A. D. 1559, John Alloysius, being sent from Geneva to preach in Calabria,
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

A term of ridicule applied to men who being under sentence of transportation, pretend illness, to avoid being sent from gaol to the hulks. TO LAG.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

while this man was alive he wasn’t noticed, while now when he is dead and given over to corruption we tremble before him as before some famous general or a bishop. .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It would not, he acknowledged, be a bad speculation for Guest & Co. to buy Dorlcote Mill, and carry on the business, which was a good one, and might be increased by the addition of steam power; in which case Tulliver might be retained as manager.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She lifted up her head and sighed, and believed she felt glad.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

A few days at Dresden in the spring weather satisfied them that Dresden was a better spot for general education than Berlin, and equally good for reading Civil Law.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

COOK, a term well known in the Bankruptcy Courts, referring to accounts that have been meddled with, or COOKED , by the bankrupt; also the forming a balance sheet from general trade inferences; stated by a correspondent to have been first used in reference to the celebrated alteration of the accounts of the Eastern Counties Railway, by George Hudson, the Railway King.
— 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

"I am better," said Fleda, gratefully.
— from Queechy, Volume II by Susan Warner

“But brave and good boys do not beat either women or dogs, and I hope you wish to be good as well as brave,” said Fanny gently.
— from Norman Vallery; or, How to Overcome Evil with Good by William Henry Giles Kingston

The peasants had kindly moved them to a better spot for grass.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

It is surrounded by an old wall, and some decayed towers, and is adorned by some fine Gothic spires, whose apparent magnitude is much increased by the elevated station on which they are placed.
— from Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Patrick Fraser Tytler

D. W. Hanna, a Michigan pedagogue who had come to Los Angeles in 1884 to open Ellis College on Fort Street near Temple—burned in 1888—established on September 2d, 1885, the Los Angeles College, a boarding school for girls, in a couple of buildings at the corner of Fifth and Olive streets.
— from Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark by Harris Newmark

All night long he did not undress himself, wrote two or three letters, burned two or three papers, got out a golden locket with the portrait of a black-browed and [Pg 132] black-eyed woman, with a bold, sensual face, gazed long at her features, and paced his chamber in thought.
— from The Diary of a Superfluous Man, and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

When Aelius fully understood the last resolution taken by his father-in-law, to defend the Catholics and their religion, he publicly appealed to the people of Tigré, and proclaimed that all who were disposed to embrace the Jesuitical faith might repair to the deluded Emperor, whilst those who held to the ancient belief should forthwith gather under his standard.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir