Every form of prudence and suspicion had been grafted on a nature originally reluctant and cautious, with the result that it would have seemed hardly needful for Mrs. Gryce to extract his promise about the overshoes, so little likely was he to hazard himself abroad in the rain.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Sabrina fair Listen when thou art sitting 860 Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honour's sake, Goddess of the silver lake, Listen and save.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Admetus, king of Thessaly, when he lay upon his death-bed, was told by Apollo's Oracle, that if he could get anybody to die for him, he should live longer yet, but when all refused, his parents, etsi decrepiti , friends and followers forsook him, Alcestus, his wife, though young, most willingly undertook it; what more can be desired or expected?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Cómo se llamaba la fonda del competidor?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

SYN: Lustful, libidinous, lewd, lecherous, wanton.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Mr. Fothergill had ventured to say "I know some of the deep and latent causes why this fine country has so long languished in a state of comparative stupor and inactivity,
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

273 sprǣc (ē) f. language , Æ, Bo, Mt : power of ‘ speech ,’ Lcd, LL : statement, narrative, fable, discourse, conversation , Æ, Bl, CP, LPs : eloquence , Æ: report, rumour , Lk : decision, judgment : charge, suit , CP, PPs, TC : point, question : place for speaking , NG (ē).
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Adieu, my dearest Sir. LETTER LXVII - MR.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

“They have been up a good hour,” said Lord Loraine, “quite long enough for their decisions to be known in St James’s Street.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“Will you ask your sister to come to me, my dear, I would speak with her a moment?” said Lelland, laying his hand tenderly on her head.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 1, July 1849 by Various

Then he moved quickly to Jesus, who waited for him in silence, and he directed his straight, sharp look, like a knife, into His calm, darkened eyes.
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

It is, indeed, no wonder that legends and poetical fancies such as these should cluster round caves, for the gloom of their recesses, and the shrill drip of the water from the roof, or the roar of the subterranean water-falls echoing through the passages, and the white bosses of stalagmite looming like statues through the darkness, offer ample materials for the use of a vivid imagination.
— from Cave Hunting Researches on the evidence of caves respecting the early inhabitants of Europe by William Boyd Dawkins

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— from Willem Adriaan Van Der Stel, and Other Historical Sketches by George McCall Theal

The problem of what she looked like distracted attention for the moment from the problem of what she did and was.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Then she laughed a sad little laugh.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

O Long, Wesley, Maxwell O Longheed, Samuel, Molesworth O Longley, George C., Maitland N S Loranger, L. L. J., St. Sauveur Q Lord, Joseph, Leclercville Q Lord, Donald M., Newbridge, W.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

You work too hard, so that every little speck looks like a mountain.
— from The Iron Furrow by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd

All she knew was that she loved Luke: and all that she conveyed to him by that look, was just love.
— from The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness