The Lord General Cromwell, "Commander-in-chief of all the Forces raised and to be raised;" he hereby sees himself, at this unexampled juncture, as it were the one available Authority left in England, nothing between England and utter Anarchy but him alone.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

The conformation of these tools was still distinctly in keeping with the Moxon type and suggests that, at least in Europe, no remarkable change had yet occurred in the shape of planes.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

He says that it stands to reason that old families have done their spurt of work in past days, and can't have anything left in 'em now.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

ad this year Elest, n. flags, or sedges Elestr, n. flag; fleus de lys Elestren, n. flag; fluer de lys Elf, n. elementary principle Elfaeth, n. elementation Elfed, a. autumn Elfen, n. particle; element Elfeniad, n. elementation Elfenol, elemental, elementary Elfenu, v. to element Elfod, n. intellectual existence Ellyd, intellectual world Elfydd, n. elementary principle, earth, land Elfyddan, n. the earthly globe Elfydden, n. earth: region Elfyddu, v. to element Elff, n. pure state; a demon Elgain, a. supremely fair Elgeth, n. the chin, the jaw Eli, n. a salve, a plaister Eliad, n. a doing with salve Eliaw, v. to apply a salve Elin, n. angle; an elbow Elinad, n. a making an angle Elinaw, v. to angle; to elbow Elinawg, a. angular; jointly Elindys, n. caterpillars Elor, n. a bier; a hearse Elu, v. to move on: to go Elus, a. bounteous, charitable Elusen, n. bounty, alms Eluseraidd, a. of a charitable turn Elusendod, n. alms giving Elusendy, n. alms house Elusengar, a. charitable Elusengarwch, charitableness Eluseni, n. bounty, charity Elusenwr, n. an almoner Elw, n. goods, profit, gain Elwa, v. to get wealth; to trade Elwant, n. profit; lucre Elwch, n. shout of joy; joy Elwi, v. to turn to profit Elwig, a. tending to produce Elwl, n. the reins Elwlen, n. a kidney Elyd, n. what is fused Elydn, n. brass Elydraidd, a like brass, brassy Elydyr, n. brass, bell-metal Elyf, n. that glides: a. gliding Elyw, n. aloes, juice of aloes Ell, n. that is divided or outward; a. outward extreme Ellael, n. an eyebrow Ellaig, n. a pear Ellain, a. radiant, splendid Ellast, n. thistle Ellbwyd, n. famine; hunger Ellmyn, n. foreigners; Germans Elltrewen, n. gossip; stepmother Ellt, n. that is parted off Ellwedd, n. outward aspect Ellydd, n. a cutting off Ellyll, n. an elf or goblin Ellylldan, n. ignis fatuus Ellylles, n. a she goblin Ellyllyn, n. a little imp Ellyn, n. a cutter, a razor Ellynedd, n. the last year
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

One day Cunegonde, while walking near the castle, in a little wood which they called a park, saw between the bushes, Dr. Pangloss giving a lesson in experimental natural philosophy to her mother's chamber-maid, a little brown wench, very pretty and very docile.
— from Candide by Voltaire

Thrice Dido tried to raise her drooping head, And, fainting thrice, fell grov’ling on the bed; Thrice op’d her heavy eyes, and sought the light, But, having found it, sicken’d at the sight, And clos’d her lids at last in endless night.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

The bringing together of these two series of gametes must result in equal numbers of the four kinds of zygotes FfGg , Ffgg , ffGg , and ffgg , i.e. of female grossulariata and lacticolor , and of male grossulariata and lacticolor in equal numbers.
— from Mendelism Third Edition by Reginald Crundall Punnett

They're all living in Europe now, buying villas and things out of the money the Company makes.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

All that is necessary for the reader to note is, that the amount returned is at least in equity not to be less than the amount given.
— from Unto This Last, and Other Essays on Political Economy by John Ruskin

"Maestro mio!" cried Marcantonio at length, in ecstasy; "none among us may learn the marvel of thine art!"
— from A Golden Book of Venice by Turnbull, Lawrence, Mrs.

; and Cardinal Pole, after he had been compelled to leave England because he resisted Henry VIII.'s 581 proceedings with the temporalities of the Church, was appointed legate in England, not upon the motion of the Pope, but at the desire of Queen Mary.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

The problem which Winnie's imagination had forecasted did not arise—or at least it exhibited no development.
— from Mrs. Maxon Protests by Anthony Hope

FOOTNOTES: [1] Regnum Congo: hoc est Vera Descriptio Regni Africani quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus Appellatur , per Philippum Pigafettam, olim ex Edoardo Lopez acroamatis lingua Italica excerpta, num Latio sermone donata ab August.
— from Man's Place in Nature, and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Yet for all the poor quality of the motives which furnish Isabel's moral stuffing, The Portrait of a Lady is entirely n successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.
— from Henry James by Rebecca West

And so the Christian Faith also, as a system of belief and action, that is, as embracing the mind and the will of man, as giving both Truth and Life, is entirely new in this respect; that in this double action it is in its origin and in its whole course and maintenance bound up with a Person.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies