For, to make the most generous admission [403] we can in favour of pleasure, we will grant that it may contribute something that possibly gives some spice to life, but certainly nothing that is really expedient.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Let us forget what has passed, Godfrey,’ she said, ‘and let us remain cousins still.’
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The Queen's eye, however, was her own; and pity, goodness, sweet sympathy, blessed it with divinest light.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Knawen , pp. gnawed, S3; see Gnawen .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Some merchandise is altogether imported into the country, others are not altogether imports, especially as some articles are native products, as gold and silver, and many of the aromatics; but brass and iron, purple garments, styrax, saffron, and costus (or white cinnamon), pieces of sculpture, paintings, statues, are not to be procured in the country.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

= KEY: Smooth \a.\. SYN: Even, plain, level, flat, polished, glossy, sleek, soft, unruffled, unobstructed, bland, oily, suave.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

pl. goats, S; see Goot .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

A recent number of the leading St. Paul paper, the 'Pioneer Press,' gives some statistics which furnish a vivid contrast to that old state of things, to wit: Population, autumn of the present year (1882), 71,000; number of letters handled, first half of the year, 1,209,387; number of houses built during three-quarters of the year, 989; their cost, $3,186,000.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

As in a dream, I heard Pastor Grüne say something about a Titania.
— from A Sister's Love: A Novel by W. Heimburg

The terrible darkness and ignorance of these people, forced on them by the social misery of dull necessity, produces greater soul sensations in the spectator than the stilted tragedy of a Corneille.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

“Our friend Phineas hath discovered something of importance to the interests of thee and thy party, George,” said Simeon; “it were well for thee to hear it.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the driven well, water cannot reach the spout unless it has first filtered through the soil to the depth of the driven pipe; after such a journey it is fairly safe, unless very large quantities of sewage are present; generally speaking, such a depth of soil is able to filter satisfactorily the drainage of the limited number of people which a driven well suffices to supply.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

Henry VIII., who, if he rid himself of his wives like a brute, certainly won them like a prince, gave such splendid feasts and pageants in honor of the coronation of Anne and of their previous nuptials as had seldom been accorded to queens of the royal blood.
— from A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Kate Sanborn

L. S. Early one evening in the autumn of '64, a pale girl stood singing Methodist hymns at the summit of Bush Street hill.
— from The Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Bierce

“Be a week before the next mail plane goes south,” said Johnny.
— from Riddle of the Storm A Mystery Story for Boys by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell