Evidence has already been adduced to show that they were at any rate printed with his sanction.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

He met my cousin Angela in the larder last night, and a rather painful interview ensued."
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

chile , m. ( Sp. A. ), American red pepper.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I was not sure whether I had kept my secret from being perceived by Arowhena herself, but none of the others suspected me, so she was set upon me to get me to open an account, at any rate pro formâ , with the Musical Banks; and I need hardly say that she succeeded.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

[Pg 201] The flesh of the coon is palatable, but verily there is nothing in all butcherdom so delicious as a roasted 'possum.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

An attempt to facilitate his escape, by digging a mine under the tent, provoked the Mogul emperor to impose a harsher restraint; and in his perpetual marches, an iron cage on a wagon might be invented, not as a wanton insult, but as a rigorous precaution.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There might have been [ 16 ] noticed in his frank, pleasant face some faint traces of Spanish blood showing through a beautiful brown color, slightly flushed at the cheeks as a result perhaps of his residence in cold countries.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

These indeed were too many to be sent out as a reconnoitring party, and not adapted for speedy retreat; but they were by no means a sufficient force to keep back those of the enemy who had not yet got across, as well as to attack those who had already landed.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

bōt f. help, relief, advantage, remedy , An, Da, Lcd ; AO: compensation for an injury or wrong , LL (v. 2·336): ( peace ) offering, recompense, amends, atonement, reformation, penance, repentance , Bl ; CP.
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

A second attentive and regular perusal of the entire work, of the notes of the author, and of those which I had thought it right to subjoin, showed me how much I had exaggerated the importance of the reproaches which Gibbon really deserved; I was struck with the same errors, the same partiality on certain subjects; but I had been far from doing adequate justice to the immensity of his researches, the variety of his knowledge, and above all, to that truly philosophical discrimination ( justesse d'esprit ) which judges the past as it would judge the present; which does not permit itself to be blinded by the clouds which time gathers around the dead, and which prevent us from seeing that, under the toga, as under the modern dress, in the senate as in our councils, men were what they still are, and that events took place eighteen centuries ago, as they take place in our days.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"The Pettibone Name," by Margaret Sidney, as a realistic picture of New England rural society, has the details of a photograph.
— from The Pansy Magazine, February 1886 by Various

There was a sort of pungent freshness of scent abroad--and a rich pasture land on each side gave the most luxuriant appearance to the landscape.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

The clouds swept over at a rapid pace, yet there was no breeze; they were carried on an aerial current far above the earth.
— from Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies

Then, in the devil's name, drive on--we shall see," he shouted again from the carriage window, as the powerful Danish horses trotted away at a rapid pace towards the northern gate, from whence the shorter road, which, however, was scarcely visible in the darkness, led through the forest to Dahlitz.
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

—Webster. (3) As a relative pronoun.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

We intend here no assent to the early theory, or, at any rate, practice, of Wordsworth, who confounded plebeian modes of thought with rustic forms of phrase, and then atoned for his blunder by absconding into a diction more Latinized than that of any poet of his century.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

How could there be a party government, or, indeed, for long a government of any kind, by a ministry in which were such men as Aberdeen and Russell, Palmerston and Grahame, Gladstone and Clarendon, all pigging together in the same truckle-bed, to use Mr. Burke's figure concerning the mixture that was called the Chatham Ministry?
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Landing in the west of England in summer, and traveling thence to London, he of course saw evidences of great agricultural and rural plenty and wealth; and was soon obliged to abandon the account he had undertaken to keep—his arithmetic failing him on the first day.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 1 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

She was about sixty feet long, with a low cabin forward, a cockpit aft, and a raised place for the steersman amidship—a good-looking craft, and evidently very speedy.
— from The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales by Henry Van Dyke