They are seen chiefly at night, frequenting forests and fountains, and like all fairies disappear at or before cock-crow.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Again, figures in the form of men supporting mutules or coronae, we term "telamones"—the reasons why or wherefore they are so called are not found in any story—but the Greeks name them ἁτλανες.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

I have to praise,” she cried, “and not forgive: To do his will should be thy noblest praise; As Vishṇu ever Indra's will obeys.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

there, hence Ach, n. f. a fluid liquid; a stem Achles, n. f. succour, refuge, defence; manure Achlesawl, a. succouring Achlesiad, n. m. a succouring Achlesu, v. to succour, to cherish Achleswr, n. m. succourer Achlesydd, n. m. succourer Achlud, n. m. covert, obscurity Achlwm, v. to knot, to tie Achlysur, n. m. cause, motive; occasion, opportunity Achlysuro, v. to occasion Achlysurol, a. occasional Achlyw, n. m. a hearing Achos, n. m. cause Achosadwy, a. effectible Achosedig, a. endued with a cause Achosedigol, a. effectuative Achosi, v. to cause, to occasion Achosiad, n. m. a causing Achosol, a. efficient; effectual Achosoldeb, n. m. effectiveness Achref, a. suppliant, craving Achres, n. f. a row, a rank Achretawr, n. m. a creditor Achreth, n. m. a trembling Achrwm, a. crooked or bent Achrwym, n. m. a restraint Achryf, a. strong, potent, powerful, able Achub, v. to save, to secure Achubadwy, a. salvable Achubiad, n. m. a saving Achubiaeth, n. m. a securing Achubol, a. saving; delivering Achubwr, n. m. a saviour Achudd, n. m. seclusion Achul, a. narrow; lean; squalid Achwaith, n. m. sourness Achwaneg, a. more, additional Achwanegiad, n. m. augmentation, addition Achwanegol, a. augmentative Achwanegu, v. to increase Achwlwm, n. m. a tie Achwr, n. m. genealogist Achwre, n. m. a shelter, a skreen Achwy, a. tending to be foremost, busy-body Achwyn, n. m. complaint: v. to complain Achwynedig, a. being complained Achwynedigaeth, n. m. accusation, charge Achwynedigol, a. accusatory Achwynol, a. plaintive Achwyngar, a. querulous Achwyngarwch, n. m. querulousness Achwyniad, n. m. a complaining Achwyniaeth, n. m. accusation Achwynwr, n. m. a complainer Ad, a. a going on, over, or to.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Our friend Mr. Tulliver had a good-natured fibre in him, and did not like to give harsh refusals even to his sister, who had not only come in to the world in that superfluous way characteristic of sisters, creating a necessity for mortgages, but had quite thrown herself away in marriage, and had crowned her mistakes by having an eighth baby.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In Thames street, on the Thames side, west from Downegate, is Greenewich lane, of old time so called, and now Frier lane, of such a sign there set up.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I confine this definition to the merely sensible qualities of things, for the sake of preserving the utmost simplicity in a subject, which must always distract us whenever we take in those various causes of sympathy which attach us to any persons or things from secondary considerations, and not from the direct force which they have merely on being viewed.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Athos, after making sure that Lord Winter was really dead, let fall the corpse and said: “Come, Aramis, now for the honor of France!”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Save in the small cupola, this tower has the perfect air, and almost the details, of a tower of the eleventh century: three ranges of windows with mid-wall shafts rise over one another; only they are grouped under containing arches in 243 what in England we should call a Norman fashion.
— from Sketches from the Subject and Neighbour Lands of Venice by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

You see the name of the one aunt was Freda, and the name of the other was Bella, so what more natural than that baby’s papa should compound a name for her between the two, and call her Fredabel.
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

Six new counties were created during this period: Wythe (formed from Montgomery County with later additions from Montgomery and Grayson Counties and named in honor of George Wythe, a Virginia signer of the Declaration of Independence, a famous lawyer and the first Professor of Law in the United States), Mathews (formed from Gloucester County and named for Major Thomas Mathews of the Revolutionary War), Bath (formed from Augusta, Botetourt and Greenbrier Counties and named because of the medicinal springs located in the area), Grayson (formed from Wythe County and, later, additions from Patrick County and named for Colonel William Grayson, a United States Senator from Virginia), Lee (formed from Russell County and, later, additions from Scott County and named for General Henry Lee, Governor of Virginia, as well as an outstanding military leader), and Madison (formed from Culpeper County and named for James Madison, a state legislator and member of the United States House of Representatives during this period).
— from Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia by Dorothy Margaret Torpey

They had, too, a majority of the Supreme Court, and now for the first time the court came forward with its view of the question.
— from Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown

By law the Roman governor was bound to keep the public roads clear and to have the robbers who were caught, if they were slaves, crucified; and naturally, for slavery is not possible without a reign of terror.
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen