College, Cumberland; to JAPAN , in this Slang speech, is to ordain; MORTAR-BOARD is a square college cap; SIM a student of a Methodistical turn,—in allusion to the Rev. Charles Simeon; SLOGGERS , at Cambridge, refers to the second division of race boats, known at Oxford as TORPIDS ; SPORT is to show or exhibit; TROTTER is the jocose term for a tailor’s man who goes round for orders; and TUFTS are wealthy students who dine with the DONS , and are distinguished by golden tufts , or tassels, in their caps.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

SYN: Construct, compile, soothe, allay, calm, put together, constitute, draw up, frame, form, pacify, mitigate, settle, adjust, write.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

You object, again, that she cannot comfortably stop and rest in London, on her way here, because she cannot comfortably go alone to a public hotel where she is a total stranger.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connexions can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connexion can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

sudden, C2, C3; sodeynly , adv.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Here and there stood sharp peaks, lean spires that rose as high as 200 feet; farther off, a succession of steeply cut cliffs sporting a grayish tint, huge mirrors that reflected the sparse rays of a sun half drowned in mist.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I stopped before leaving Knowlesbury and bought a stout country cudgel, short, and heavy at the head.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Jerrie's strong constitution could stand an attack much more severe than this one; and prescribing perfect quiet, with strict orders that she should see no more people than was necessary, he left, promising to return in the afternoon, when he hoped to find her better.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

This little, flat earth has expanded into a great globe, spinning through space fifty times faster than a bullet from a rifle; and the blue vault of [Pg 296] heaven that to them was the end of the universe and a crystal wall to keep back the waters, has opened out, lifted up, and broadened to an infinity of space containing countless suns and worlds.
— from The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by Geo. W. (George Woodward) Warder

The butler was taxed for a contribution; all who had an article to spare gave heartily, and the Monk was, after some ingenuity, equipped in the following fashion: A pair of very light shoes, fitting badly and pinching sorely, a pair of short coloured pantaloons, a great pilot overcoat, a Scotch cap, cut so as to make it fit his head, formed the cap-à-pie of Father Ignatius.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

What substance could cause such a change in the resulting offspring after having been transferred to the egg or sperm-cell?
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

Abergarwed Colliery Company, Port Tennant, agent, James Allen Birch Grove Coal Company, Ferryside Cwm Bach Colliery Company, agent, Elias Jones Cwm Capple Coal Company, Strand, agent, Thomas Dryden Garth Colliery Company, agent, Thomas Edward, Strand Gorse Colliery Company, agent, J. Glassbrook, Strand Graigola Coal Company, agent, Charles Moore, Upper Strand Warlich’s Patent Fuel Company, Sydney Hall, manager * James and Aubrey, Strand, agent, J. Slocombe Lucas, F. E., 29, Singleton street Lyon’s Patent Fuel Company, Port tennant Morgan, David, Willow Tree Yard Mynydd Bach y Glo Colliery Company, High street, agent, W. P. Struve Neath Abbey Coal Company, agent, G. Bonville, Mount street Penrose and Starbuck, Port tennant Resolven Coal Company, Port tennant Swansea Coal Company, shipping agent, J. E., Morrice, 4, Mount street Weig Fach Colliery Company, agent, William Gregor, Strand Confectioners & Pastrycooks.
— from Pearse's Commercial Directory to Swansea and the Neighbourhood, for 1854 by Ebenezer Pearse

Portugal seizing record amounts of Latin American cocaine destined for Europe; a European gateway for Southwest Asian heroin; transshipment point for hashish from North Africa to Europe; consumer of Southwest Asian heroin Romania major transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin transiting the Balkan route and small amounts of Latin American cocaine bound for Western Europe; although not a significant financial center, role as a narcotics conduit leaves it vulnerable to laundering, which occurs via the banking system, currency exchange houses, and casinos Russia limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; major consumer of opiates Saint Kitts and Nevis transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; some money-laundering activity Saint Lucia transit point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe Saint Vincent and the Grenadines transshipment point for South American drugs destined for the US and Europe; small-scale cannabis cultivation Saudi Arabia death penalty for traffickers; improving anti-money-laundering legislation and enforcement
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency