FULL-SIZE -- Medium-Size So promis'd hee, and Uriel to his charge Returnd on that bright beam, whose point now raisd 590 Bore him slope downward to the Sun now fall'n Beneath th' Azores; whither the prime Orb, Incredible how swift, had thither rowl'd Diurnal, or this less volubil Earth By shorter flight to th' East, had left him there Arraying with reflected Purple and Gold The Clouds that on his Western Throne attend: Now came still Eevning on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober Liverie all things clad; Silence accompanied, for Beast and Bird, 600 They to thir grassie Couch, these to thir Nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful Nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the Firmament With living Saphirs:
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Standing there and watching their play, I was told that during the fierce storms of winter it happened that this sea, now so calm, rose in rage and beat down, broke over the bluff, sweeping all before it.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

that is to say; namely Sefnig, n. the gullet, the swallow Sefyd, v. to stand; to stop still Sefydledig, a. stationed, settled, established Sefydliad, n. an establishing Sefydlog, a. standing; stationary Sefydlu, v. to establish, to settle Sefydlyn, n. stagnant water Sefyll, n. a standing, a position: v. to stand; to stop Sefyllfa, n. a standing place Sefyllfod, n. station, situation Sefylliad, n. stationing Sefyllian, v. to stand often, to loiter Sefylliant, n. a stationing Sefyllio, v. to station Sefylliog, a. apt to stand Segan, n. a covering, a cloak Segiad, n. an enveloping Segru, v. to secrete, to put a part Segur, a. untroubled; idle Segura, v. to idle, to loiter Segurdod, n. leisure; idleness Seguriad, n. a taking leisure Segurllyd, a. apt to take leisure Seguryd, n. leisure, idleness Sengi, v. to tread, to trample Seibiad, n. a standing at leisure Seibiant, n. leisure, respite Seigen, n. a little mess, a meal Seigio, v. to take a mess Seigwr, n. a messer Seilddar, n. a main beam Seilddor, n. a threshold, a sill Seiler, n. a basement, a cellar Seilfaen, n. foundation stone Seiliant, n. a foundation Seilio, v. to lay a foundation Seiliog, a. having a foundation Seilwaith, n. ground-work Seilydd, n. a founder Seimio, v. to grease over Seimiol, a. of a greasy quality Seimlyd, a. of a greasy quality Seinfawr, a. sonorous, loud Seinglawr, n. sounding board Seiniad, n. a sounding; accent Seiniant, n. a making a sound Seinio, v. to sound, to resound Seiniol, a. sounding; toned Seintio, v. to canonise Seintiol, a. hallowed; saintly Seintiolaeth, n. sanctitude Seirch, n. equipage; harness Seirchio, v. to harness Seirian, a. sparkling, glittering Seirianad, n. a sparkling Seirianu, v. to sparkle Seithdant, n. a heptachord Seithfed, a. seventh Seithongl, n. a septangle Seithug, a futile, fruitless Seithugiant, n. frustration Sel, n. espying; distant view sea Selder, n. keen-sightedness Seldremio, v. to range Seliad, n. an espying; perception Seliant, n. a perception Selsig, n. a pudding; a sausage Selu, v. to espy, to gaze Salw, n. a gaze, a beholding Sellt, n. a limit, a border Selltu, v. to explore, to seek Sen, n. a stigma, a taunt Senedd, n. a senate; synod Seneddol, a. senetorial Seneddu, v. to form a senate Seniad, n. a taunting; chiding Senol, a. taunting, scoffing Sensigl, n. a daisy Senu, v. to taunt; to chide Senw, n. a stigma; a reproach Senyllt, n. a seneschal Ser, n. bill, or bill-hook Sêr, n. stars Serch, n. regard, or love: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

“That thou shalt never know!”
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For the price of ten thousand marks, the republic purchased of the marquis of Montferrat the fertile Island of Crete or Candia, with the ruins of a hundred cities; 10 but its improvement was stinted by the proud and narrow spirit of an aristocracy; 11 and the wisest senators would confess that the sea, not the land, was the treasury of St. Mark.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

even this; that Shakespeare, no mere child of nature; no automaton of genius; no passive vehicle of inspiration, possessed by the spirit, not possessing it; first studied patiently, meditated deeply, understood minutely, till knowledge, become habitual and intuitive, wedded itself to his habitual feelings, and at length gave birth to that stupendous power, by which he stands alone, with no equal or second in his own class; to that power which seated him on one of the two glory-smitten summits of the poetic mountain, with Milton as his compeer not rival.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I saw through them sharply now.
— from A Thief in the Night: Further adventures of A. J. Raffles, Cricketer and Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

"Our first site in Egypt," he writes, "be it by larceny or be it by emption, will be the almost certain egg of a North African Empire that will grow and grow till another Victoria and another Albert, titles of the lake sources of the White Nile, will come within our borders, and till we finally join hands across the Equator with Natal and Cape Town, to say nothing of the Transvaal and the Orange River on the south or of Abyssinia or Zanzibar to be swallowed by way of viaticum on our journey—and then, with a great empire in each of the four quarters of the world ...
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

She had expected Thore that Saturday night, and when she heard what had taken place between him and her father, she sat down and had a good cry, saying to herself,— "If I cannot have Thore, there will never be another happy day for me in this world."
— from Arne; Early Tales and Sketches Patriots Edition by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The term 'great', therefore, is not the contrary of the term 'small', nor 'much' of 'little'.
— from The Categories by Aristotle

The cook spoke so earnestly, and seemed so disgusted over Harding’s escape, that the sergeant never thought to blame him for it.
— from Carl the Trailer by Harry Castlemon

That in transplanting trees we turn the best and largest roots towards the south, and consequently the most ample and spreading part of the head correspondent to the roots: For if there be a strong root on that quarter, and but a feeble attraction in the branches, this may not always counterpoise the weak roots on the north-side, damnified by the too puissant attraction of over large branches: This may also suggest a cause why trees flourish more on the south-side, and have their integument and coats thicker on those aspects annually, with divers other useful speculations, if in the mean time, they seem not rather to be puntillos over nice for a plain forester.
— from Sylva; Or, A Discourse of Forest Trees. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Evelyn

The resolution of the Owners read: That this Association thinks that deputies, like overmen, should be the agents of the masters, and that under these circumstances it is imperative that they should not be restricted by any Trades Union resolutions.
— from A History of the Durham Miner's Association 1870-1904 by John Wilson

Be advised what thou sayest, for, if thou wilt not goe in: we will so beat thee with one of these yron crowes, that thou shalt never goe out of this Church alive.
— from The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5) Containing an hundred pleasant Novels by Giovanni Boccaccio