I wish to stand by my own integrity, and not to shelter myself under the impropriety of another; and I trust the behaviour of the Commissioners of the Navy to me entitle me to make this assertion; for after I had been dismissed, March 24, I drew up a memorial thus: To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury: The Memorial and Petition of Gustavus Vassa a black Man, late Commissary to the black Poor going to Africa .
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

In allusion to a portion of Gourlay's famous work published in 1822, the extract is headed in McKenzie's Gazette "Robert Gourlay's 'Last Sketch' of Upper Canada.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

In this time (says the historian,) the woods began to rejoice that they were no longer infested with robbers; the oxen began to plough; the pilgrims visited the sanctuaries; the roads and inns were replenished with travellers; trade, plenty, and good faith, were restored in the markets; and a purse of gold might be exposed without danger in the midst of the highway.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And he, on the 7th of June, laying the first stone of the foundation, being brick, accompanied with some aldermen, every of them laid a piece of gold, which the workmen took up, and forthwith followed upon the same with such diligence, that by the month of November, in the year 1567, the same was covered with slate, and shortly after fully finished.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

They show us what we all were and thus appal us; but they are as little responsible on this account as is a piece of granite for being granite.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was received with great rejoicing, and the City voted the annual presentation of a pallium of gold brocade to the altar of the Virgin in the Church of St. Matthew, on every 8th of September, the Madonna's day, on the eve of which the Battle had been won.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And last bethought her how she used to watch, Near that old home, a pool of golden carp; And one was patched and blurred and lustreless Among his burnished brethren of the pool; And half asleep she made comparison Of that and these to her own faded self And the gay court, and fell asleep again; And dreamt herself was such a faded form Among her burnished sisters of the pool; But this was in the garden of a king;
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And if this is so, who cannot see what impious and irreligious consequences follow, such as that whatever one may trample, he must trample a part of God, and in slaying any living creature, a part of God must be slaughtered?
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

By heaps of gourds, and skins of wine, and piles of grapes.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Great care and practice are required to silver large plates, but any one by a few trials may succeed perfectly with a piece of glass a few inches square.
— from The Boy's Book of Industrial Information by Elisha Noyce

ristian philosophy; neither the spiritual substance nor the material accidents can operate alone but only in a conjunction so intimate that it is to all intents and purposes—that is, for the interests and purposes of God in human life—a perfect unity.
— from Towards the Great Peace by Ralph Adams Cram

They have likewise crowns; and though the office of herald is not of so much importance now as it was formerly, it is still considered a post of great honour and emolument.
— from The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science by Anonymous

The first is a large buck, running for dear life, closely followed by a pack of gaunt, hungry wolves, five in number, with their sharp-pointed ears laid back close to their heads, their tongues hanging out of their mouths, and their lips spotted with foam The flanks of the buck are dripping with blood from wounds made by their long teeth.
— from Frank, the Young Naturalist by Harry Castlemon

A pair of golden spurs?
— from Sir John Oldcastle by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Then a period of great cold supervened, and a different fauna succeeded the first.
— from African and European Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Middle Ages: position of goldsmiths, 14-18 ; impersonal spirit, 26 ; value of painting, 28 , 31 ; immobility of mind, 32 ; religious temper and intellectual life, 40 , 41 ; art, typical, 53 ; illustrated by Dürer, 92 ; by Maximilian’s works, 99-105 ; by the Dance of Death, 121 .
— from A History of Wood-Engraving by George Edward Woodberry

How happy I am in accepting all the will and providence of God!
— from Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner by A. L. (Andrew L.) Byers

A piece of gold had left my purse, Which I had guarded ill; I feared a lack, but feared yet worse Regret returning still.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

The jests of the clown had some effect in tranquillizing the Duke's angry mood—he laughed loudly, threw the jester a piece of gold, caused himself to be disrobed in tranquillity, swallowed a deep cup of wine and spices, went to bed, and slept soundly.
— from Quentin Durward by Walter Scott