It was the creation of such worlds as these that seemed to Dorian Gray to be the true object, or amongst the true objects, of life; and in his search for sensations that would be at once new and delightful, and possess that element of strangeness that is so essential to romance, he would often adopt certain modes of thought that he knew to be really alien to his nature, abandon himself to their subtle influences, and then, having, as it were, caught their colour and satisfied his intellectual curiosity, leave them with that curious indifference that is not incompatible with a real ardour of temperament, and that, indeed, according to certain modern psychologists, is often a condition of it.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Longfellow in his voluminous works seems to me not only to be eminent in the style and forms of poetical expression that mark the present age, (an idiosyncrasy, almost a sickness, of verbal melody,) but to bring what is always dearest as poetry to the general human heart and taste, and probably must be so in the nature of things.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But, that our practical Utilitarian reasonings must necessarily be rough, is no reason for not making them as accurate as the case admits; and we shall be more likely to succeed in this if we keep before our mind as distinctly as possible the strict type of the calculation that we should have to make, if all the relevant considerations could be estimated with mathematical precision.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

a. terminating Terfynoldeb, n. finitness Terfynu, v. to limit; to end Terfysg, n. tumult Terfysgol, a. tumultuous Terfysgedd, n. tumultuousness Terfysgiad, n. making a tumult Terfysglyd, n. apt to be riotous Terfysgu, v. to raise a tumult Teri, v. to grow sullen, to sulk Teriad, n. irritation Terica, v. to irritate, to rut Terig, a. ardent; harsh; rutting Terigiad, n. a making ardent Term, n. crisis; term Termio, v. to term; to tipple Termudo, v. to grow silent Termudrwydd, n. taciturnity Tern, a. ardent, vehement Terniad, n. a moving ardent Terogen, n. female miser Terogi, v. to be full of avidity Têru, v. to clear, to refine Teru, v. to pout, to sulk Terwyn, a. ardent, fervent Terwynder, n. vehemency Terwyniad, n. a growing ardent Terwynu, v. to grow ardent Teryddiad, n. a grewing ardent Teryg, n. what is clotted; crust Terylliad, n. a glancing ardently Tes, n. sunshine, warmth, heat Tesach, n. heat; wantonness Tesaint, n. a teeming with heat Tesiad, n. a dispensing of heat Tesog, a. sunny, hot, close, sultry Testun, n. theme, subject, text Testuno, v. to set a theme Teth, n. a teat, a dug, a pap Tethan, n. a small teat Tethog, a. having teats Tethu, v. to grow to a teat Teulu, n. family, tribe Teuluaeth, n. domestic society Teuluaidd, a. domestic, familiar Teuluedd, n. familiarity Teulueiddio, v. to domesticate Teuluwriaeth, n. domestic order Teuluyddes, n. a housewife Tew, a. thick, fat, plump Tewâd, n. a thickening Tewâu, v. to thicken, to fatten Tewder, n. thickness; fatness Tewdws, a. thickly collected Tewi, v. to keep silent Tewlyd, a. apt to grow thick Tewychiad, n. a thickening Tewychiant, n. thickeness Tewychu, v. to thicken Tewyn, n. a firebrand Teyrn, n. a sovereign Teyrnas, n. a kingdom Teyrnasiaeth, n. a reign Teyrnasol, a. of a kingdom; regnant Teyrnasu, v. to reign Teyrnedd, n. a monarchy Teyrn-ged, n. a tribute Teyrnogaeth, n. a kingly office Teyrnoldeb, n. regality Teyrnwialen, n. a sceptre Ti, n. what is in; what is distinct: pron.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Returning, Seth found Adam dead, and planted the branch in his grave.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

This is one of the few cases in politics in which it is better that the people should act directly and personally than through their representatives, being almost the only case in which the errors that a person exercising authority may commit can be better borne than the consequences of making him responsible for them.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Upon the ships thus decked a band Of young and lovely girls shall stand, Rich in each charm that wakes desire, And eyes that burn with amorous fire; Well skilled to sing, and play, and dance And ply their trade with smile and glance Let these, attired in hermits' dress, Betake them to the wilderness, And bring the boy of life austere A voluntary captive here.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

God, instead of pronouncing in the plain and beautifully simple old English way, G-O-D , they drawl out into GORDE or GAUDE ; and Lord, instead of speaking in the proper way, they desecrate into LOARD or LOERD ,—lingering on the u , or the r , as the case may be, until an honest hearer feels disgusted, and almost inclined to run the gauntlet of beadles and deacons, and pull the vulgar preacher from his pulpit.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Now the two men were standing again and had each other by the waist, straining and dragging and pulling towards the brink of the precipice.
— from The Strange Story Book by Mrs. Lang

The following is an extract from their instructions under which they acted:— "The President is strongly impressed with the belief that the agreement which shall be best calculated to enable the Indians to become self-supporting is one which shall provide for their removal, at as early a day as possible, to the Indian Territory.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

His views and his mind were developing fast, and he was also developing a power to which we owe some of his best work—depth of vision.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

For two hundred years—from the time of the navigator Drake, who almost claimed it as a discovery, and placed the English name of New Albion upon it—the eye of England has been upon California; and the magnificent bay of San Francisco, the great seaport [692] of the North Pacific Ocean, has been surveyed as her own.
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

Ought Reuben Butler in conscience to accept of this preferment in the Kirk of Scotland, subject as David at present thought that establishment was to the Erastian encroachments of the civil power?
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

They who contend for the ancient custom of keeping the auxiliaries distinct, and parsing them as primary verbs, are, by the same principle, bound to extend their dissecting-knife to every compound word in the language .
— from English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Accompanied by a compendium, embracing a new systematic order of parsing, a new system of punctuation, exercises in false syntax, and a system of philosophical grammar, in notes, to which are added an appendix and a key to the exercises : designed for the use of schools and private learners by Samuel Kirkham

I recalled certain incidents in connection with the man’s work as a detective, and, placing them by the side of the seemingly accidental drowning, I became convinced that a deliberate crime had been committed.
— from Anarchy and Anarchists A History of the Red Terror and the Social Revolution in America and Europe; Communism, Socialism, and Nihilism in Doctrine and in Deed; The Chicago Haymarket Conspiracy and the Detection and Trial of the Conspirators by Michael J. Schaack

"Peste! is it a duke and peer that you work for, my friend?"
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock