SYN: Assertor, vindicator, appellant, litigant.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

The changes observable in Hamlet are afterwards, and gradually, so greatly developed that Shakespeare's style and versification at last become almost new things.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“‘Good—all right,’ said a voice almost lost in the distance.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And when he came into the fjord Thorer and his party heard of it while they lay at Herring, and they were ready to leave the fjord; and they rowed their ships to the strand at Vagnvik, and left them, and came into Theksdal in Seliuhverfe, and Thorer was carried in a litter over the mountains.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

But as for that other school of historians, a perhaps still more "modern" school, a voluptuous and lascivious school which ogles life and the ascetic ideal with equal fervour, which uses the word "artist" as a glove, and has nowadays established a "corner" for itself, in all the praise given to contemplation;
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There it saw a saintly lady named T’ai Yüan, forty years of age, still a virgin, and living alone on Mount Ts’u-o. Air and variegated clouds were the sole nourishment of her vital spirits.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

It is the man that did fall out with my cozen Roger Pepys, once, at the Assizes there, and would have laid him by the heels; but, it seems, a very able lawyer.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

One cannot look out far in any direction over the olive woods which like a soft grey flood surge over the fertile country, without being checked by the cool, shadowy mountains, St. Angelo vast and lovely, Vico Alvano thrusting up an almost perfect cone; and many another peak showing towards Sorrento a slope of crag and pasture-land which on its other face drops in sheer precipices to the Gulf of Salerno.
— from Naples, Past and Present by Arthur H. (Arthur Hamilton) Norway

The walks were thronged with company of the first description, among whom we noticed the Duke of Argyle, the Duchess of Richmond, Bedford, and Rutland; the Marquess of Worcester, the Marquess and Marchioness of Tavistock; their Excellencies the French and Spanish Ambassadors, Viscount and Lady Castlereagh; Lords George Cavendish, Petersham, Foley, Clare, Grantham, Harrington, Forbes, Clifford, and Kier; Ladies Brownlow, Warburton, and Otway; Sir Harry Hotham, Sir William Elliot, and Mr. Holme Sumner, M.P." (p. 353)
— from Social England under the Regency, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Ashton

The seigneur explained that he had already supped, but having allowed himself to be persuaded into joining them, he ended by eating more than Ephraim Savage, drinking more than Du Lhut, and finally by singing a very amorous little French chanson with a tra-le-ra chorus, the words of which, fortunately for the peace of the company, were entirely unintelligible to the Bostonian.
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle

Vedit ó re, a seere, a viewer, a looker, a beholder, a suruayer.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Spain, Portugal, and Italy are supplied, and vessels are loaded with it for the East and West Indies and the continent of America.”
— from Chats on English China by Arthur Hayden

Ever to have his purse fairly well filled with crowns if not guineas had been his lot in those days, as it had also been to have good credit at the fashioners, to be able to treat his friends to a fine turtle or a turbot at the coffee-houses he used, to take a hand at ombra or at whisk, to play at pass-dice or at billiards, and to be always carefully bedeck't in the best of satins and velvets and laces, and to eat and drink of the best.
— from The Land of Bondage: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

It may be mentioned that as considerable parts of the Goodwin Sands are visible at low-water of neap tides, such parts are entitled to a three-mile limit in the same way as the dependent banks on the German coast.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

He was strong and vigorous and loved all kinds of outdoor sports.
— from Once Upon a Time in Connecticut by Caroline Clifford Newton

Cholmondeley has been here again, after going as far south as Virginia, and left for Canada about three weeks ago.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

Dey set and vait all 'lone.
— from Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill