On the other hand, I compared the disquisitions of the ancient moralists to very towering and magnificent palaces with no better foundation than sand and mud: they laud the virtues very highly, and exhibit them as estimable far above anything on earth; but they give us no adequate criterion of virtue, and frequently that which they designate with so fine a name is but apathy, or pride, or despair, or parricide.
— from Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One's Reason and of Seeking Truth in the Sciences by René Descartes

I have looked after the wild stock of the town, which give a faithful herdsman a good deal of trouble by leaping fences; and I have had an eye to the unfrequented nooks and corners of the farm; though I did not always know whether Jonas or Solomon worked in a particular field to-day; that was none of my business.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

The masters of life, on the contrary, the first framers and discoverers of moral ideals, are persons who disregard those worn conventions and their professional interpreters: they are persons who have a fresh sense for the universal need and cry of human souls, and reconstruct the world of duty to make it fit better with the world of desire and of possible happiness.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

sikápat (from upat ) n a coin of Spanish times originally worth a quarter of a peso, but ten centavos in the 1900’s.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

(of place) around, about, at, upon, near, along , † Chr : (of time)
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

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

The tents were put up near a clump of trees, where there was a well.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

With this dying charge, he gave up the ghost, leaving us nephew and crew overwhelmed with grief and consternation.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

Kellermann, François Christophe , Duke of Valmy, French general born in Alsace, son of a peasant; entered the army at 17; served in the Seven Years' War; embraced the Revolution; defeated the Duke of Brunswick at Valmy in 1792; served under Napoleon as commander of the reserves on the Rhine, but supported the Bourbons at the Restoration (1735-1820).
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

We stripped Wake of his Red Cross uniform, now a collection of sopping rags, and got him between blankets with a huge earthenware bottle of hot water at his feet.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

He educates us, not as children or slaves, but as free men, as moral agents.
— from The Water of Life, and Other Sermons by Charles Kingsley

That was where the famous canvas sign had been, rolled up now and carted off with the coffee-urn to this other "city" that had depopulated Baker City.
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

But I am a man not of fiction, but of fact, and consequently relate events, not as they precisely ought, but as they do, occasionally occur in lawyers' offices, and other unpoetical nooks and corners of this prosaic, matter-of-fact, working-day world.
— from The Experiences of a Barrister, and Confessions of an Attorney by Samuel Warren

She commands the results of our labor to that extent, and gives us not a cent of the results of her labor in return—for her principal loaned represents her labor, and that we return to her intact.
— from Cannibals all! or, Slaves without masters by George Fitzhugh