For there his thievish eyes had seen All sorts of game go out and in-- Nice sucking calves, and lambs and sheep; And turkeys by the regiment, With steps so proud, and necks so bent, They'd make a daintier glutton weep.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

"She thought it was her signor marito who had sent them, and she cried a little and said it was a folly." Her mistress smiled and took the yellow envelope.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Between agonizing moments, she chatted a little, and said it took her mind off her sufferings.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Father was so splendid—so clever and loving and sympathetic.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

a multitude Cywely, n. a bedfellow Cywelyes, n. a concubine Cywelyog, a. having a bedfellow Cywelogaeth, n. concubinage Cywen, n. a young hen Cywenig, n. a little pullet Cywer, n. a curdler; a rennet Cywerth, n. equivalence Cywerthol, a. equivalent Cywerthu, v. to bargain Cywerthyddu, v. to estimate Cywilydd, n. shame, disgrace Cywilyddgar, a. shameful Cywilyddiad, n. a shaming Cywilyddio, v. to shame Cywilyddus, a. shameful Cywir, a. correct, sincere Cywirdeb, n. correctness Cywiriad, n. a loyalist Cywirio, v. to perfect; to fulfil; to be sincere Cywrain, a. skilful; accurate Cywraint, n. a skilful one Cywreindeb, n. accuracy Cywreiniad, a. making accurate Cywreinio, v. to make exact Cywreiniwr, n. one who makes perfect Cywreinrwydd, n. skilfulness Cywreinwaith, n. curious workmanship Cywres, n. a concubine Cywydd, n. a kind of metre; perception; conscience Cywyddiaeth, n. rationality Cywyddol, a. conscious Cywyll, n. culture, tillage Cywyllu, v. to culture Cywyn, n. a rise, a swell Chwa, n. a blast, a puff Chwad, n. a gust, a jerk Chwaer, Chwiorydd, n. a sister Chwaerol, a. like a sister Chwaroliaeth, n. a sisterhood Chwaeth, n. savour, taste Chwaethiad, n. a tasting Chwaethu, v. to savour Chwrethus, a. supid, gustful Chwaf, n. a strong gust:
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Among savage or barbarous nations, a hundredth, or little more than a hundredth part of the labour of the whole year, will be sufficient to provide them with such clothing and lodging as satisfy the greater part of the people.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Who is he? where from?" &c. Miss Bradly smiled, coaxingly and lovingly, as she answered: "Well, Tildy, darling, I have a friend from the North, who is travelling for pleasure through the valley of the Mississippi;
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

She catches a line as she draws out her thread, and fixes it in her memory with the setting of the next stitch.
— from Fifteen Days: An Extract from Edward Colvil's Journal by Mary Lowell Putnam

Catharine was too high-minded to bear Griffith any grudge; but she colored a little, and said she was averse to come to him a penniless bride.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The prelates abandoned the sick chamber, and left a simple curé of the chapel to take their place; the lords in waiting and other officers shrunk from the duties of their office, and with their eyes fixed on a time-piece eagerly awaited the hour which should free them from it.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

The decisive blow will be delivered by the General Reserve, which will be secretly concentrated and launched as secretly as possible; and the commander of the whole force will so distribute his troops that about half his available force can be kept in hand for this decisive blow, on a part of the enemy's front if sufficient penetration has been effected, or on a flank.
— from Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 by Anonymous

[r]; where, though the Saxons seem to have obtained the victory, they suffered so considerable a loss, as somewhat retarded the progress of their conquests.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

The oblivion was still complete, as long as six months after the treatment, and there seems no reason to suppose that the patient’s condition will change.
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"Theresa Guiccioli," says Castelar, "appears like a star on the stormy horizon of the poet's life."
— from Byron by John Nichol