'The loss of Mary I must consider as comprehending the loss of Crawford and Fanny.' Edmund, you do not know me.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Men fired with poetical imagination frequently betook themselves to the cloister, and consecrated their lives to the ornamentation of a single sacred book destined for the monastery which gave them in exchange all the necessaries of life.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

According to early town records of Boston, Dorothy Jones was the first to be licensed to sell "coffee and cuchaletto," the latter being the seventeenth-century spelling for chocolate or cocoa.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

In this situation, and in this situation only, he may have what is called a character to lose.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

In other words, contact, as the first stage of social interaction, conditions and controls the later stages of the process.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Cow and calf , to laugh.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

After the taking of this Prize, they went to the little Island of Avis , with a Design to clean, and carried the Lucretia along with them, in order to heave down the Scowerer by her; but meeting there with a Sloop, the Pyrate gave Chace till the Evening, when she was within Gun-Shot of her; but fearing to lose Company with the Lucretia , who was a heavy Sailor, they left off, and saw her no more.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

"What can a clergyman think, Lord St. George, when the landlord of his parish writes letters against him to his bishop, maligning his private character, and spreading reports for which there is not the slightest foundation?" "Mr. Fenwick, is that the way in which you let bygones be bygones?"
— from The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope

A time had come when the rough path seemed smooth to the little pilgrim's feet, and flowers sprang up by the lonely wayside, and golden sunlight fell through the rifted clouds and crowned the little head with its blessing, and light and warmth crept into the chilled and desolate life, and made existence beautiful: a brief and joyful time, on which was written, as on all bright things of earth, those words of mournfulness unutterable: 'Passing away!'
— from Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

At a service held under a sycamore tree, the appointed preacher, Sammy Wather, was late; the crowd asked Cennick to take his place; and Cennick, after consulting the Lot, preached his first sermon in the open air.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

This, by placing all its citizens, at least [pg 166] during certain periods, on a level, and diffusing a general spirit of independence, took off those restraints of civility which are imposed by the dread of displeasing, and which can alone curb the licentiousness of ridicule.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

"It being," says the law, "one chief project of Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the Scripture by persuading from the use of tongues, to the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of our forefathers, in church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors.
— from American Institutions and Their Influence by Alexis de Tocqueville

He will henceforth covet, and cultivate, this life of holy "joy in the Lord always."
— from Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

The route taps civilization and crosses the last frontiers of progress.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Old newspapers are adduced to show how often the going judge of assize has complimented the grand-jury on the catalogue of crime; in a word, the whole population is ready to make oath that the county is little short of a terrestrial paradise, and that it is a district teeming with gentle landlords, pious priests, and industrious peasants, without a plague-spot on the face of the county, except it be the police-barrack, and the company of lazy vagabonds with crossbelts and carbines that lounge before it.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

"Have you never observed," said he, "the passion of all people for walking on the edge of a precipice, climbing a church tower, looking down from a battlement, or doing any one thing which gives them the nearest possible chance of breaking their necks?—then you can comprehend the performance of last night.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

Lord chief justice Holt declared, that although a bare conspiracy, or design to levy war, was not treason within the statute of Edward III., yet if the design or conspiracy be to kill, or depose, or imprison the king, by the means of levying war, then the consultation and conspiracy to levy war becomes high treason though no war be actually levied.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett