Both “deuce” and “dickens” are vulgar old synonyms for the devil; and “zounds” is an abbreviation of “God’s wounds,”—a very ancient oath.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Hence also CONCHIS, beans or peas cooked “in the shell” or in the pod; and diminutives and variations: CONCHICLA FABA, (bean in the pod) for CONCHICULA, which is the same as CONCHIS and CONCICLA; ℞ 194-98 , 411 .
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Then, as her mother was an invalid, she would clean the house from top to bottom and do a vast amount of necessary work.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The establishment of Bethels in most of our own seaports, and in many foreign ports frequented by our vessels, where the gospel is regularly preached and the opening of "Sailors' Homes," which I have before mentioned, where there are usually religious services and other good influences, are doing a vast deal in this cause.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

and the bride’s father, Pyotr Leontyitch, wearing a top-hat and the uniform of a teacher, already drunk and very pale, kept craning towards the window, glass in hand and saying in an imploring voice: “Anyuta!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[Reads] 'The duke yet lives that Henry shall depose; But him outlive, and die a violent death.'
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He was born in 1612, and died a voluntary exile in Belgium, 1694.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

“Assuredly, Doctor Mackshane,” said the first mate, “with submission, and deference, and veneration, to your superior apilities, and opportunities, and stations, look you, I do apprehend, and conjure, and aver, that there is no occasion nor necessity to smite off this poor man's leg.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Up, and a while at the office, but thinking to have Mr. Povy’s business to-day at the Committee for Tangier, I left the Board and away to White Hall, where in the first court I did meet Sir Jeremy Smith, who did tell me that Sir W. Coventry was just now sent to the Tower, about the business of his challenging the Duke of Buckingham, and so was also Harry Saville to the Gate-house; which, as [he is] a gentleman, and of the Duke of York’s bedchamber, I heard afterwards that the Duke of York is mightily incensed at, and do appear very high to the King that he might not be sent thither, but to the Tower, this being done only in contempt to him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Dr. Zimmermann, Secretary of State of the German Foreign Affairs Department; Admiral von Holtzendorff, Chief of the German Naval Staff; Count Czernin, Imperial and Royal Minister for Foreign Affairs; Count Tisza, Royal Hungarian Prime Minister; Count Clam-Martinic, Imperial and Royal Prime Minister; Admiral Haus, the German naval attaché in Vienna; Baron von Freyburg, the Imperial and Royal naval attaché in Berlin; Count B. Colloredo-Mannsfeld.
— from In the World War by Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria, Graf

The Rain Water Doctor worked wondrous miracles, and did a vast and lucrative business until he was unluckily drowned in a hogshead of his own medicine at his own door.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

One of the kivas has, in place of a deflector and ventilator shaft, a small rectangular walled enclosure surrounded by a wall, recalling structures on the floor of the kivas of Sun Temple.
— from Mesa Verde [Colorado] National Park by Anonymous

Annamikens (Little Thunder), a Chippewa of mixed blood, from Red River, expressed a wish to speak, preparatory to his return, and drew a vivid outline of his various journeys on the frontier, and his intercourse with the Hudson's Bay and Canadian governments.
— from Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

"And it is said she dances elegantly, as do all Virginians.
— from A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda M. Douglas

Delays are dangerous and vexatious, and to secure expedition and favorable action, there is nothing so good as money.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

After the cutting season, a cutaway harrow run twice diagonally across the rows loosens up the soil and destroys a vast number of weeds without injury to the crowns, although some spears may be broken off.
— from The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant by Anonymous

Vanadinite, a lead-vanadate, and descloizite, a vanadate of copper or lead, are found in the oxide zones of a number of lead and copper deposits in the southwestern United States and Mexico.
— from The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith

Desmond himself came to Sidney at Dungarvan, and ‘very humbly offered any service that he was able to do to her Majesty.’
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell