He eyed her sternly until she did attend, and then went on.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

These are great Reliefs to Nature, as they qualifie her for struggling with Hunger and Thirst, whenever any Distemper or Duty of Life may put her upon such Difficulties; and at the same time give her an Opportunity of extricating her self from her Oppressions, and recovering the several Tones and Springs of her distended Vessels.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Has any one fancied he could sit at last under some due authority, and rest satisfied with explanations, and realize, and be content and full?
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

What then if one of us should deliberate, and amid the strife of his two wills be in a strait, whether he should go to the theatre or to our church?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Boileau is of opinion, that they were in the nature of surnames, and repeated as such; for the Greeks having no names derived from their fathers, were obliged to add some other distinction of each person; either naming his parents expressly, or his place of birth, profession, or the like: as Alexander the son of Philip, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Diogenes the Cynic, &c. Homer, therefore, complying with the custom of his country, used such distinctive additions as better agreed with poetry.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Whatsoever doth happen in the ordinary course and consequence of natural events, neither the Gods, (for it is not possible, that they either wittingly or unwittingly should do anything amiss) nor men, (for it is through ignorance, and therefore against their wills that they do anything amiss) must be accused.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Diffyg anadl, shortness of breath Diffygiad, n. defection Diffygio, v. to be defective Diffygïol, a. defective, weary Diffyn, n. defence, guard Diffynadwy, a. defensible Diffynol, a. defensive Diffyniad, n. a defending Diffyniant, a. unprosperous Diffynu, v. to defend; to guard Dîg, n. passion; anger; ire: a. angry, displeased Digabl, a. uncalumniated Digadarn, a. not powerful Digae, a. unenclosed, unfenced Digaer, a. unwalled, unfortified Digaeth, a. unconfined Digaethiwed, a. unconfined Digainc, a. not having branches Digais, a. not seeking; negligent Digaled, a. not obdurate Digalon, a. heartless, dispirited Digalondid, n. heartlessness Digaloni, v. to dishearten Digaloniad, a. disheartening Digam, a. not bent Digamwedd, a. faultess Digamwri, a. void of iniquity Digar, a. not loved; forlorn Digarad, a. disregarded; forlorn Digarc, a. careless; unanxious Digarchar, a. unimprisoned Digardd, a. unstigmatised Digariad, a. unbeloved, forlorn Digaru, v. to cease loving Digas, a without hatred, unhated Diguer, n. anger, displeasure Diged, a. without treasure Digedenu, v. to remove nap Digeintach, a. without bickening Digel, a. not hidden, not secret Digelwydd, a. free from falsehood Digellwair, a. not joking Digen, a. without scales, or scurf Digenedl, a. without a family Digenfigen, a. without envy Digeraint, a. without kindred Digerdd, a. artless; songless Digerth, a. not imminent Digerydd, a. without rebuke Digiad, n. an angering Digib, a. having no husk Digig, a. without flesh, fleshless Digil, a. unreceding; firm Digilwg, a. without frown Digio, v. to offend, to anger Diglefyd, a. free from disease Digliw, a. incompact, deformed Diglod, a. without fame Digloff, a. not lame or halt Diglwyt, a. uninfected; sane Digllon, a. angry, wrathful Digllonder, n. wrathfulness Diglonedd, n. displeasure Diglloni, v. to be displeased Digoed, a. without wood Digofaint, n. anger, displeasure Digoll, a. without loss or lapse Digolled, a. free of loss, safe Digollediad, n. indemnification Digolledu, v. make good a loss Digon, a. & ad.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

He must be made familiar with each subject on many sides, and under several different aspects and analogies: he must have had before him objections with their refutation, and 397 the fallacious arguments which appear to prove the theorem, but do not really prove it: 95 he must be introduced to the principal counter-theorems, with the means whereby an opponent will enforce them: he must be practised in the use of equivocal terms and sophistry, either to be detected when the opponent is cross-examining him, or to be employed when he is cross-examining an opponent.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

On the contrary, he had every reason for preserving it—at least until some definite answer about the ransom.
— from The Finger of Fate: A Romance by Mayne Reid

As to the Ando-Peruvian region, several ethnic groups, using special dialects, are also found there, having no relation with the Quechuas.
— from The Races of Man: An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography by Joseph Deniker

As A’Dale and I had been up since daybreak, and actively engaged all the time, both of us felt very sleepy.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

Rev. Deodat Lawson (Deo-dat-um), a “God-given” cataplasm for the tumor of unrest, social discords, and animosities that had their rise in Bailey’s ministry!
— from A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe by M. V. B. Perley

And until she died, about an hour later, this, and this only, was the explanation which she would give.
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

It is out of our scope here to inquire into the shelling of the batteries of the daimio of Choshiu, at Shimonoseki, in turn by the Americans, British, French and Dutch, the men of Choshiu having fired upon some Dutch, American, and French vessels that had entered the straits against the prohibition of the Japanese.
— from The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea by Trumbull White

Speaking of the wedding-ring, it may be noted that formerly it was carefully preserved on a table for many purposes, as at Valledolino the whole dress is kept to be used some day as a shroud.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. by Various