To me he seems now all sacred, his locks are inaccessible, and, Lucy, I feel a sort of fear, when I look at his firm, marble chin, at his straight Greek features.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And when Lælius had intimated his approbation of this course, Scipio continued: I shall not adopt, said he, in so clear and simple a manner that system of discussion which goes back to first principles; as learned men often do in this sort of discussion, so as to go back to the first meeting of male and female, and then to the first birth and formation of the first family, and define over and over again what there is in words, and in how many manners each thing is stated.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘It was a little cottage, you may suppose,’ he said, presently, ‘but she found space for Em’ly in it,—her husband was away at sea,—and she kep it secret, and prevailed upon such neighbours as she had (they was not many near) to keep it secret too.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

She had said nothing, and she had gone away again before there was time to speak to her, or even to notice who she was.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

a. workmanlike Saernïo, v. to work as a wright Saernïol, a. architectural Saerol, mechanical, of a wright Saeru, v. to work as a wright Saeth, n. an arrow, a dart Saethflew, n. coarse hairs in fur Saethiad, n. a shooting; ejection Saethol, a. shooting; ejecting Saethu, v. to shoot; to dart Saethydd, n. shooter, archer Saethyddiaeth, n. archery Saf, n. a fixed state; a stand Safadwy, a. able to stand, durable Safaeth, n. the act of standing Safedig, a. established, fixed Safedigol, a. having power to stand Safedd, n. fixed state, stationariness Safiad, n. a standing; stature Safiadol, a. stationary Safle, n. a standing place, a stand Safn, n. a jaw, a chop Safnaid, n. a chopful Safnol, a. relating to the jaw Safniad, n. a jawing, a mouthing Safnrwth, a. open jawed Safol, a. standing, stationary Safwyr, n. savour, odour Saffr, Saffrwm, or Saffrwn, n. saffron, crocus Saffwn, n. a beam, a shaft Saffwy, n. a pike, a lance Saffwyo, v. to use a pike Sag, n. a squeeze of the chops Sagied, v. to squeeze in the chops; to stifle Sang, n. a tread; a tramble Sangedigaeth, n. act of treading Sangu, v. to tread; to tramble Sai, n. what is still or at rest Saib, n. leisure; sedateness; quiet; sedate; studious Said, n. a haft: the part inserted in the hilt Saig, n. a mess, a meal Sail, n. a base, a foundation Saim, n. grease Sain, n. a sound, a tone Saith, a. seven Sal, n. a pass; a plight; a cast off; frail; poor; ill Salaidd, a. somewhat frail or ill Salâu, v. to grow frail or ill Saldra, n. frailty; poorness; illness Salw, a. despicable, vile, sorry; ugly Salwâu, v. to grow despicable Salwder, n. frailty; vileness Salwineb, n. contemptibleness Sallt, n. an exterior state Salltiad, n. a going out; a sallying Salltring, n. snuffers San, n. a maze: a. wary Sanedigaeth, n. amazement Sant, n. a saint Santaidd, a. holy Santeiddiad, n. sanctification Santeiddio, v. to sanctify Santeiddiol, a. sanctified Santeiddrwydd, n. holiness Santes, n. a female saint Santolaeth, n. sanctitude Sanu, v. to gaze, to amaze Sar, n. rage; insult, offence Sarâd, n. an insulting Saraol, a. insulting, abusive Sarâed, n. affront, reproach Sarâu, v. to insult, to affront Sarâus, a. insulting, offensive Sarâusrwydd, n. offensiveness Sarch, n. piece of harness Sarchu, v. to cover, to harness Sardio, v. to rebuff, to chide Sardiol, a. rebuking, chiding Sardd, n. what is recumbent Sarddan, n. a creeping thing Sarff, n. a serpent Sarffol, a. like a serpent Sarffwydd, n. service trees Sarid, n. an overplus Sarn, n. a causeway; a paving Sarnu, v. to strew; to lay a path Sarth, n. reptile; scorpion; hedgehog; sarcasm Sarthu, v. to creep along Sarug, a. surly, stern, dogged Sarugedd, Sarugrwydd, n. surliness Sarugo, v. to grow surly Sarugyn, n. a surly fellow Satan, n. adversary Sathr, n. a trampling Sathredig, a trodden, trampled Sathru, v. to tread, to trample Saw, n. what hems in; a stop Sawch, n. a heap, a load Sawd, n. drift, plight, verge; a siege Sawdio, v. to tend, to verge Sawdl, n. a heel Sawdrio, v. to join; to solder Sawdwr, n. borderer; soldier Sawdwriaeth, n. soldiership Sawdwriol, a. soldierly Sawdd, n. depth; a sink; a plunge; a root; power Sawell, n. a smoke hole, a chimney Sawf, n. what stops or stands Sawl, a. many; such Sawyr, n. savour, taste; odour Sawyrio, v. to savour Sawyrus, a. savory; odorous Se, n. what is fixed; a star: adv.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that, except in some unusual circumstances or by an effort of voluntary abstraction, he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body; and this association is riveted more and more, as mankind are further removed from the state of savage independence.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

She was still naked, and seating herself beside me on an ottoman she asked me how I had enjoyed the spectacle.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And so one night at the end of November, one snowy night, after she had been in bed the whole day, she told me to send for the cure.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

They have served not as slaves hoping for reward, but as gods who would take no reward.
— from The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches by David Starr Jordan

Yet perhaps it might have been wished that so noble a song had not been marred by any touch of social bitterness.
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp

Since he could say nothing and she had nothing to say, the pair of them stood hand-clasped, smiling, dim-eyed and red in the face, like two glad children—Amilcare, anxious mothering hen, clucking about them.
— from Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Hewlett

Feeling sensations like those of a starved wolf, Francisco merely smiled, nodded, and shook hands with the sailor, and then, seizing the remains of the loaf and the pork,—“wild-boar,” or “lion,” pie, commenced with infinite gusto to his unexpected meal.
— from The Pirate City: An Algerine Tale by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The Emperor, exiled at St. Helena, could indeed give his story; but, unable, as he was, to verify or correct his narrative by citations from the orders that were given at the time, and by conferring iv with the officers who had served under him, he has left us an account, which, though by no means without historical value, is yet so defective and erroneous in parts that it has aroused in the minds of men who are not alive to the great difficulties which always attend the composition of a military narrative, and who are not concerned to make fair allowance for the unavoidable and peculiar difficulties of one writing in the circumstances which surrounded Napoleon at St. Helena, grave doubts as to the trustworthiness of his recollection and even as to his veracity.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

She burst out laughing, 'Lord's sake, fool, why, your girl would be sixty now an she had lived.'
— from Bébée; Or, Two Little Wooden Shoes by Ouida