These are therefore to certify and declare, that the said Captain Peter Solgard is hereby admitted, received and allowed a Freeman and Citizen of the said City of New-York, to have, hold, enjoy and partake of all and singular Advantages, Benefits, Liberties, Privileges, Franchises, Freedoms and Immunities whatsoever, granted or belonging to the same City : In Testimony thereof, the said Mayor hath hereunto subscribed his Name, and caused the Seal of the said City to be affix’d the 25 th Day of July, in the ninth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith , &c. Anno.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

By and by to Burgess, and did as much as we could with him about our Tangier order, though we met with unexpected delays in it, but such as are not to be avoided by reason of the form of the Act and the disorders which the King’s necessities do put upon it, and therefore away by coach, and at White Hall spied Mr. Povy, who tells me, as a great secret, which none knows but himself, that Sir G. Carteret hath parted with his place of Treasurer of the Navy, by consent, to my Lord Anglesey, and is to be Treasurer of Ireland in his stead; but upon what terms it is I know not, but Mr. Povy tells it is so, and that it is in his power to bring me to as great a friendship and confidence in my Lord Anglesey as ever I was with [Sir] W. Coventry, which I am glad of, and so parted, and I to my tailor’s about turning my old silk suit and cloak into a suit and vest, and thence with Mr. Kinaston (whom I had set down in the Strand and took up again at the Temple gate) home, and there to dinner, mightily pleased with my wife’s playing on the flageolet, and so after dinner to the office.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I reached St. Louis October 17th, and found the partners engaged in liquidating the balances due depositors as fast as collections could be forced; and, as the panic began to subside, this process became quite rapid, and Mr. Lucas, by making a loan in Philadelphia, was enabled to close out all accounts without having made any serious sacrifices, Of course, no person ever lost a cent by him: he has recently died, leaving an estate of eight million dollars.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He reached Vaśishṭha's pure abode, Where trees, and flowers, and creepers glowed, Where troops of sylvan creatures fed; Which saints and angels visited.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He was a tall, handsome, swarthy fellow, clad in a suit of gray flannel, with a Panama hat, a bristling black beard, and a great, aggressive hooked nose, and flourishing a cane as he walked.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But about three o’clock a ferocious and prolonged hooting outside drove us to the window, to see Poirot alighting from a car, accompanied by Japp and Summerhaye.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

At this time there were only two men who habitually dined with him: a young zoologist called Von Koren, who had come for the summer to the Black Sea to study the embryology of the medusa, and a deacon called Pobyedov, who had only just left the seminary and been sent to the town to take the duty of the old deacon who had gone away for a cure.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He was able to disconcert Lætorius by arguing fluently and contemptuously concerning the right.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[451] Thus, among the Arunta, frogs are connected with the totem of the gum-tree, because they are frequently found in the cavities of this tree; water is related to the water-hen; with the kangaroo is associated a sort of parrot frequently seen flying about this animal (Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr. ,
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I could only conceive this singular behavior to arise from a consummate self-conceit assuming the vulgar airs of patronage and protection.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

The Bible says a man should leave mother and father and cleave to his wife.
— from Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Suppose we just head straight for Kandavu Island in the Fijis, and scheme around for a cargo of black coral?
— from Captain Scraggs; Or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

“A most unfailing experience (as far as can be hoped in natural phenomena), of the excitement of sublunary nature by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.”
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 3 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

A cobbler made a fourth, then two apprentices from a cloth-merchant attached themselves, then a fishwife and a tow-headed newsboy.
— from In the Name of Liberty: A Story of the Terror by Owen Johnson

Miss Harlowe, as fine a child as she is, must have done something, must have said something, (you know how they loved her,) to make them treat her thus.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1 by Samuel Richardson

The episode deals with an easy-mannered gentleman named Potts, who was the agent for a certain Major Colfax of Virginia.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

So the convention cast aside the provision of the Articles of Confederation which required unanimous approval for any change in the plan of government; it decreed that the new Constitution should go into effect when ratified by nine states.
— from History of the United States by Mary Ritter Beard

" "But they are friends and companions," said a young padwar, "for this Turan inquired of me concerning these two, calling them by name and saying that they were his friends.
— from The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

He showed that Murat wasted lives by useless attacks upon the Russians, for the sake of gaining a few acres of ground, although it invariably happened that the enemy left the ground of their own accord, whenever a sufficient force came up with them; that Murat was in the constant habit of losing men by slaughterous follies in the front to no purpose, after which he began to think of the propriety of reconnoitering; that he kept the whole of the advanced guard in a state of restless activity during sixteen hours of the twenty-four, with no cause, and finally chose the worst quarters for the night; so that the soldiers, instead of taking their food and rest, were groping about for provisions and forage, and calling to each other in the dark, in order to find their way back to the bivouacs: and that the king did nothing else but storm and rage through the ranks, and then ride close to the enemy’s lines in all directions.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

at, Box plants, Brada (mountain), Bread, " arrival of, Brêche d'Allanz, " Fausse, " de Roland, Broussette, valley of, Bué, Bugaret (mountain), " torrent of, Burbe, valley of, Burnished toes, Butte du Trésor, Buvette de Minvieille, C. Cabaliros, the, Cabanes du Lys, Cagots, Cambo, " hotels at, Campan, Canine absurdity, " feat, a, Canton, odours of, Capercailzie, Capvern, " baths of, " hotels at, Carmelites, church of the (Bigorre), Carnival time (Pau), Cascade d'Arroudet, " de Cérizey, " du Coeur, " de Discoo, " des Eaux Bonnes, " d'Enfer, " du Groshêtre, " de Laressec, " de Lassariou, " du Lutour, " du Marboré, " de Montauban, " de Pisse-Arros, " de Rioumaou, " du Serpent, " de Sidonie, " du Valentin, Casino (Luchon), " (Pau), " du Portillon (Luchon), " de Roulette (Luchon), Castel-Géloos, Castel-Mouly, Castel-Vieilh (or Castelvieil) Castets, Catarabe, Cat-fight, Cauterets, " baths of, " excursions from, " Fruitière of, " Gorge of, " hotels of, Cazaril, Cazaux, Céciré (Bosost), " (Superbagnères), Cemetery, Luz, " Pau, Cercle des Etrangers (Barèges), Cérizey, cascade of, Chambre d'Amour (inn), Chamois,
— from 'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees by E. Ernest Bilbrough