Moreover, among persons of low degree, an inclination toward decency will hardly last long and will briefly give way to those inclinations which are habitual to bad men.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

It consists of a GARTER or a piece of list doubled, and then folded up tight.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

It would appear that the resident gentry and others occasionally gave and partook of little dinners at Mr. Miles', for which the charges are roughly minuted on some long, narrow pages of folded foolscap now lying before us.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

It consists of a “garter” or a piece of list doubled, and then folded up tight.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

If we exact these qualifications as essential, armory as a fact and as a science is a product of later days, and is the evolution from the idea of tribal badges and tribal means and methods of honour applied to the decoration of implements of warfare.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Then I called a council—that is to say in my thoughts—whether I should take back the raft; but this appeared impracticable: so I resolved to go as before, when the tide was down; and I did so, only that I stripped before I went from my hut, having nothing on but my chequered shirt, a pair of linen drawers, and a pair of pumps on my feet.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tipp never mounted the box of a stage-coach in his life; or leaned against the rails of a balcony; or walked upon the ridge of a parapet; or looked down a precipice; or let off a gun; or went upon a water-party; or would willingly let you go if he could have helped it: neither was it recorded of him, that for lucre, or for intimidation, he ever forsook friend or principle.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Although she could not have heard Mrs. Sherwood's exclamation of pity, she happened to look up at that instant, revealing a pair of large, dark, and appealing eyes.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

A New and Improved Edition of Moral and Interesting Epitaphs, and Remarkable Monumental Inscriptions in England and America, to which are added Poems on Life, Death, and Eternity.
— from Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Andrews

Richard Mead , an eminent English physician and patron of learning, died, aged 81.
— from The Every Day Book of History and Chronology Embracing the Anniversaries of Memorable Persons and Events in Every Period and State of the World, from the Creation to the Present Time by Joel Munsell

And that consciousness itself hangs and drifts about the region where the inner world and the outer world meet, much as a patch of limelight drifts about the stage, illuminating, affecting, following no manifest law except that usually it centres upon the hero, my Ego.
— from First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And just as our material bodies are the product of an age-long process of development repeated in embryo by every individual, so is this mental life a product of long development, and carries memories of this far-off process.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

“There's foolish pride and silly pride and pride of low degree; A better pride is honest pride, and that's the pride for me.”
— from The Adventures of Johnny Chuck by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess

Smith, who said he was a longshoreman, carried three big revolvers, three razors, two dirk knives, 200 rounds of ammunition, a marked deck of cards, a pair of loaded dice and two half pints of whisky.
— from Fame and Fortune Weekly, No. 801, February 4, 1921 Stories of boys that make money by Various

Pleasured by the artfulness of his own sophistry, he procured a provision of langues dorées , a comestible of which she was fond, found at Tiffany's the ruby and opal set in accordance with orders already given, and at two o'clock boarded the Newport express.
— from The Truth About Tristrem Varick: A Novel by Edgar Saltus