Later on the air became clearer, but the storm swept over the perturbed sea with undiminished fury; the fisher folks had long since gone to bed, but in such weather there was no chance of closing an eye.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The Karens suppose that a being called the tso resides in the upper part of the head, and while it retains its seat no harm can befall the person from the efforts of the seven Kelahs, or personified passions.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

But that, as Bels cal'd thee to Church before, So this, to the Triumphant Church, calls thee.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

As soon as the copper and the sand grow hot and unite under the intensity of the fire, they mutually receive each other's sweat, relinquishing their peculiar qualities, and having lost their properties through the intensity of the fire, they are reduced to a blue colour.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

He would belong to a brainless club, and his wife would give brainless dinner parties.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“No,” said the niece, “there is no reason for showing mercy to any of them; they have every one of them done mischief; better fling them out of the window into the court and make a pile of them and set fire to them; or else carry them into the yard, and there a bonfire can be made without the smoke giving any annoyance.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

sooner than; a. prefix denoting priority: n. wedge; chisel Cyna, v. to follow dogs Cynaber, n. head of a stream Cynach, n. seeding plant Cynâig, a. apt to follow dogs Cynallu, n. first power Cynamser, n. antiquity Cynamserol, a. primitive Cynan, n. faculty of speech Cynaniad, n. enunication Cynanu, v. to prelate Cynarch, n. primary request Cynarchwaeth, n. foretaste Cynarddelwi, v. to affirm beforehand Cynarfaeth, n. permeditation Cynarfaethu, v. to premeditate Cynarfer, n. original usuage Cynarparu, v. to predispose Cynauaf, n. autumn, harvest Cynauafa, v. to harvest Cynauafu, v. to gather a harvest Cynbechod, n. original sin Cynblant, n. first born Cynbrawf, n. rudiment Cynbryd, n. prototype Cynbwyll, n. forethought Cyndad, n. patriarch Cyndardd, n. first issue Cyndawd, n. antecedence Cyndeyrn, n. chief Cyndwf, n. first growth Cyndy, n. dog house Cyndyn, a. stubborn, perverse Cyndynrwydd, n. stubborness Cynddail, n. the first leaves Cynddangosiad, n. premonstraiting Cynddarbodi, v. to pre-conceive Cynddarbodaeth, n. preconception Cynddaredd, n. madness Cynddawd, n. preposition Cynddeall, v. to pre-conceive Cynddeddf, n. instinct Cynddefawd, n. precept Cynddefnydd, n. original matter Cynddeiriog, a. mad; furious Cynddeiriogi, v. to madden Cynddelw, n. archetype Cynddethol, v. to pre-elect Cynddirnad, n. pre-surmise Cynddodiad, n. preposition Cynddosbarth, n. premonstration Cynddrych, n. object Cynddrychiolydd, n. a representative Cynddyrchiol, a. present Cynddrygedd, n. mischief Cynddull, n. first form Cynddulliad, n. prefiguration Cynddydd, n. break of day Cynêica, n. to go after dogs Cynell, n. dog kennel Cynenid, a. primogeneal Cynenidedd, n. primogeniture Cynenw, n. christian name Cynenwad, n. prenomination Cynesgor, n. first delivery Cynethol, v. to pre-elect Cynfab, n. first born, male Cynfam, n. first mother Cynfardd, n. primitive bard Cynfas, n. sheet of cloth, to bed sheet Cynfebyd, n. early infacy Cynfedydd, n. first baptism Cynfedd, n. original bias Cynfeddiant, n. pre-occupation Cynflas, n. foretaste Cynflith, n. firstmilk Cynfod, n. pre-existence Cynfodol, a. pre-existent Cynfraint, n. prerogative Cynfrith, a. of variegated front Cynfro, n. a first country Cynfrodor, n. an aborigine Cynfrwydr, n. front of battle Cynfyd, n. antidiluvian world Cynfyl, n. native place Cynffon, n. tail, rump Cynffonog, a. having a tail Cynffoni, to form a tail, to cringe Cynffrwyth, n. first fruit Cynhaid, n. first swarm Cynhanfod, n. pre-existence Cynhasedd, n. a mutual bond Cynhebrwng, n. funeral Cynhebyg, a. alike, similar Cynhebygol, a. comparative Cynhebygu, v. to compare Cynhefyg, n. principal Cynhefin, n. growth of a year Cynhen, n. contention, strife Cynhenid, a. inbred, natural Cynhenllyd, a. quarrelsome Cynhenhol, a. contentions Cynhenu, v. to contend, to quarrel Cynhenus, a. contentious Cynhes, a. warm; cheering Cynhesiad, n. a warming Cynhesrwydd, n. warmth Cynhesu, v. to warm Cynhordŷ, n. court house Cynhwrf, n. commotion: trouble; disturbance Cynhyrfiad, n. an agitating Cynhyrfu, to move, to convulse Cynhyrfwr, n. an agitator Cyni, n. anguish, anxiety Cyniad, n. principal Cyniant, n. priority Cynio, v. to wedge; to chizel Cynllaeth, n. first milk Cynllaith, n. humidity Cynlliw, n. first colour Cynllog, n. common interest Cynllun, n. pattern, model Cynllunio, v. to model Cynlluniwr, n. a modeller Cynllwyn, n. waylaying Cynllwyno, v. to waylay Cynllwynwr, n. lurker Cynnadledd, n. colloquy Cynnadliad, n. a conversing Cynnadl, n. intercourse Cynnadlu, v. to intercourse Cynnal, v. to sustain, to bear Cynnaliad, n. support Cynnaliaeth, n. maintenance Cynnaliwr, n. supporter Cynnar, a. early, timely, soon Cynnaru, v. to be early Cynnarwch, n. earliness Cynau, ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

'Tis true, I may have made professions of friendship, while I looked upon you as a person of honour and good morals; but now that you are convicted of such a flagrant violation of the laws of that kingdom where you have been treated with such hospitality and respect, I think myself fully absolved from any such conditional promise, which indeed is never interpreted into any other than a bare compliment.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Then a butterfly came and sat on a cluster of heliotrope and waved his crimson-banded wings in the hot sunshine.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Although the volume (edited by his son, Rev. J.F. Yokoi) of his Life and Letters shows him to have been an intense and at times almost bigoted Confucianist, he, in one of his later letters, prophesied that when Christianity {438} should be taught by the missionaries, it would win the hearts of the young men of Japan.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

When Harky was opposite the pool where Precious Sue had jumped the almost black coon, he turned at right angles.
— from The Duck-footed Hound by Jim Kjelgaard

Robert has suffered from the prevailing malady, which did not however, through the precautions we took, touch his throat or chest, amounting only to a bad cold in the head.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A graceful shrub, or small tree, six to fifteen feet tall, the slender trunk and branches covered with dull yellowish-green bark and the bright green foliage setting off the feathery flower clusters, two to six inches long, scattered lightly over the bush and composed of innumerable, tiny, sweet-scented blossoms.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

I am not accusing him of any real inconsistency in thus alternating between conservative and revolutionary dogmas.
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

Never lounge on a sofa, while there are those in the room, whose years give them a better claim to this sort of indulgence.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Two waltzes he played—and then, in the middle of a favorite two-step, a mandolin string snapped with a sharp twang, and Bud came as close to swearing as a well-behaved young man may come in the presence of a lady.
— from Cow-Country by B. M. Bower

I humbly thought that not to pay more than was necessary was the A B C of commerce.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

For you confess that there are such things as born criminals, and in your own phrase it seems that Lecœur was only partially responsible for his acts, through a congenital predisposition to crime.”
— from The Wicker Work Woman: A Chronicle of Our Own Times by Anatole France

The former elected Sir Audley Mervyn their Speaker, and the able but curiously intricate and quaint discourses of the ancient colleague of Kelly and Darcy in the assertion of Irish legislative independence, shows how different was the spirit of Irish Protestantism in 1661 as compared with 1641.
— from A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2 by Thomas D'Arcy McGee