Altogether a western, autochthonic phase of America, the frontiers, culminating, typical, deadly, heroic to the uttermost—nothing in the books like it, nothing in Homer, nothing in Shakspere; more grim and sublime than either, all native, all our own, and all a fact.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Wherefore, ere I commend you to God, I conjure you, by that love and that friendship that is between us, that you remember you of me and if it be possible, ere our times come to an end, that, whenas you have ordered your affairs in Lombardy, you come at the least once to see me, to the end that, what while I am cheered by your sight, I may then supply the default which needs must I presently commit by reason of your haste; and against that betide, let it not irk you to visit me with letters and require me of such things as shall please you; for that of a surety I will more gladly do them for you than for any man alive.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

( b. ) locō , instead ; numerō , in the category , both with a genitive.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Once when I was a young boy living in Nazareth, I had a playmate who had that influence over me and all the boys he played with.
— from Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

In y e Shoppe, 4 oz. & ½ of Bobbing lace, 6 s. 4 d. "— Ibid. "Bobbin" lace is noted in the Royal Inventories, but not so frequently as "bone."
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

“I remember seein' a Husshon once that—” “Perhaps you ain't one to observe closely, Abel,” said Timothy, not taking note of any interruption, simply using the time to direct a stream of tobacco juice to an incredible distance, but landing it neatly in the exact spot he had intended.
— from The Story of Waitstill Baxter by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

In striking contrast with those children of nature were the men of California, with iron nerves and dauntless courage, in whose characters vice lost half its evil by losing, if not its grossness, all its meanness; men who "deemed no crime, or curse, or vice as dark as that of cowardice."
— from By-Ways of War: The Story of the Filibusters by James Jeffrey Roche

The biological law is not individual completeness; it is individual suitability to environment.
— from On Mr. Spencer's Data of Ethics by Malcolm (Writer on Herbert Spencer) Guthrie

Being lately in Norfolk, I discovered that the rustics belonging to the part of it in which I was staying, particularly regarded a kind of fossil-stone, which much resembled a sea-egg petrified, and was found frequently in the flinty gravel of that county.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 285, December 1, 1827 by Various

In reply to this my mental ejaculation, my guide said: "Can not you perceive that the darkness is becoming less intense?" "No," I answered, "I can not; night is absolute."
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

A man brought long iron nails in a basket.
— from I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger

There [pg 141] is a confusion in the terminology here: to save energy that would otherwise be lost is not identical with recovering energy that has once been used.
— from Reformed Logic A System Based on Berkeley's Philosophy with an Entirely New Method of Dialectic by D. B. McLachlan