But he could not attend to his work, and after striving to master the subject on which he was engaged gave it up in despair, and went to bed as the first streak of dawn stole in through the eastern window.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

To clear the matter up, I declare now that I did have recourse to his assistance, and that I paid him six roubles for it.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The capitals having been finished and set up in due proportion to the columns (not exactly level on the columns, however, but with the same measured adjustment, so that in the upper members there may be an increase corresponding to that which was made in the stylobates), the rule for the architraves is to be as follows.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Furthermore, we have laws regulating warfare, and fidelity to an oath must often be observed in dealings with an enemy: for an oath sworn with the clear understanding in one's own mind that it should be performed must be kept; but if there is no such understanding, it does not count as perjury if one does not perform the vow.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

↑ 24 The four classes are not absolute, for the same adverb may be used in different senses and thus belong to different classes.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No," said the uncle, "I did not think it was lovely at all.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

enough Digonedd, n. abundance Digoni, v. to suffice, to satisfy Digoniant, n. prevalency Digonoi, a. sufficient; sated Digonoldeb, n. abundance Digonoli, v. to satiate Digor, n. habit; passion Digorffori, v. to disembody Digosp, a. unpunished Digost, a. without expense Digraff, a. not keen Digraid, a. impassionate Digrain, n. error: a wandering Digrawn, a. unaccumulated Digred, a. unbelieving, infidel Digreulon, a. not cruel Digribddail, a. without extortion Digrif, a. amusing, jocose Digrifâu, v. to amuse, to please Digrifedd, n. pleasantry Digrifwch, n. amusement Digrintach, a. not miserly Digroen, a. having no skin Digroniad, a. unbounded Digrybwyll, a. not alluded to Digrych, a. unwrinkled Digryn, a. without trembling Digryno, a. incompact, untidy Digu, a. not affectionate Digudd, a. unconcealed Digus, a. displeasing Digwl, a. blameless, faultless Digwsg, a. sleepless Digwydd, a. without lapse Digydwybod, a. unconscionable Digyfaill, a. friendless Digyfanedd, a. not domestic Digyfarwydd, a uninformed Digyfieuo, v. to disjoin Digyfludd, a. unimpeded Digyfnerth, a. helpless Digyfnewid, a. unchangeable Digyfoeth, a without wealth Digyfraid, wanting necessaries Digyfraith, a. lawless Digyfran, a. unparticipated Digyfrif, a. of no account Digyfrwng, a. not intervening Digyfrwydd, a. unpropitious Digyfwng, a. close, immediate Digyfyng, a. unconfined Digyffelyb, a. dissimilar, unparallelled Digyffro, a. undisturbed Digyngor, a. void of council Digyngwedd, a. unassimilating Digyngyd, a. inconsiderate Digymal, a. jointless Digymeriad, a. of no estimation Digymhar, a. matchless Digymhell, a. unconstrained Digymhorth, a. helpless Digymhwyll, a. irrational Digymwl, a. cloudless Digymysg, a. uncompounded Digynaliaeth, a. without support or maintenance Digynedd, a. without virtue Digynhen, a. not discordant Digynhwrf, a. unagitated Digyniwair
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

At every rise Holmes looked eagerly round him, but the shadows were thick upon the moor, and nothing moved upon its dreary face.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Can we hope by the aid of this contemporary of Map’s to arrive at a conclusion which may assist us in determining the real nature of his contribution to the development of this famous cycle, and will the ascertaining of this fact help us, as the definite establishment of a single fact often does, to solve other problems closely connected therewith?
— from The Three Days' Tournament: A Study in Romance and Folk-Lore Being an Appendix to the Author's 'Legend of Sir Lancelot' by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

Tell me, I pray, what cause thou dost uphold In doing now the basest deed of all, Chambered with the blood-guilty, with whose aid Thou slewest our father in that day.
— from The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Walls were toppling into the street, great billows of flame surged into the air, and the fire began pressing through street after street until it destroyed Trinity Church and threatened the Old South.
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

It follows, therefore, that many chemicals used in dyeing have only a transitory use, and are washed away completely—such as oil of vitriol, much used in woolen dyeing—and that of others only a very minute quantity is finally left on the cloth, as is the case in antimony and arsenic in cotton dyeing and printing.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885 by Various

"You see, O King, what is now preached to us; I declare to you most truly, what I have most certainly experienced, that the religion which we have hitherto professed, contains no virtue at all, nor no utility.
— from History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the Earliest Period to the Norman Conquest Second Edition by Thomas Miller

12 ‘I say, look here,’ he began, giving himself a shake as if to get rid of an unpleasant impression; ‘don’t be so jolly blue, all of you!
— from The Youngest Girl in the School by Evelyn Sharp

Jimmy says they looked everywhere for the algebra book, but couldn't find it, and they were just giving up in despair when they heard Jimmy's bloodhound wrestling with something in his kennel, and there it was.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 by Various

And it did raise its head, and, though it spoke with some little fear at first, soon discarded every relic of it; went about the land uttering its damnation cry, gathering around it—and for doing so many thanks to it—the favourers of priestcraft who lurked within the walls of the Church of England; frightening with the loudness of its voice the weak, the timid, and the ailing; perpetrating, whenever it had an opportunity, that species of crime to which it has ever been most partial— Deathbed robbery ; for as it is cruel, so is it dastardly.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow