Now then the King, seeing this great treason in his captain, deposed him of the thousand pounds of possessions, that is to say, from everlasting life in glory, and all his heirs and posterity: for likewise as he had the spirit of science and knowledge, for him and his heirs; so in like manner, when he lost the same, his heirs also lost it by him and in him.
— from Sermons on the Card, and Other Discourses by Hugh Latimer

He has written out the devil's own long speech in French and learnt it by heart, and is going to fire it off at the Congress to-morrow.
— from Collections and Recollections by George William Erskine Russell

Search should also be made for the eggs of the Canker worm and the American Tent caterpillar, which last are laid in bunches half an inch long on the terminal shoots of many of our fruit trees.
— from Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses by A. S. (Alpheus Spring) Packard

In going from the manger, he stumbled upon a kettle that happened to lie in the middle of the stable, which put Mary Anne upon picking it up, and laying it by her, as it might serve to melt the snow in for their drink, in case they should happen to be confined long enough to want that resource.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

What, then, was to be done except to plant anew the seeds 128 of the Law, and let it blossom here, as it had done before, and has since, on the soil of America?
— from The Way to the West, and the Lives of Three Early Americans: Boone—Crockett—Carson by Emerson Hough