We drank tea with the ladies; and Goldsmith sung Tony Lumpkin's song in his comedy, She Stoops to Conquer, and a very pretty one, to an Irish tune, which he had designed for Miss Hardcastle; but as Mrs. Bulkeley, who played the part, could not sing, it was left out.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But still these prefixed particles, conveying no separate or separable meaning to the mere English reader, cannot possibly act on the mind with the force or liveliness of an original and homogeneous language such as the German is, and besides are confined to certain words.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But the usual honors which the severity of Roman manners had allowed to the wives of princes, could not satisfy either the ambition of Theodora or the fondness of Justinian.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Probably a similar separation of other pathologic conditions, now so entangled as to be indistinguishable, will be evolved.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Peter came next spring cleaning; and the strange thing was that he never knew he had missed a year.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

much less Chwal, n. a spreading Chwaladwy, a. dissipatable Chwaliad, n. a scattering Chwalu, v. to strew, to spread Chwaneg, a. more: n. a greater quantity Chwanegiad, addition Chwanegol, a. additional Chwanen, n. a flea Chwannog, a. desirous, greedy Chwannogi, v. to grow greedy Chwant, n. appetite, lust Chwanta, v. to lust, to covet Chwantach, n. desire, lust Chwantu, v. to lust, to covet Chwantus, a. lustful, lusting Chwap, n. a sudden stroke: adv, instantly Chwapiad, a slapping Chwapio, v. to strike, to slap Chwardd, n. a laugh, laughter Chwarddiad, n. a laughing Chwarddol, a. laughing Chwarddu, v. to laugh Chwarddus, a. apt to laugh Chware, n. play: v. to play Chwarëad, n. a playing Chwarel, dart; a lump, as from milk curdling in the breast Chwareliad, a darting; a kerning Chwarefu, to dart; a kern Chwaren, n. a gland; a blotch Chwarenaidd, a. like a gland Chwareniad, n. a kerning Chwarenog, a. full of glands Chwarenol, glandulous Chwarenu, v. to kern; to form blotches Chwarëol, a playing, sportive Chwareu, n. play: v. to play Chwareuad, n. a playing Chwareuaeth, n. diversion Chwareudŷ, n. a theatre Chwareufa, n. a theatre Chwereugar, a. playful Chwareuol, a. playful Chwarëydd, n. a player Chwarëyddes, n. a female player Chwarëyddiaeth, n. play Chwarf, n. a whirl; a fusee Clrwarwriaeth, n. player’s art Chwarwy, n. disport play Chwarwyad, n. a disporting Chwarwyo, v. to disport Chwarydd, n. a player Chwaryddes, n. a player Chwaryddiad, n. a playing Chwaryddiaeth, n. a play Chwaw, n. a blast, a breeze Chweban, n. a sextain Chweblwydd, a. sexennial Chwech, a. six Chweched, a. sixth Chwechedran, n. sixth part Chwechedwaith, n. sixth time Chwedeg, a. sixty Chwedegfed, a. sixtieth Chwedi, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

“It is for that reason I am delighted to see you,” continued the abbé, “although you have disturbed me in a most important calculation, which, if it succeeded, would possibly change Newton’s system.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Snow lay on the croft and river-bank in undulations softer than the limbs of infancy; it lay with the neatliest finished border on every sloping roof, making the dark-red gables stand out with a new depth of color; it weighed heavily on the laurels and fir-trees, till it fell from them with a shuddering sound; it clothed the rough turnip-field with whiteness, and made the sheep look like dark blotches; the gates were all blocked up with the sloping drifts, and here and there a disregarded four-footed beast stood as if petrified "in unrecumbent sadness"; there was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Peter could not say that it was.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Baker—how much finer is the native name, Kulshan, the Great White Watcher—first on the north; Shuksan next, the place where the storm-winds gather, in the native tongue; then Glacier Peak, with its girdle of ice, thirteen great glaciers; Stewart next with its dizzy horn of rock set in a field of snow; then the great king-peak of all, Rainier, better named by the natives, Takhoma, the fountain breast of milk-white waters; and after this, [Pg 14] Adams, or in the Indian, Klickitat, with St. Helens or Loowit near at hand on the west; then, across the Great River, Hood or Wiyeast, with its pinnacled crest; next southward, Jefferson with its sharp chimney whose top has never yet been touched by human foot; yet beyond, the marvellous group of the Three Sisters, each with its separate personality and yet all together combining in one superb whole; then Mt. Scott, Mt. Thielson, Diamond Peak, Mt. Pitt, and with them we might well include the truncated cone of Mt. Mazama, once the lordliest of the chain, but by some mighty convulsion of nature, shorn of crown and head, and now bearing on its summit instead the most singular body of water, Crater Lake, on all the American continent.
— from The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce by William Denison Lyman

The master of deep policy could not see the rock upon which he was running, and which would have been very clear to him in another person's case.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

Even your prayers can not save me."
— from The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain, and Other Tales by Hannah More

“Keep it up,” ordered Tom, and keep it up the boys did, until the discomfited instructor had to withdraw, vowing vengeance on the lads whom even a diet of bread and water, and the humiliation of being made prisoners, could not subdue.
— from Tom Fairfield's Schooldays; or, The Chums of Elmwood Hall by Allen Chapman

But the storm increased in violence every moment, and the air was so filled with flakes that the young people could not see twenty feet before them.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

During the night of the 18th our army was withdrawn to the south side of the Potomac, crossing near Shepardstown, without loss or molestation.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis

[Pg 93] SUNDAY MUSIC AS CANT WOULD HAVE IT Goldsmith Bowdlerized Punch could not see harm in music on any day, and he printed a charming "petition" from the song-birds of Kensington to Sir Benjamin Hall, expressing their apprehension of an order forbidding them to sing on Sundays.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves

It was characteristic of the man that the announcement of Butler's presence created no stir in him whatsoever.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Brilliant passages could not save it; and it was plain enough that he must ripen into something better before the world would give him the reception which surely awaited him if he should find his true destination.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley