ad this year Elest, n. flags, or sedges Elestr, n. flag; fleus de lys Elestren, n. flag; fluer de lys Elf, n. elementary principle Elfaeth, n. elementation Elfed, a. autumn Elfen, n. particle; element Elfeniad, n. elementation Elfenol, elemental, elementary Elfenu, v. to element Elfod, n. intellectual existence Ellyd, intellectual world Elfydd, n. elementary principle, earth, land Elfyddan, n. the earthly globe Elfydden, n. earth: region Elfyddu, v. to element Elff, n. pure state; a demon Elgain, a. supremely fair Elgeth, n. the chin, the jaw Eli, n. a salve, a plaister Eliad, n. a doing with salve Eliaw, v. to apply a salve Elin, n. angle; an elbow Elinad, n. a making an angle Elinaw, v. to angle; to elbow Elinawg, a. angular; jointly Elindys, n. caterpillars Elor, n. a bier; a hearse Elu, v. to move on: to go Elus, a. bounteous, charitable Elusen, n. bounty, alms Eluseraidd, a. of a charitable turn Elusendod, n. alms giving Elusendy, n. alms house Elusengar, a. charitable Elusengarwch, charitableness Eluseni, n. bounty, charity Elusenwr, n. an almoner Elw, n. goods, profit, gain Elwa, v. to get wealth; to trade Elwant, n. profit; lucre Elwch, n. shout of joy; joy Elwi, v. to turn to profit Elwig, a. tending to produce Elwl, n. the reins Elwlen, n. a kidney Elyd, n. what is fused Elydn, n. brass Elydraidd, a like brass, brassy Elydyr, n. brass, bell-metal Elyf, n. that glides: a. gliding Elyw, n. aloes, juice of aloes Ell, n. that is divided or outward; a. outward extreme Ellael, n. an eyebrow Ellaig, n. a pear Ellain, a. radiant, splendid Ellast, n. thistle Ellbwyd, n. famine; hunger Ellmyn, n. foreigners; Germans Elltrewen, n. gossip; stepmother Ellt, n. that is parted off Ellwedd, n. outward aspect Ellydd, n. a cutting off Ellyll, n. an elf or goblin Ellylldan, n. ignis fatuus Ellylles, n. a she goblin Ellyllyn, n. a little imp Ellyn, n. a cutter, a razor Ellynedd, n. the last year
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

105 C H A P. XXXVI T HE whole secret of health, said my father, beginning the sentence again, depending evidently upon the due contention betwixt the radical heat and radical moisture within us;—the least imaginable skill had been sufficient to have maintained it, had not the school-men confounded the task, merely (as Van Helmont, the famous chymist, has proved) by all along mistaking the radical moisture for the tallow and fat of animal bodies.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

X. had seen the crossing since Ealer had, and as the night was particularly drizzly, sullen, and dark, Ealer was considering whether he had not better have X. called to assist in running the place, when the door opened and X. walked in.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

“But do you not understand; you great booby,” she said, “that I hate him just because he married me, because he bought me, in fact; because everything that he says and does, everything that he thinks, acts on my nerves?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Of course, exceptions will be found; but those exceptions will probably be where, as at Yorktown, the military force is struck at directly elsewhere, or, as at Port Mahon, a desirable and powerful base of that force is at stake; though even at Mahon it is doubtful whether the prudence was not misplaced.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The Spanish morning star; a destructive engine resembling the figure of a star, of which there were many thousands on board, and all of them with poisoned points; and were designed to strike at the enemy as they came on board, in case of a close attack.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Final is has ī in the second person singular of verbs in -īre , in māvīs , in compounds of sīs , and in all present subjunctives singular: as, duīs , edīs , velīs , mālīs , nōlīs .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

So early in the season as the 17th of March, however, he is on the move for the rapids of the Miami river, at the upper end of Lake Erie, to establish an additional military post in that quarter, the threatened encroachments on the Indian lands north of the Ohio by the United States rendering such a demonstration expedient.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

For in what sense do we regard the “birth” of Heracles, yes, and of Dionysus as well, since in their case birth has superior and surpassing and distinctive elements, even though it still falls within the limits of human nature, and up to a certain point resembles our own?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I'm wife; I've finished that, I've got an arrow here; I've seen a dying eye
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

[Tullybody], near Stirling, and did eat flesh in Lent, at the said bridal.”
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie

Unduly encouraged by the success of his weekly journal, Dr. Bailey started a daily edition of the Era.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

It is said that each of these hostages offered him a talent for his own freedom, and that much more was offered by that party which was loth to see a democracy established in the city.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"I couldn't," said Elizabeth, "it would have such a dampening effect to feel that there was one person in the room who disliked it, who, no matter how well I played, would always preserve his critical attitude.
— from The Ordeal of Elizabeth by Anonymous

e sprouting, and sent a dampness even through the “bar-skin.”
— from Legends and Tales by Bret Harte

If the thyroid gland has such a definite effect upon bodily health, the query as to how it can be strengthened and stimulated to perform its work more satisfactorily, assumed unusual importance and I was strongly moved to discover the answer.
— from Vitality Supreme by Bernarr Macfadden

This forms one of the most striking and detailed episodes of the history of the Franks by Gregory of Tours.
— from A Book of the Pyrenees by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"To you, whoever you may be (we hope the best ever), Ruth Biddle of Scranton, Pennsylvania, [362] and Annabel Jackson of Nashville, Tennessee, former occupants, do bequeath our good will, our confidence, our social standing (which is thrown in gratis along with the most expensive room in the school), and do entrust to your everlasting protection such of our possessions as you may find useful and necessary.
— from Blue Bonnet in Boston; or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's by Lela Horn Richards