"What precious moments," said he, "the courts of Naples and Vienna are losing!
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Her appearance, manners, and dress, and the very furniture of the room she inhabited, were all set before me, with rather more clearness and precision than I cared to see them; but, as I was not a very attentive listener, I could not repeat the description if I would.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

To be sure, the dialectic applicable to material processes and to human life is one in which the terms and the categories needed are still exceedingly numerous and vague: a little logic is all that can be read into the cataract of events.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In the third place, there are the natural philosophers who fought against the spirit of Newton and Voltaire, and, like Goethe and Schopenhauer, endeavoured to re-establish the idea of a deified or diabolised nature, and of its absolute ethical and symbolical meaning.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

A name for a part of Monmouthshire Gwentas, n. a high shoe Gwenu, v. to smile, simper Gwenwisg, n. a surplice Gwenwyn, n. venom, poison Gwenwynad, n. a poisoning Gwenwyndra, n. poisonousness; fretfulness Gwenwynig, a. poisonous Gwenwynllyd, a. poisonous; fretful Gwenwyno, v. to poison Gwenwynol, a. poisonous Gwenyd, n. felicity; bliss Gwenydiad, n. a making happy Gwenyddiad, n. felicity Gwenyddol, a. felicitous; amusing Gwenyn, n. the bees Gwenynen, n. a single bee Gwenynlle, n. a place for bees Gwenynllestr, n. a bee hive Gwenynog, a. abounding with bees Gweol, a. relating to weaving Gwep, n. a visage, a phiz Gwepa, n. the visage or look Gwepio, v. to make a long face Gwer, n. tallow, or suet Gwerchyr, n. a cover, a lid Gwerchyriad, n. a covering Gwerchyrio, v. to cover with a lid Gwerdd, a. green, verdant Gwerddon, n. a green spot Gweren, n. a cake of tallow Gwerin, n. the multitude: a. vulgar, or universal Gwerinad, n. a becoming general Gweriniaeth, n. democracy Gweriniaethol, a. democratic Gwerino, v. to spread out Gwerinol, a. universal; vulgar Gwerinos, n. the rabble, mob Gwerlas, n. a green meadow Gwerlin, n. pure, descent Gwern, n. a swamp; a mead; alder Gwernen, n. an alder tree Gwerol, a. tallowy; like suet Gwers, n. a verse, a lesson Gwersa, v. to tattle, to gossip Gwersig, n. a short lesson Gwersyll, n. encampment Gwersyllfa, n. site of a camp Gwersylliad, n. an encamp Gwersyllu, v. to encamp Gwerth, n. value, price; sale Gwerthadwy, a. salable, vendable Gwerthefin, a. sovereign Gwerthfawr, valuable, precious Gwerthfawredd, n. preciousness Gwerthiad, n. a selling, vending Gwerthiant, n. price; vendition Gwerthiog, a. precious, valuable Gwerthu, v. to sell, to traffic Gwerthyd, n. a spindle, axis Gwerthydaid, n. a spindle-ful Gwerthydu, v. to put on a spindle Gwerthyr, n. a fortification Gweru, v. to generate tallow Gweryd, n. sward; moss Gwerydiad, n. a swarding Gwerydre, n. cultivated land; an inhabited region Gwerydu, v. to sward; to grow moss; to til Gwerydwedd, n. the face of the earth Gwerydd, n. a spring; a youth Gweryddol, a. tending to spring Gweryddu, v. to spring; to wanton Gweryn, n. a worm, a bot Gweryriad, n. a neighing Gweryru, v. to neigh Gwes, n. what is moving Gwesgrydd, n. circumrotation Gwesgryn, n. agitation Gwesgrynu, to cause agitation Gwesod, n. departure Gwest, n. a visit Gwesta, v. to go visiting Gwestai, n. a visitor, a guest Gwesteiad, n. a visiting about Gwesteiaeth, n. act of visiting Gwestfa, n. lodging Gwestfil, n. a prowling animal Gwestiad, n. a visiting Gwestifiant, n. a visitor, a guest Gwestle, n. a place of entertainment Gwestledd, n. tumultuous state Gwestliad, n. a making a riot Gwestlog, riotous, tumultuous Gwestlu, v. to raise a tumult Gwestu, v. to lodge; to entertain Gwestwng, n. a going down Gwestyngu, v. to decline Gwestl, n. hurly-burly, riot Gwestr, n. a hitch, a noose Gwesu, v. to depart, to go out Gwesyn, n. a youth; a page Gwesyndod, n. servility Gwêu, v. to weave; to knit Gweuad, n. weaving; knitting Gweud, v. to say, to speak Gweuol, a. weaving; knitting Gweunblu, n. meadow-down Gweundir, n. meadow-land Gweurydd, n. a slave Gwew, n. purgency; a smart Gwewyr, n. pain, anguish Gwewyrlys, n. anise-seed Gwëydd, n. a weaver; loom Gwëyddes, n. a female weaver Gwëyadiaeth, n. weaver’s trade Gwg, n. a frown; glance Gwi, n. a sudden emotion Gwial, Gwiail, n. rods, twigs Gwiala, v. to gather twigs Gwialen, n. a rod; a perch Gwialenaid, n. length of a rod Gwialenffust, n. a flail-yard Gwialenod, n. stroke of a rod Gwialenodio, to beat with a rod Gwialffust, n. a flail rod Gwib, n. a serpentine course, a range; a drive Gwibad, n. a ranging about Gwiban, n. any sort of fly Gwibed, n. flies, gnats Gwibedyn, n. a fly Gwiber, n. a serpent; a viper Gwibfa, n. a wandering course Gwibiad, n. stroller, vagrant Gwibio, v. to rove, to gad Gwibiol, a. erratic, wandering Gwiblad, n. a flying about Gwibli, n. gadding, vagrance Gwiblo, v. to fly or gad about Gwiblu, n. band of vagrants Gwibwrn, n. a whirling eddy Gwica, v. to hawk or cry about Gwicawr, n. a hawker Gwiced, n. a wicket, a gate Gwich, n. a crash; a squeak Gwichad, n. a squeaking Gwichell, n. creaker, squeaker Gwichiad, Gwichiedyn, n. a periwinkle, or sea snail Gwichian, v. to keep squeaking or squealing Gwichydd, n. a stoat Gwichio, v. to creak Gwichydd, n. a stoat Gwichyll, n. a stoat Gwichyn, n. a stoat Gwid, n. a quick whirl Gwidd, a. dried, withered Gwiddan, n. a hag; a witch Gwiddiant, n. a withering Gwiddon, rotted particles; mites Gwiddoni, v. to dry rot; to breed mites Gwiddonog, a. having mites Gwif, n. a lever, a crow-bar Gwifrwym, n. a fulcrum Gwig, n. a nook, a cove Gwigfa, n. a cove, a retreat Gwing, n. a wriggle, a wince Gwinged, n. wriggling; wantonness Gwingiad, n. a wriggling Gwingo, v. to wriggle; to wince Gwingog, Gwingol, adj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

When first he suggested she should add Mellersh she had objected for the above reason, and after a pause—Mellersh was much too prudent to speak except after a pause, during which presumably he was taking a careful mental copy of his coming observation—he said, much displeased, "But I am not a villa," and looked at her as he looks who hopes, for perhaps the hundredth time, that he may not have married a fool.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

But, knowing how much changes and novelty and variety are liked with us, I see a wide field before me which may yet form an epoch.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The request is 'show me,' as if some visible manifestation were desired and expected, or, if not a visible, at least a direct perception of Jehovah's glory.'
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers by Alexander Maclaren

In the first cervical vertebra, or atlas, the anterior margin of the neural arch varies a little in wild specimens, being either nearly smooth, or furnished with a small supra-median atlantoid process; I have figured a specimen with the largest process ( a ) which I have seen; but it will be observed how inferior this is in size and different in shape to
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

And it was a boy, a tall pale Hollander and, as it now seems to me, certainly not a very attractive lad, whom I approached one bright summers eve wandering together in the starlight, with the proposition of eternal friendship.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

Blue-lips Collínsia multiflòra Lilac, blue, and pink Summer Northwest A very attractive little plant, smooth all over, about six inches tall, with toothless, light green leaves and pretty flowers, each over half an inch long.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

She thought that he was not a very ardent lover; but [Pg 276] then again business might prevent him; and then again, what business ought to detain a lover from the idol of his soul?
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

The purity and calmness of the air is the best calculated to allay the heat of a political feaver; the education of the two princesses might be successfully conducted under your eye and that of my Lady; and if you had resolution to determine on a residence, not a visit, at Lausanne, your worldly affairs might repose themselves after their late fatigues.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

But still they continued to increase and multiply and make the desert about them fertile and populated, still hoping to be strong enough to resist foreign domination, for they regarded the United States as such, and treated its laws, if not as null and void, at least as secondary to the commands of their prophet and priesthood, until one day in 1862 Pat Conner and his California Volunteers marched in from the Humboldt, and crossing the Jordan, despite the threats of the Mormon leaders, set up the United States flag at Camp Douglas.
— from Miss Dividends: A Novel by Archibald Clavering Gunter

At this the sisters burst out laughing so heartily that one of them sounded a bass note and voided a little water and Sister Ovide pointing to it on the floor, said— “You see there’s never wind without rain.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

It would need another volume as large as this to do justice to the subject which we find ourselves compelled to deal with in a single chapter.
— from Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts

She was not a very acute little person, neither was she over-sensitive by nature, but this sudden coldness on Sir Harry’s part was wounding and perplexing in the extreme.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey