Hidlaid, a. distilling, dropping; n. a distilling, a dropping Hidlion, n. droppings Hidlo, v. to distil, to run Hif, n. a skin, a surface Hifiad, n. the peeling of the skin Hifio, v. to peel off the skin Hifyn, n. the strip of skin Hiff, n. a flake; a drift Hiffiad, n. a flaking; a drifting Hiffiant, n. a drift; a foam Hiffio, v. to cast flakes; to drift Hifl, n. a gush, a spirt Hifflaid, Hifflo, to gush, to spirt Hiffliad, n. a spirting Hiffyn, n. a flake; a drift Hil, n. a fragment; emanation; produce; issue; progency Hilen, n. a bearing female Hiliad, n. a producing, a generating Hiliant, n. issue, progenry Hilig, a. procreate: n. an issue Hilio, v. to yield, to bring forth, to produce Hiogaeth, n. offspring, issue Hiliogi, v. to render prolific Hilus, a. being in particles Hilyn, n. a particle, emanation Hin, n. weather; temperature Hindda, n. fair weather Hinio, v. to change the weather Hiniog, n. a door-frame; a sill Hinon, n. serene weather Hinoni, v. to become serene Hip, n. a sudden tap Hipiad, n. a tapping, a tipping Hipio, v. to tap, to tip Hir, a. long; tedious; dilatory Hiraeth, n. longing; regret Hiraethiad, n. a longing Hiraethlon, a. full of regret Hiraethog, a. longing Hiraethol, a. longing; regretting Hiraethu, v. to long; to regret Hiraethus, a. longing; regretting Hirâu, v. to lengthen Hirbell, a. very far, distant Hirbwyll, n. deliberate caution Hirchwedl, n. a long story Hirder, n. length; longitude Hirdrig, a. of long tarrying Hirddydd, n. a long day Hireinios, n. a long life Hirfod, n. a long abiding Hirfryd, a. of even mind Hirglust, a. long eared Hirglwyf, n. long-sickness Hirglyw, a. being long eared Hirgrwn, n. a cylinder: a cylinderical Hirgul, a. long and narrow Hirgwyn, n. a long complaint Hirgylch, n. an ellipse Hirhoedl, n. longevity Hirhoedlog, a. long-lived Hiriad, n. a lengthening Hirian, n. a tall lank person Hiriannu, v. to prolong Hiriant, n. length, delay Hirio, v. to lengthen Hirlidio, v. to bear anger long Hirnos, n. a long night Hirnych, n. long affliction Hiroddef, n. longsuffering Hiroed, n. long waiting Hirwlydd, n. the maidenhair Hirtrwm, n. a fribble Hityn, n. a ragamuffin Hithau, pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

that thing there Hyr, n. shock, snarl Hyran, a. aptly parted, divisible Hyranedd, n. divisibility Hyrdd, n. shock; a. eager Hyrddawd, n. impulsion, push Hyrddawl, a. impulsive Hyrddiad, n. a pushing Hyrddiant, n. impulsation Hyrddu, v. to push, to impel, to butt; to make assault Hyrddwynt, n. hurricane Hyrddyn, n. the mullet, a fish Hyred, a. apt to run Hyrif, a. easily numbered Hyrn, n. a hough, holme Hyrwym, a. easily binding Hyrwysg, a. of a free career Hys, n. snarl or knarl Hysathr, a. easily trodden Hysbys, a. evident, manifest Hysbysai, n. index Hysbysiad, n. advertisement; a declaration Hysbysrwydd, n. manifestation, notice Hysbysu, n. to advertise, to inform, to acquaint Hysbyswr, n. one who makes evident, advertiser Hysgyr, n. stave; splinter Hysiad, n. snarling, setting on Hysian, v. to snarl, to set on Hysigl, a. easily shaking Hyson, apt to make noise; noisy Hysp, a. dry, dried up; barren Hyspu, v. to render dry Hyspyddiad, n. an exhausting Hyspyddu, v. to exhaust Hytrach, a. more forward Hytynt, n. a course, a journey Hywad, a. deniable Hywain, a. aptly ministering Hywaith, a. ready at work Hywall, a. apt to fail, fallible Hywan, a. penetrable Hywar, a. manageable Hywedd, a. conformable Hyweddiad, n. a conforming Hyweddiant, n. tractableness Hyweddu, v. to render tractable Hywel, a. conspicuous, evident Hywell, a. being remediable Hywen, a. easily smiling Hywerth, a. vendible, saleable Hywir, a. apt to be true Hywiw, a. apt to be excellent Hywredd,
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

[267] Nothing is promised here about that seed in which he is made the father of all nations, but only about that by which he is the father of the one Israelite nation; for by this seed that land was possessed.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Next, I pittied him, And so would any young wench, o' my Conscience, That ever dream'd, or vow'd her Maydenhead To a yong hansom Man; Then I lov'd him, Extreamely lov'd him, infinitely lov'd him;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Indeed this affair, I may notice in passing, had an extraordinary power of defying the shortness of memories and the length of time: it seemed to live, with a sort of uncanny vitality, in the minds of men, on the tips of their tongues.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

[Pg 129] "Nothing in particular," he answered, with a smile.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

Monsieur Felix Violle, a Frenchman who had become a naturalised Russian, and who carried on business as a wholesale furrier in the Nevski in Petrograd, had a very pretty young wife.
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

He was the starving widow with eight children; the lonely widow of an Indian officer; the one-legged and one-armed hero of half a dozen campaigns; the old woman who had worked for the poor all her life, and was now in poverty herself; and 153 a dozen other characters.
— from Remarkable Rogues The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America; Second Edition by Charles Kingston

The oldest sampler I have ever seen is in the collection of antique articles now in Pilgrim Hall at Plymouth.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

* [pg 219] 'No idle person can be a successful writer of history; therefore Hume, Macaulay, Hallam and Grote must have been industrious.' I. Successful historians are not idle persons Hume and the rest were successful historians they cannot have been idle persons * *
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan

It seemed as though the writers, though not in partnership, had acted in concert on this occasion.
— from Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

We stopped at several towns and estancias , now in Brazil, now in Paraguay; here and there a lone passenger, standing erect in his boat, was rowed out by a pair of peons, and picked up as we slowed down for a moment.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck

"I make no idle pretences," he answered.
— from Guy Kenmore's Wife, and The Rose and the Lily by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

The Indians are not so numerous in proportion here as at Meccah; still Hindustani is by no means uncommonly heard in the streets.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir