The general idea of good or bad fortune, therefore, creates some concern for the person who has met with it; but the general idea of provocation excites no sympathy with the anger of the man who has received it.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

without delay Ebran, n. provender, fodder Ebraniad, n. a foddering Ebranu, v. to bait, to fodder Ebreidiad, n. a passing onward Ebri, n. egress; a pass word Ebrifed, a. numberless Ebrill, n. April Ebrilliaidd, a. like April Ebru, v. to pass out; to utter Ebrwydd, a. quick, hasty; soon Ebrwyddiad, n. acceleration Ebrwyddo, v. to accelerate Ebrwyddol, a. accelerating Ebrydu, v. to pass on ward Ebryfygiad, n. a neglecting Ebryfygu, v. to neglect Ebwch, n. a gasp, a sigh Ebychiad, n. a sighing Ebychu, v. to gasp; to sigh Ebyd, n. a pass off, or by Ebyri, n. that causes dread Ebyrn, n. a brook bank Ecraidd, a. of harsh nature Ecriad, n. a becoming harsh Ecrwr, n. a sharp dealing person, an extortioner Ech, n. that yields, or pervades Echaeth, n. seclusion; rest Echain, to be secluded; to rest Echdoe, n. the day before yesterday: adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

From the moment she got into the chair, and they had entered within the city walls, she found, as she looked around, through the gauze window, at the bustle in the streets and public places and at the immense concourse of people, everything naturally so unlike what she had seen elsewhere.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

There exists an old book or pamphlet entitled "Napoli senza sole"--Naples without sun.
— from Alone by Norman Douglas

And our proud English nobles sent to a petty German town for a monarch to come and reign in London; and our prelates kissed the ugly hands of his Dutch mistresses, and thought it no dishonour.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

Jacky became a hanger-on of George, and if he did little he cost little; and if a beast strayed he was invaluable, he could follow the creature for miles by a chain of physical evidence no single link of which a civilized man would have seen.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

Three-quarters of a cup, please!" Please observe that, although this aunt and niece always conversed more or less as if each was straining the patience of the other past endurance, no sort of ill-will was thereby implied on either part.
— from A Likely Story by William De Morgan

Not compromises; not gradual and circumspect approaches; not prudent considerations of political economy, nor sound sociological principles; but simple faith in God and a blast on the ram's horn.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

While then we admit that the Megaric succession of philosophers exhibited negative subtlety and vehement love of contentious debate, we must recollect that these qualities were inherited from Sokrates and shared with Plato.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

The emperors, who continually apprehended plots against their lives or power, encouraged numerous spies around the more important of their subjects, and the facility with which slaves could discover the proceedings of their masters inclined the Government in their favour.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

[Pg 353] instead of containing only one pitch, each note shades off into pitches a trifle higher, or lower, or both.
— from The Psychology of Singing A Rational Method of Voice Culture Based on a Scientific Analysis of All Systems, Ancient and Modern by David C. (David Clark) Taylor