“Your betrothed, “Valentine de Villefort.” “P.S.—My poor grandmother gets worse and worse; yesterday her fever amounted to delirium; today her delirium is almost madness.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Lilius Giraldus repeats many of her ceremonies: all affections of the mind were heretofore accounted gods, [2825] love, and sorrow, virtue, honour, liberty, contumely, impudency, had their temples, tempests, seasons, Crepitus Ventris, dea Vacuna, dea Cloacina , there was a goddess of idleness, a goddess of the draught, or jakes, Prema, Premunda, Priapus, bawdy gods, and gods for all [2826] offices.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Fransus, l. 3. de symbolis qui primus symbolum excogitavit voluit nimirum hac ratione implicatum animum evolvere, eumque vel dominae vel aliis intuentibus ostendere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Tragge Marte vapor di Val di Magra ch'e` di torbidi nuvoli involuto; e con tempesta impetuosa e agra sovra Campo Picen fia combattuto; ond'ei repente spezzera` la nebbia, si` ch'ogne Bianco ne sara` feruto.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Whether there were any Lizzies in the early Christian Church must be considered very doubtful, very doubtful.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

According to a third and very different version, Gudrun was not drowned, but was borne by the waves to the land where Jonakur was king.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

denoting vehemence or excess Diradd, a. without rank Diragfarn, a. without prejudice Diragfwriad, a. improvident; without predetermination Diragfyfyr, a. unpremedited Diragofal, a. improvident Diragor, a. without excellence Diragrith, a. without hypocrisy Diragwel, a. without foresight Diraid, a. unnecessary, useless Diran, a. without division Dirboen, n. extreme pain Dirboeni, v. to excruciate Dirchwant, n. ardent desire Dirchwant, profuse perspiration Dirdan, a. extremely distended Dirdra, n. an outrage Dirdynu, v. to pull extremely Dirddwys, extremely condensed Direb, n. a trite saying Direidi, n. mischievousness Direswm, a. irrational Dirfaint, n. extreme bulk Dirfarn, n. a harsh sentence Dirfawr, a. extremely large Dirfod, v. to be of necessity Dirganfod, v. to look earnestly Dirgariad, n. extreme love Dirgel, n. a secret place: a. secret, occult Dirgeledig, a. secreted, hidden Dirgeledigaeth, n. a mystery Dirgeledd, n. secrecy Dirgelfa, n. a secret place Dirgelgynghor, n. privy-council Dirgeli, n. secrecy, privacy Dirgeliad, n. a secreting Dirgelu, v. to secrete Dirgelwch, n. a secrecy Dirglwyf, n. extreme aching Dirglymu, v. to tie tightly Dirgrynu, v. to convulse Dirgwyn, n. extreme complaint Diriad, n. iteration; impulse Diraiad, a. mischievous Diried, a. unlucky; mischievous Diriedo, v. to become unlucky Dirinwedd, a. without virtue Dirio, v. to iterate; to urge Diriol, a. iterating; urgent Dirlais, n. an emphasis Dirmyg, n. irony; contempt Dirmygiad, n. a slighting Dirmygol, a. contemptuous Dirmygu, v. to contemn Dirmygus, a. contemptuous Dirnad, surmise, discernment; v. to surmise; to discern Dirnadiad, n. supposition Dirni, n. extremity, vivacity Dirnwyf, n. extreme vivacity Dirodres, a. without pomp Diroddef, v. to suffer greatly Dironi, v. to shed grain Dirperiad, n. a meriting Dirperu, v. to deserve Dirprwy, n. a supply Dirprwyad, n. a supplying Dirprwo, v. to supply Dirprwywr, n. one who supplies; an agent; an attorney Dirus, a. without starting Dirwaedd, n. an outcry Dirwaenu, v. to dissever Dirwan, a. extremely weak Dirwarthu, v. to cover Dirwasg, v. to press extremely Dirwen, n. a broad smile Dirwenu, v. to smile, to laugh Dirwest, n. abstinence, fast Dirwestfa, n. a fasting, a fast Dirwestu, v. to abstain, to fast Dirwgnach, a. without grumbling or murmuring Dirwy, n. penalty, a fine Dirwyad, n. a fining Dirwym, a. without restriction Dirwyn, n. violent passion Dirwyo, v. to fine Dirwyol, a. finable, penal Dirwystr, a. unobstructed Dirybudd, a. having no notice Diryfedd, a. not marvellous Diryfyg, a. unpresumptuous Dirym, a. without power; feeble Diryw, a. debased, degenerate Dis, a prefix synon.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

3. Give the present active imperative, singular and plural, of veniō , dūcō , vocō , doceō , laudō , dīcō , sedeō , agō , faciō , mūniō , mittō , rapiō .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Yet he does not seem to have led the life of a wandering singer, as did his famous contemporary, Walther von der Vogelweide; if Wolfram journeyed, as he probably did, it was rather in search of knightly adventures, he tells us: 'Durchstreifen muss Der Lande viel, Wer Schildesamt verwalten will,' and though fully conscious of his gift of song, yet he systematically exalts his office of knight above that of poet .
— from Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2) by Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century

Men like the Vicomte de Vogüé [65] depict the new generation as weary of negations, sick of the material positivism of their immediate predecessors, disgusted with "realism," which, as another recent writer defines it, "in thought is mere provincialism, in affection absolute egoism, in politics the deification of brute force; in the higher grades of society tyranny; in the lower, unbridled licence."
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Deuteronomy by Andrew Harper

Croker took a very different view, and maintained "that the good old English blank verse, the force of character expressed in the wretched mother ... argue a strength of conception, and vigour of expression capable of great things," etc.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Belshazzar's profane use of the Temple vessels (Dan. v. 2) with 1 Macc.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

But Charnisay in an elaborate memoir (Memoire Instructif) gives a very different version of this affair.
— from The Acadian Exiles : a Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir

Verb defective V. dep.
— from The Writer's Desk Book Being a Reference Volume upon Questions of Punctuation, Capitalization, Spelling, Division of Words, Indention, Spacing, Italics, Abbreviations, Accents, Numerals, Faulty Diction, Letter Writing, Postal Regulations, Etc. by William Dana Orcutt