Ramuan-nya lekar jantan tiga krat, sapanjang tapak orang yang sakit, sakat mengkarong tiga krat, kaki benang ’mas, mempulor bawang puteh, jintan hitam sadikit, jintan puteh, bawang merah, sabut pinang kotei, kem’nyan puteh; bakar, taroh dalam ponggong niyor jantan, champor ayer nasi sadikit, chonting-kan dahi dan sendi-sendi yang sakit itu, saperti kaki ayam.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Pathfinders of the West Laut Grosset & Dunlap Patriotic Citizenship Poor Boys Who Became Famous Sarah K. Bolton Crowell Poems of American Citizenship Brander Matthews Scribners Politics for Young Americans Charles Nordhoff American Book Co. Poor Richard's Almanac.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

These last would seem therefore to be merely such permissions to travel by the Government post-horses as are still required in Russia, perhaps in lineal derivation from Mongol practice.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Then, with assumed gravity, he said to the bereaved mother, "Sister, pray to the Lord that every dispensation of his divine will may be sanctified to the good of your poor needy soul!"
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

I am informed by Mr S. P. Rice that, when smallpox breaks out in a Hindu house, it is a popular belief that to allow strangers or unclean persons to go into the house, to observe festivals, and even to permit persons who have combed their hair, bathed in oil, or had a shave, to see the patient, would arouse the anger of the goddess, and bring certain death to the sick person.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.] FIRST SPIRIT: O thou, who plumed with strong desire Wouldst float above the earth, beware!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

But my special purpose is to remove odious provisions, and I have contented myself with words of repeal, in the hope of presenting the proposition in such a form as to unite the largest number of votes.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But how could Hook stand the tremendous dissipation to which he foolishly condescended? Here is a specimen of his way of living:— 'After a dinner given by Mr. Stephen Price, of Drury-lane Theatre, all the guests, with the exception of Cannon and Theodore Hook, having long since retired, the host, who was suffering from an incipient attack of gout, was compelled to allude pretty plainly to the lateness of the hour.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

She did not weep, but moaned so pitifully that it was distressing to listen to her.
— from Little Wolf: A Tale of the Western Frontier by Mary Ann Mann Cornelius

As soon as you have found your place in the book, and taken a fresh departure, the bonnet man sais, 'Please, Sir, a seat for a lady,' and you have to get up and give it to his wife's lady's-maid.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

During our absence in the Shenandoah Valley, the army under General Grant had been making steady progress in the siege of Petersburgh, and our war-worn brothers of the other corps showed upon their faces the marks of overwork.
— from Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865 by George T. (George Thomas) Stevens

"Will you be my sleeping partner for the first overnight trip that we take?"
— from The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin; Or, Paddles Down by Hildegard G. Frey

Bear me, some power, as far as the winds can blow, As ships can travel, or as waves can flow, To some lone island beyond the southern pole, Or lands round which pacific waters roll, There should oblivion stop the heaving sigh, There should I live at least with liberty.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau