I enjoy making a political speech—I have made a good many and shall make more—but I would rather speak on religion than on politics.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

rescou- , stem of rescouant , rescoant , pr.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

ANT: Unassisting, unconducive, unpromotive, redundant, superfluous, obstructive, retardative, irrelevant, cumbersome.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

No, I am quite well,” Raskolnikov snapped out rudely and angrily, completely changing his tone.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the same way, since there is a regular scale of reduction for plates painted alike, we actually save by having two figures painted on that odd plate.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I have every reason to extol the compelling mental vigor which I found to be the real subduer of royal Bengals." "Do you think, revered swami, that I could ever fight tigers?"
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

It was my purpose to have reached the Caspian, and taken boats to the Volga, and up that river as far as navigation would permit, but we were dissuaded by the Grand-Duke Michael, Governor-General of the Caucasas, and took carriages six hundred miles to Taganrog, on the Sea of Azof, to which point the railroad system of Russia was completed.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It appeared that the widgeon obtained its food by a regular system of robbery and plunder perpetrated upon the community of the canvass-backs.
— from Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid

The remarkable series of romances, The House of the Wolfings (1889), The Roots of the Mountains (1890), The Story of the Glittering Plain (1891), The Wood Beyond the World (1895), The Well at the World's End (1896) and The Sundering Flood (posthumous), are none of them distinctively Old Norse in geography or in story, but they all have the flavor of the saga-translations, and are all the better for it.
— from The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature by Conrad Hjalmar Nordby

[22] But the majority of them would puzzle an Englishman, just as the English luggage-van , permanent-way , goods-waggon , guard , carrier , booking-office , return-ticket , railway-rug , R. S. O. (railway sub-office), tripper , line , points , shunt , metals and bogie would puzzle the average untravelled American.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

Then into the steady hum of the bees there broke a new note, half growl, half whine, followed by the ripping sound of rent wood.
— from The Boy Scouts of Woodcraft Camp by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

With the aid of a telescope we could see that these men, some twenty in number, had seated themselves round the fire—which they had probably kindled for the twofold purpose of providing themselves with light and smoking away the mosquitoes—and were industriously passing round a bulky jar, presumably containing spirits, from which, as it came round, each man scrupulously replenished his pannikin; the intervals not devoted to the more important business of drinking being occupied in the singing, or rather shouting , of ribald songs, in the performance of which every man’s aim appeared to be to out-yell everybody else.
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

Mr. Randolph said on recurring to the documents he found the price of the ratio in 1800 to have been 28 cents, whilst in the last year it was put 20; so that rations were now nearly a third cheaper than they were nine years ago, and the difference in the expenses of the Naval Establishment was, therefore, the more unaccountable.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

51.6 redimendī suī : ‘of ransoming themselves.’
— from Selections from Viri Romae by C. F. L'Homond