Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Now, let us add, perhaps, two hundred men with a decided talent, one thousand others possessing various talents, and ten thousand superior intellects.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When, however, a month had passed, and Phillotson casually admitted to an acquaintance that he did not know where his wife was staying, curiosity began to be aroused; till, jumping to conclusions, people ventured to affirm that Sue had played him false and run away from him.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The preceding examples are sufficient to show the character of these ceremonies: they are dramas, but of a particular variety; they act, or at least they are believed to act, upon the course of nature.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

scarcely Prinâu, v. to make or grow scarce Prinder, n. scarcity, want Print, n. what forms a notch, a print Printiad, n. a printing Printio, v. to imprint, to print Prinwydden, n. a scarlet oak Prïod, appropriate; fit; owned; married Prïodadwy, a. marriageable Prïodas, n. marriage, a wedding Prïodasfab, n. a bridegroom Prïodasferch, n. a bride Prïodasgerdd, n. epithalamium Prïodasol, a. matrimonial Prïodedig, a. appropriated Prïodfab, n. a bridegroom Prïodferch, n. a bride Prïodi, v. to espouse, to marry Prïodiad, n. a marrying Prïodol, a. appropriate; married Prïodoldeb, n. appropriateness Prïodolder, n. propriety; attribute; property; tile Prïodoli, v. to appropriate Prïodoliad, n. appropriation Prïodolaeth, n. an attribute Prïodoliaethu, v. to attribute Prïodor, n. proprietor; a native Prïodori, v. to be a proprietor Prïodoriaeth, n. proprietorship Prion, n. origination; imps Prionyn, n. a little imp Pris, n. rate, value, price Prisiad, n. a valuation Prisio, v. to value, to prize Prisiedig, a. valued, appraised Proc, n. thrust, a stab Prociad, n. thrusting, stabbing Procio, v. to thrust, to stab Proest, n. a counterchange Profadwy, a. provable, essayable Profedig, a. proved, approved Profedigaeth, n. a probation; a temptation Profi, v. to prove; to taste Profiad, n. a proving; a probation; a tasting; an essay Profiadol, a. probationary Profiant, a. a probation Proffes, n. profession, vow Proffesiad, a. a professing Proffesu, v. to profess, to vow Proffeswr, n. a professor Prophwyd, n. a prophet Prophwydo, v. to prophecy Prophwydol, a. prophetical Prophwydoliaeth, n. prophecy Prudd, a. prudent; serious; sad Pruddâu, v. to become serious Prudd-der, n. seriousness Prwy, n. what reaches forward; an agent Prwys, n. tendency to protrude Prwysg, n. what is impending or surmounting Prwysiad, n. a protruding Prwyso, v. to protrude Prwyst, n. what causes anxiety Prwysti, n. anxiety, solicitude Prwystl, a. tumultuous, bustling Prwyatlo, v. to bustle, to agitate Pry, n. produce, food, victuals Pryd, n. a period, a season, a time; meal time; aspect: adv. seeing that, as it is, whilst Pryder, n. anxiety, solicitude Pryderiad, n. a being anxious Pryderol, a. anxious; providen Pryderu, v. to be anxious Pryderus, a. anxious, thoughtful Prydfardd, n. recording bard Prydferth, a. handsome, comely Prydferthwch, n. comeliness Prydferthu, v. to render comely Prydiad, n. a delineating of nature Prydiaith, n. poetical language Prydio, v. to fix a season Prydiol, a. timely, seasonable Prydlaeth, n. milk at once Prydlon, a. seasonable Prydlonder, n. seasonableness Prydnawn, n. the afternoon Prydnawnbryd, Prydnawnfwyd, n. dinner Prydnawn-gwaith, n. afternoon Pryrnawnol, a. of the afternoon Prydred, n. a chronology Prydn, v. to delineate, to poetise Prydus, a. comely; seasonable Prydydd, n. poet Prydyddes, n. a poetess Prydyddiad, n. a poetising Prydyddiaeth, n. poetry Prydyddol, a. poetic, poetical Prydyddu, v. to compose poetry Prydd, n. what is productive: a. teeming, luxuriant Pryddâd, n. a luxuriating Pryddest, n. poetics; metre Pryddestu, v. to compose metrically Pryf, a what is generated; vermin: a worm Pryfad, n. an animal; vermin Pryfediad, v. vermination Pryfedu, v. to breed worms Pryfeta, v. to hunt vermin Pryfig, a. having worms Pryfyg, n. a worm Pryn, n. e. take; purchase; merit: a. bought, purchased Pryned, n. what takes hold; a hand Prynedig, a. purchased, bought Prynedigaeth, n. redemption Prynol, a. purchasing, buying Prynu, v. to take hold; to buy; to redeem Prynwr, n. a buyer, a purchaser, a redeemer Prysel, n. a covert, a brake Pryselu, v. to become braky Prysg, n. what is over: brushwood Prysgl, n. a copse; brushwood Prysgliach, n. stunted trees Prysglwyn, n. a copse Prysgoed, n. brushwood Prysgyll, n. a hazel copse Prystell, n. tumalt, uproar Prysu, v. to form a covert or resort Prysur, a. busy, diligent; serious Prysurdeb, n. assiduity; haste Prysuriad, n. a hastening on Prysuro, v. to make haste Prysurwch, n. state of haste Puch, n. sigh; grunt Pucho, v. to sigh; to pant; to long Pud, n. what tends to allure Pul, n. what tends to straiten Pum, n. tendency to form: a. five Pumbys, a. five-fingered Pumcanfed, a. five hundredth Pumcanmil, a. five hundred thousand Pumcant, a. five hundred Pumdalen, n. a cinquefold Pumdeg, a. fifty Pummil, a. five thousand Pumnalen, n. a cinquefold Pumochor, n. a pentagon Pump, a. five Pumplyg, a quintuple Pumsill, a. of five syllables Pumtant, n. a pentachord Pumtro, a. five times or turns Pumwaith, adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Thus we have found, that the first principle, viz, the agreeable idea of those objects, which riches afford the enjoyment of; resolves itself in a great measure into the third, and becomes a sympathy with the person we esteem or love.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

From July 6th, 1892, I had absolutely no connection with politics until July 1st of this year when, advised by Don Pio Valenzuela that an uprising was proposed, I counselled against it, trying to convince him with arguments.
— from The Philippines a Century Hence by José Rizal

The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

When the Mormon had recovered his breath, Passepartout ventured to ask him politely how many wives he had; for, from the manner in which he had decamped, it might be thought that he had twenty at least.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

We find him, accordingly, paying visits to Alexander II in St. Petersburg, to King Oscar II in Stockholm (where he received a telegram announcing the birth of his fifth son), to Christian IX in Copenhagen, to Kaiser Franz Joseph in Vienna and to King Humbert in Rome.
— from William of Germany by Stanley Shaw

This was not, by all accounts, one of his most pleasant visits to a country of which he is very fond.
— from Giacomo Puccini by Wakeling Dry

They are intended for the Confessor, and Protestants view them as intended for the Preacher.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

Ought not the existence of the various types of thinking which we have reviewed, each so splendid for certain purposes, yet all conflicting still, and neither one of them able to support a claim of absolute veracity, to awaken a presumption favorable to the pragmatistic view that all our theories are INSTRUMENTAL, are mental modes of ADAPTATION to reality, rather than revelations or gnostic answers to some divinely instituted world-enigma?
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

After a painful voyage, they again reached the mouth of the Borysthenes; but their provisions were exhausted; the season was unfavorable; they passed the winter on the ice; and, before they could prosecute their march, Swatoslaus was surprised and oppressed by the neighboring tribes with whom the Greeks entertained a perpetual and useful correspondence.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon

Therefore, just as they planned for grand abodes, which they called temples, and for consecrated servants, to whom they gave the name of priests, and for magnificent statues, and vessels of gold, and marble tables, and purple vestments, they also determined, in order that this feeling of homage might not remain unexpressed, to strive to win the favour of the deity by lofty words, subjecting the powers above to the softening influences of songs of praise, sacred hymns remote from all the forms of speech that
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

[xxxvii] Said—by hearsay from old knights and squires, and that they had always continued their possession of the said arms; and that they had always been reputed to be their arms, as the common fame and the public voice testifies and had testified; and he also said, that when he had seen the said arms in banners, glass, paintings, and vestments, they were commonly called the arms of Scrope.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

I had nobody with me but the youth whom my nephew had given me to attend me as a servant and who proved very trusty and diligent; and my partner had nobody with him but one servant, who was a kinsman.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe