A Nameless Pirate of the Year 1510, accompanied with a parcel of Sixty or Seventy, arriv'd at Trinity-Island , which exceeds Sicile , both in Amplitude and Fertility, and is contiguous to the Continent on that side where it toucheth upon Paria , whose Inhabitants, according to their Quality, are more addicted to Probity and Vertue, than the rest of the Indians ; who immediately published an Edict, that all the Inhabitants should come and cohabit with them.
— from A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. by Bartolomé de las Casas

Meanwhile, something tells me that her prediction will be realized; I will try, at all events, to arrange that it shall be realized as late in life as possible.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

an express train, and the intense strain put upon a driver by such speed in the crowded streets of New York had proved at last too much for the youth.
— from Royal Highness by Thomas Mann

These flies are equally troublesome and tormenting in Sweden.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Citizens of the great Republic are expected to arrange themselves in seven Circles, viz.:
— from History of American Socialisms by John Humphrey Noyes

He knew that no society was august enough to abash them into silence, and so took care not to expose himself under very public circumstances to the irony of the one or to the brutal mocking of the other.
— from The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great family by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

[87] SECRECY AND EXCLUSIVENESS Heresy was an elastic term and the Inquisition stretched it to extend its exclusive jurisdiction in all directions.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea

And when Ralph asked if the said master would answer questions concerning the selling of men and of women, Clement smiled and said: "Yea, yea, he will answer; for as he lives by selling thralls, and every time a thrall is sold by him he maketh some gain by it, it is to his profit that they change masters as often as may be; and when thou askest of the woman whom thou art seeking, he will be deeming that there will be some new chaffer ahead.
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

Is it not because ye speak to the flesh which is at enmity to all that is spiritual and must die (joy is only from the spirit)?...
— from General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

This man was the representative of a society which cared for animals, such as stray dogs, and mistreated horses, and employed this agent to investigate such cases, but it seemed that occasionally he concerned himself with human beings.
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

History and song have hallowed the Valley of Wyoming, and every thing appertaining to it seems to be wrapped in an atmosphere of romance.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

The application of chains as an auxiliary has occupied much of my attention, and I am satisfied that the ordinary mode of applying them to suspension bridges is wholly inadmissible in the present instance; if, therefore, it be hereafter found necessary or desirable to employ them in conjunction with the tube, another mode of employing them must be devised, as it is absolutely essential to attach them in such a manner as to preclude the possibility of the smallest oscillation."
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles