This signifies to the passerby that it is a house of mourning so that the bell will not be rung unnecessarily nor long.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

“ Peste! let us not lose such an opportunity,” returned Monte Cristo.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He took a step forward, but could bear the uncertainty no longer and turned his head.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great streets of silence led away To neighborhoods of pause; Here was no notice, no dissent, No universe, no laws.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

above, over: adv. above Uchad, n. a rising over Uchaf, a. upmost, uppermost Uchafael, n. an ascension Uchafed, a. being over, upper Uchafedd, n. loftiness, height Uchafiad, n. a rising over Uchafiaeth, n. supremacy Uchanian, n. a superior nature Uchaniaeth, n. metapysics Uchanianol, a. supernatural Ucharn, n. the ankle Uchder, n. height, highness Uchediad, n. an elevating Uchedu, v. to elevate, to soar Uchedydd, n. a soarer; a lark Uchedd, n. loftiness, altitude; top Uchel, a. high, lofty, towering Uchelder, n. loftiness, elevation Ucheldrem, n. a haughty look Ucheldyb, n. high opinion Ucheledd, n. loftiness Uchelfa, n. a high place Uchelfaer, n. a high constable Uchelfal, n. the misletoe Uchelfryd, a. high-minded Ucheliad, n. a heightening Ucheliant, n. elevation Uchelraith, n. a grand jury Uchelryw, n. a superior kind Uchelsaf, n. a high standing Uchelsantaeth, n. a hierarchy Uchelu, v. to make high Uchelwr, n. a freeholder Uchelwyl, n. a high festival Uchelydd, n. a superior Uchellawr, n. the misletoe Uchenaid, n. a sigh Uchenidiad, n. a sighing Ucheneidio, v. to sigh Ucher, n. gloom; evening Ucherddo, n. evening tide Uchergyd, n. a lofty shock Uchelwyl, n. a vesper Uchiad, n. a heightening Ucho, prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

sed etiam legibus populorum, quibus in singulis civitatibus res publica continetur, eodem modo constitutum est, ut non liceat sui commodi causa nocere alteri; hoc enim spectant leges, hoc volunt, incolumem esse civium coniunctionem; quam qui dirimunt, eos morte, exsilio, vinclis, damno coërcent.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But, let us now leave the rough usage of the field, where vulgar coarseness and brutal cruelty spread themselves and flourish, rank as weeds in the tropics; where a vile wretch, in the shape of a man, rides, walks, or struts about, dealing blows, and leaving gashes on broken-spirited men and helpless women, for thirty dollars per month—a business so horrible, hardening and disgraceful, that, rather, than engage in it, a decent man would blow his own brains out—and let the reader view with me the equally wicked, but less repulsive aspects of slave life; where pride and pomp roll luxuriously at ease; where the toil of a thousand men supports a single family in easy idleness and sin.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

She frowned upon no lover when he made his first advances, but by and by when she was hopelessly enthralled, he learned from her own lips that she had formed a resolution never to marry.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

When a quotation from this editorial was brought to the attention of a professor in Cambridge University not long since, it seemed to him so incredible that he made "a special inquiry," and then felt safe in publishing a doubt of its authenticity.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

" He had piles of printed bags of different sizes ready for use, now lying around him.
— from Crowded Out o' Crofield; or, The Boy who made his Way by William O. Stoddard

But if the theory of primitive purity is untenable, not less so is that of innate depravity.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander

Ureæ nitras , L. Prep.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

God used Pharaoh's foolish wisdom, as He had used natural laws, to prepare for the Exodus.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

“But, after all,” I said, “that concerns us no longer.”
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

The post office was under no legal obligation to carry them except as letters, and yet there was no other means available for their circulation.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

27 and 28, collecting there in a pool worthily named by Brower the Upper Nicollet l., after the keen-eyed geographer who first spied and mapped it in connection with his immortal discovery of the Mississippian Verum Caput.
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 1 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Upham sta., N. M., 636 Upper Canada, xxiii , lxxvi , lxxxviii , cii Upper cañon of S. Platte r., 466 Upper chain, 15 Upper chain of Rock r., 25 Upper Cottonwoods, 688 Upper crossing of Ark. r., 439 Upper Ford, Tex., 645 Upper Fox r., 295 , 300 , 301 Upper Gravel r. , 376 , 377 Upper Iaway r., 48 Upper Iowa r. , 42 , 44 , 45 , 48 , 206 , 305 , 307 , 308 , 339 , 342 Upper l., near Red Wing, Minn., 70 Upper Nicollet l., 165 Upper or Eleven Mile cañon, 466 Upper Pajarito, N. M., 626 Upper Pimas, 735 Upper Red Cedar l. , xlviii , 153 , 157 , 158 , 159 , 323 , 326 , 351 , 356 Upper Red r. of Pike, 535 Upper Rio Grande, 474 Upper St. Croix l., 72 , 309 , 310 Upper St. Croix r., 309 Upper Zumbro outlet, 61 Uraba was a name of Taos Ures, 773 Usawa, Usaw-way l., 162 , 331 Usaya, 744 Utah, 630 , 731 , 732 , 733 , 734 , 735 , 736 Utah Inds., 508 , 535 , 537 , 591 , 618 , 744 , 746 , 849 , 850 Utah l., 738 949 Ute cr., 494
— from The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Volume 3 (of 3) To Headwaters of the Mississippi River Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7. by Zebulon Montgomery Pike

Case of John Makran.—John Makran and Alfius Bampa (the witness) are unarmed natives living near Warmbaths, north of Pretoria.
— from The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct by Arthur Conan Doyle