Cuðmon , sb. acquaintance, kinsman, S.—AS. cúðman .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

S. Ahala killed Sp. Maelius for aiming at the royal power .
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Miss Anthony felt the loss deeply, as he had been her warm personal friend for twenty-five years and always ready with financial aid for her projects; but she suffered a keener shock one week later when the news came of the sudden death of Martha C. Wright, January 4, 1875.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The secretary also kept silence, so that we stood facing each other like a pair of statues.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There was something in this proposition, albeit it was said without the slightest consciousness or application, which so alarmed his sister, that Nicholas laughingly changed the subject to domestic matters, and thus gathered, by degrees, as they left the room and went upstairs together, how lonely Smike had been all night—and by very slow degrees, too; for on this subject also, Kate seemed to speak with some reluctance.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

(13) Captain John Stuart (p. 44 ): This distinguished officer was contemporaneous with Sir William Johnson, and sprang from the same adventurous Keltic stock which has furnished so many men conspicuous in our early Indian history.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

For she could not only sing like a lark, or a Mrs. Billington, and dance like Hillisberg or Parisot; and embroider beautifully; and spell as well as a Dixonary itself; but she had such a kindly, smiling, tender, gentle, generous heart of her own, as won the love of everybody who came near her, from Minerva herself down to the poor girl in the scullery, and the one-eyed tart-woman's daughter, who was permitted to vend her wares once a week to the young ladies in the Mall.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Yes, you did,” said Fessenden, so quietly that again Cicely was silent, and Kitty sat surprised almost to breathlessness.
— from The Clue by Carolyn Wells

And when he came he was well coloured, and well made of his limbs, that all knights that saw him said it were pity that such a knight should die in prison.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

My only comfort is (as I mean to attempt the subject), that I have dabbled in several branches of Natural History, and seen good specific men work out my species, and know something of geology (an indispensable union); and though I shall get more kicks than half-pennies, I will, life serving, attempt my work.
— from Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter, and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters by Charles Darwin

Ablíhag (ablíhug) sayu ang klási sunud túig, Classes will open early next year.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The California Star printed in full the account of the Fallon party, and blood-curdling editorials increased public sentiment against Keseberg, stamping him with the mark of Cain, and closing the door of every home against him.
— from The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate by Eliza Poor Donner Houghton

John Gibson Lockhart was a man of many gifts and accomplishments, a good scholar, a keen satirist and critic, a powerful novelist, an excellent translator.
— from The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

He feels it his duty for the present to "lie still," as Keble says, to think, it may be to suffer.
— from A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.