The other dissentient was a young child, who squalled at the fullest stretch of his lungs, and babbled some unintelligible nonsense about a pumpkin.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

My aunt did not go to see the pink hawthorn in the hedge, but at all hours of the day I would ask the rest of my family whether she was not going to go, whether she used not, at one time, to go often to Tansonville, trying to make them speak of Mlle.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

A sick stomach induces scepticism unbelief, nightmares and the desire for death.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Humag pangíhì, nangulíhad siya ug nanglup-ad, After urinating he loosened his phlegm and spat out.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

He seemed under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these treacherous demons, depended on a hair; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

above: adv. above Ud, n. a howl, a yell; a blast Udfa, n. a howling, a yelling Udgan, n. a sound of a trumpet Udganiad, n. the act of sounding a trumpet Udganu, v. to sound a trumpet Udgorn, n. a trumpet Udiad, n. a howling, a yelling Udlef, n. a howling voice Udo, v. to howl, to yell Udol, a. howling, yelling Udon, n. a solemn cry Udoniad, n. an imprecation Udoniaeth, n. imprecation Udd, n. what is over; a chief Uf, n. what is over or spread Ufelai, n. oxygen Ufelier, n. what flames out Ufelu, v. to generate fire Ufelyddiad, n. ignition Ufell, a humble, obsequous Ufudd, a. humble, obedient Ufudd-dod, n. obedience Ufuddgar, a. obsequous, meek Ufuddâd, n. humiliation Ufuddâu, v. to obey, to be humble Ufuddoldeb, n. humbleness Uffarn, n. the ankle Uffern, n. hell, hades Uffernol, a. infernal, hellish Ug, n. what is enveloping Ugain, Ugaint, a twenty Ugeinfed, a. twentieth Ugeinplyg, a. twenty-fold Ul, n. what is humid; closeness, a. damp; close, muggy Ulai, a. hydrogen Uliad, n. a making damp; a growing muggy Uliar, n. a plegmatic habit Ulo, v. to damp; to smother; to become close or muggy; to heat with dampness Ulw, Ulwyn, n. ashes, cinders Ull, n. what is abrupt or quick Ullda, n. a crazy one, a fickle one, an oaf Ulliad, n. a sudden driving Un, n. an individual, one: a. one; identical, same Unad, n. a making one, union Unarbymtheg, a. sixteen Unarddeg, a. eleven Unben, Unbeniad, n. a monarch: sir Unbenaethol, Unbenol, a. monarchical Unbriodas, n. monogamy Uncorn, n. the unicorn Undad, a. of the same father Undeb, n. unity; concord Undeg, a. eleven
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

his sitting up night after night alone, suffering nobody to come to them, and all the day too, casting off Pickering, basely reproaching him with his small estate, which yet is a good one, and other poor courses to obtain privacy beneath his honour, and with his carrying her abroad and playing on his lute under her window, and forty other poor sordid things, which I am grieved to hear; but believe it to no purpose for me to meddle with it, but let him go on till God Almighty and his own conscience and thoughts of his lady and family do it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Bellum ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud nisi pax quæsita videatur —War should be so undertaken that nothing but peace may seem to be aimed at.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This morning “Sweetie Bob,” the errand-boy, had arrived crying, with tidings that the shop and house were shut up; nobody answered his knock; Mother Butterfly had “cut” in the night, gone off, he believed, with the circus, and Miss Lydia too; and there was two-and-ninepence owing to him, besides his—his—his character!
— from The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Not merely in the portion now specially under notice are there cold and savage wastes such as laugh the plough to scorn.
— from Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

Neither the Soviet Union nor any other nation will have reason to question our will to sustain the strongest and most flexible defense forces.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Jimmy Carter

Chardon went back uncomplainingly to her old occupation, sitting up night after night, and bringing home her wages at the end of the week.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"Suppose they had started using needlers and blasters and antigravity and nuclear-energy around here.
— from Temple Trouble by H. Beam Piper

We saw upon nearer approach that the pool or lake was fed by a winding river, upon an island of which the house was built, so that it was entirely surrounded by water, which a mediæval drawbridge spanned.
— from The Great White Army by Max Pemberton

We cut off all the lower rough leaves, leaving the rich-coloured head or centre, which in all weathers will be found to stand up neat and trim, even in bright frosty weather.
— from The Subtropical Garden; or, beauty of form in the flower garden. by W. (William) Robinson

Matter is a substrate (or subject) underlying nature, as thought Aristotle, 278 and a residence for forms.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 1 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus